The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) respectfully reminds the public that the deadline for the submission of nominations to the Year 2012 Presidential Awards for Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas is on 15 June 2012. The Presidential Awards is a biennial search to recognize exceptional individuals and organizations for their outstanding contribution to Philippine progress and development. 

The Awards are also conferred on overseas Filipinos who have shown excellence and distinction in their work or profession. Since its inception in 1991, awards have been conferred on 338 overseas-based individuals and organizations from 44 countries and territories.

Completed nomination and endorsement forms, with supporting documents, can be submitted in two ways:

1.  Online through their website: www.2012presidentialawards.cfo.gov.ph

2.  By mail addressed to :

Commission on Filipinos Overseas
Citigold Center
1345 President Quirino Avenue corner South Superhighway
Manila 1007 Philippines

Please be reminded that all nominations submitted through mail or online must be received by the CFO on or before 15 June 2012.

The Filipino community is encouraged to nominate any individual whom or organization that they think is qualified for the awards. The Embassy will endorse the nominations of the Filipino community to the CFO.

In December 2011, Mr. Marco Torres, a member for the Filipino community in Beijing, was one of the recipients of the 2011 Bagong Bayani Awards, a private sector-led national search for the country's outstanding and exemplary Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), which recognizes and pays tribute to OFWs for their significant efforts in fostering goodwill among peoples of the world, enhancing and promoting the image of the Filipino as a competent, responsible and dignified worker, and for contributing to the socio-economic development of their communities, and our country.

For more information on this matter, please contact the Embassy at telephone no. (+8610) 6532.1872 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or the Awards Secretariat at tel. nos. (632) 561-8291; (632) 552-4700 locals 761-767, fax no. : (632) 561-8291, or e-mail addresses at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..