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by Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News   LOS ANGELES — The Philippine government has said it won’t interfere with another country’s immigration policy. However, that doesn’t mean they won’t help kababayans caught in immigration sweeps and deportation procedures. As...

SAN FRANCISCO – Signs and banners were held high, chants echoed and fists were raised in the air to show what kababayans who gathered at Philippine consulates and embassies around the world call a united front...

SAN FRANCISCO – In the San Francisco Bay Area, overseas absentee voters also rushed in at the last minute to cast their votes. Henni Espinosa reports....Read More

LOS ANGELES – Voters are now trickling into Los Angeles as the Philippines early voting period begins. Before kababayans head down there, Steve Angeles tells us a few last minute instructions....Read More

LOS ANGELES – The caregiver whose Facebook post helped shed light on the alleged bullet scam in Philippine airports made a trip to the Philippine Consulate to aid in the investigation of the scheme. The Consul General...

By Rowena Papasin, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau VANCOUVER – As the deadline for overseas absentee voting registration draws near, the Philippine Consulate in Vancouver is working overtime to get more kababayan seafarers registered so they...

NEW YORK – Just like many Filipino Americans, transgender woman Morena Cipriano is planning to spend her retirement in the Philippines when that times comes. Cipriano said, “Sooner or later balak ko mag-retire sa Philippines. Tapos...

LOS ANGELES – In a month, about 279,000 have applied for AB60, which allows undocumented workers to obtain a California drivers licenses. Over 39,000 AB60 licenses since been issued. While the new law has been well...

By Balitang America Staff, ABS-CBN North America Bureau April 2, 2014 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Philippine consulate officials in the Midwest are investigating if any Filipino students were hurt in a Missouri school bus accident Tuesday...

By Balitang America Staff, ABS-CBN North America Bureau March 19, 2014 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – An undocumented Filipino facing murder charges in Ohio is being offered help by the Philippine government. Philippine consulate officials have reached...