PRESS RELEASE - 73- 2019

Consul Grace Anne Bulos poses with the Philippine Consulate General Hilo outreach team, Hilo County Immigrant Services personnel and Filipino community volunteers

30 September 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii – The Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu served over 200 clients during its second mobile consular mission in Hilo held on 28 and 29 September 2019.  The mobile team, headed by Consul Grace Anne G. Bulos and assisted by the Immigrant Services Division of Hilo County and Filipino community volunteers, processed 182 passport applications, 25 documents for notarization, and 8 reports on vital events.  Consul Bulos also administered the oath of allegiance to 21 applicants for retention and reacquisition of Philippine citizenship.

The Hilo mission is the ninth outreach service conducted by the Consulate General this year in areas under its jurisdiction.   END

Consul Grace Anne Bulos leads the oath takers in singing the Philippine National Anthem, their first act as newly sworn in Filipino citizens

Philippine Consulate General personnel attend to consular clients

One-month old Nathalie (not real name) was the youngest passport applicant during the Hilo mission