Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 15) — The Philippine Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden is open once again after an eight-year-long closure, the Department of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday.
The agency said the embassy will be providing consular services such as passport and visa extensions to Filipinos from Sweden and Finland, which were previously done in Oslo, Norway.
“The reopening of the Embassy…is the result of efforts of the landing team, which arrived in Sweden in late 2019,” said the DFA in a statement.
The embassy was closed back in 2018 due to “economic constraints,” the department added.
However, with the COVID-19 pandemic, strict measures will still be in place. Those who would like to avail of the embassy’s services would have to call ahead at +46-7253-5407 or email at stockholm.pe@dfa.gov.ph. Consular applications such as passport extension, visa and civil registry will only be available twice a week and passport renewals will still have to be done in Oslo.
The DFA said the embassy will accommodate requests on May 19 and 21 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.. Sweden is home to 15,000 Filipino workers while Finland hosts 4,000 of them, the agency added.
