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New York Consulate announces new regulation allowing Filipino professionals located abroad to register with PRC

PHILIPPINE CONSULATE - NEWS RELEASE
15 February 2007

NEW YORK --- The Philippine Consulate General in New York is informing new Filipino professionals who left for abroad immediately after taking their board exams or before the board exam results were released, that the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) now allows them to register with PRC through their duly authorized representatives. Previously, board passers were required to personally register at the PRC main office in Espana, Manila.

In a resolution issued by the PRC (Resolution No. 2006-313), the Commission has allowed the registration of new Filipino professionals located outside the Philippines, subject to the following terms and conditions:

* First, the new registrant shall fill up personally the oath form required by the Commission and shall personally take his/her professional oath before any officer authorized to administer oaths at the Philippine Embassy or Consulate of the country where he/she is situated;

* Second, the registrant shall designate his/her representative in the Philippines and shall execute the necessary Special Power of Attorney which shall also be executed under oath, preferably before the same Philippine Consulate official who administered his/her professional oath;

* Third, in said Power of Attorney, the new registrant should expressly declare that his/her representative/Attorney-in-Fact is fully authorized for and in his/her behalf to accomplish, sign and execute documents as well as do and perform all acts and things which are necessary, proper, or incidental to his/her registration; and

* Fourth, the professional concerned shall come to the Commission as soon as he/she arrives from abroad and personally sign the Registry Book of Professionals.

Consul General Cecilia Rebong said that “the new PRC regulation is a big help to Filipino professionals since they no longer have to take that expensive trip back to the Philippines just to complete their PRC registration.” “The regulation is also a time-saving measure especially for those who may have found work and cannot take a leave of absence from their bosses,” she added.