Ruby arranged a teaching job in Thailand, but the Philippine government won't let her leave the country until they check out that the job is not a scam.
this is a good law, since a lot of our OFW are scammed into work, and then find the job they are supposed to be doing does not exist, so the are left in limbo and exploited by their so called employer.
And yes, a lot of Filipinos work overseas without proper papers just like a lot of undocmented migrants work in the USA with fake or absent papers.
Essentially she was stopped at the airport when screened and they discovered she was going to a job, not just visiting Thailand. Presumably the international school where she plans to work has given her a working visa for that country, and that is how local screeners discovered this.
She got the job via connections of other teachers in international schools who she knew in the USA, not via a recruiter in the Philippines so was not aware of this law.
So her job is on hold while she gets the paperwork done which should take a week or two.
Sigh.
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