The Land Transportation Office (LTO) seeks to expand its online driver’s license renewal to other countries after a successful two-day pilot implementation in Taichung and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
LTO Chief Vigor Mendoza II said they are consolidating all the feedback and observations during the two-day pilot implementation of the online driver’s license renewal in Taiwan over the weekend, accommodating around 1,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
Mendoza disclosed the project would be replicated in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
He thanked former Labor and Justice Secretary Silvestre Bello III, Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) Chairman and resident representative; Migrant Workers Office Taipei Labor Attaché Cesar Chavez Jr., now the Presidential Communications Office Secretary; Kaohsiung Labor Attaché David Des Dicang, and other MECO officials for their all-out assistance in making the pilot implementation successful.
“Our online driver’s license renewal in Taiwan was successful. Now, we are reviewing all the feedback and all the observations to determine where we should improve and which should be retained because of the order of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to do the same in different countries where there are a large number of our Filipino compatriots,” Mendoza said.
Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista previously lauded the efforts of the LTO, Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), and MECO, citing the fast and comfortable online driver’s license renewal as one of the goals of the Marcos administration under the Bagong Pilipinas. He urged OFWs to ensure that all the required documents are submitted to avoid delays in processing.
