A group of 154 overseas Filipino workers, accompanied by 12 family members, completed their repatriation journey from Kuwait on April 9, 2026, touching down at NAIA Terminal 3 aboard a Gulf Air flight.
Rather than flying directly out of Kuwait, the workers crossed overland into Dammam, Saudi Arabia before boarding their flight to Manila — a routing facilitated by Philippine government agencies coordinating across borders.
The Migrant Workers Office of the Department of Migrant Workers, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, and the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait jointly supported the group’s departure, covering document processing, transportation, meals, and financial assistance.
DMW Secretary Hans Leo J. Cacdac, whose agency led a whole-of-government reception team at the airport, framed the operation as part of a broader mandate handed down by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. “We will continue to bring home those who feel that they need to come home,” Cacdac said, citing the President’s directive to ensure both the safe return and orderly reintegration of Filipinos caught in the Middle East turmoil.
The arrivals add to the ongoing stream of OFWs being pulled out of conflict-affected areas in the region, with government teams remaining deployed at NAIA to process returning workers as flights continue to land.
