Kuwait frees Filipino drivers in rescue

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Kuwait frees Filipino drivers in rescue

150 undocumented OFWs flying home

Malacañang said the meeting also "guaranteed that all remaining undocumented Filipinos…except those with pending cases, will be allowed to go home."

Malacañang said at least 150 of these undocumented Filipinos "will be joining the Philippine officials in returning to the Philippines."

The meeting comes after Kuwait expelled Philippine Ambassador Renato Villa due to the allegedly illegal rescues of OFWs in Kuwait. The Kuwaiti government had also protested a video of these OFW rescues, which came from the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairsitself.

This crisis brought relations between the Philippines and Kuwait to their lowest point in years, with the welfare of 262,000 OFWs at stake.