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which is intended to help protect Filipinos going abroad against human trafficking and other dangers—despite the flak BI officers are getting from the public for their odd interrogation methods as revealed on social media.
IACAT is currently processing the revision of the departure formalities to “better reflect current trends and plug the gaps that arose along the way,” the DOJ said. “The profile of these victims poses a challenge to our implementation of the Departure Formalities, as many of them do not share the vulnerabilities of traditional victims of labor trafficking, such as those Filipinos exploited as domestic workers in the Middle East or fishers in the Asia-Pacific region,” the department stressed.
The rest were deferred for other reasons such as incomplete, improper, or misrepresented documents. Many of them would have also been vulnerable to human trafficking had they been allowed to depart, according to the agency.
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