Further to Memorandum Circular No. 17, Series of 1992, providing guidelines on the deployment of Filipino domestics to Malaysia, and to effect a smooth transition in the implementation of the compulsory pre-departure orientation at POEA, you are hereby informed that workers whose employment contracts (ECs) were authenticated at the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur after April 30, 1992 shall be required to attend the pre-departure orientation seminar (PDOS) at the POEA.  Thereafter, only those ECs with PDOS certificates of attendance issued by the POEA shall be considered for processing by the Administration.

For strict compliance.

Adopted: 27 Apr. 1992