About 40,000 to 50,000 Filipino workers may be needed by the United States to construct its new military base in Guam, US Ambassador Harry Thomas said.
Reports said the transfer of US personnel to Guam from Okinawa, Japan is expected to start in 2012 while the additional active duty and dependents are anticipated to be fully relocated by 2014. The movement will require additional facilities for the incoming 23,000 military servicemen and their families.
“The US is getting ready to construct new bases in Guam. We expect 40,000 to 50,000 Filipinos to receive temporary visas to work in Guam for the construction of the bases,” Thomas told foreign correspondents during a news briefing.
According to Thomas, such plan would give thousands of Filipino jobseekers the opportunity to enter and work in the US territory legally.
“We always support legal immigration,” Thomas said.
Thomas said construction will start “sometime in the future,” however, no specific date has been set by the US government.
While waiting for a go signal from the US, the Philippine government has warned Filipinos against accepting certain job offers to Guam from unscrupulous recruiters.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) is not processing any job orders for Guam as some illegal recruiters are going around in the provinces recruiting applicants by spreading information that their alleged licensed agencies are already listing up possible workers for the construction projects in the US territory.
As the US government prepares for the transfer of its Marines and Air Force personnel in Guam, Filipino healthcare professionals will also be in demand in the US territory.
Guam Gov. Felix Camacho, who was on official visit to Manila last year, said the relocation of US Marine and Air Force units to the territory would double the patient capacity of the US Naval Hospital in Guam, the primary medical provider for military members and their dependents currently numbering 14,000.
The US Naval Hospital offers a broad band of medical services that include family practice, OB-GYN, pediatrics, general surgery, internal medicine, occupational health and preventive medicine, physical therapy, health promotions and social work services, Camacho said. –Michaela P. del Callar, Daily Tribune
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