You can be an overseas Filipino worker but not in any of the 24 countries as identified by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.
In an advisory, POEA made the ban on deployment mainly due to safety and security conditions as well as economic situation in the countries identified.
Countries where deployment ban is imposed due to unstable security:
Afghanistan
Somalia
Sudan (except Khartoum and the Kenana Sugar Plantation in the White Nile)
Rwanda
Burundi
Iraq
Syria
Yemen
Chechnya
Countries where only OFWs with existing employment contract are allowed to return:
South Sudan
Libya
Ukraine
Country with poor working condition and local economic situation
Palau (specific ban for domestic workers)
Countries not certified by the Department of Foreign Affairs
Afghanistan
Chad
Cuba
North Korea
Haiti
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Palestine
Somalia
Zimbabwe
South Sudan.
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