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Microfinance institutions
can facilitate remittances
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Microfinance refers to the provision of
financial services to low-income clients, including the
self-employed. It also refers to a movement that envisions “a
world in which as many poor and near-poor households as possible
have permanent access to an appropriate range of high quality
financial services, including not just credit, but also savings,
insurance, and fund transfers.”
Microfinance institutions can take the form of
cooperatives and other self-help groups, rural banks, and small
economic formations. They are now emerging as remittance channels
and can effectively play this role, as they are present in many
rural areas and poor people’s enclaves.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Villar seeks justice for
Pinay killed in Saudi Arabia
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Senate President Manny Villar is joining the call of migrant worker
support groups for the government to vigorously pursue the case of a
24-year-old Filipina who died, and is feared murdered, in Saudi
Arabia.
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Seaman to return home
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A Filipino seaman is to return home
after he was rescued after he jumped into the Mediterranean Sea
after a fight with another Filipino seafarer.
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Taiwan-based OFWs, MECO to host
biggest Independence Day fete ever
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More than a dozen Filipino associations in
Taiwan and the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) are
holding today the biggest Independence Day celebration ever to be
staged in Taipei, a top MECO official said.
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Foreign shipping firms need
more Pinoy seafarers
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SAN ANTONIO, Zambales: Foreign shipping
companies need more Filipino seafarers to address the looming crisis
brought about by the shortage of manpower in international maritime
industry, according to Transportation and Communications Secretary
Leandro Mendoza.
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IMMIGRATION
SOLUTIONS
By Atty. Robert L. Reeves
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USCIS brings back
I-140 premium processing for some
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The USCIS just announced that starting June 16, it will allow
certain I-140 immigrant visa petitions to be accepted by its premium
processing units. The expedited processing will allow an I-140 to be
approved in 15 calendar days or less. The USCIS is limiting the
I-140 premium processing to H-1B workers who are nearing the end of
their sixth year in H-1B status.
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