Multiple Travel Exit Clearance (MTEC)

There are many situations in which an overseas worker will be coming back within the year and then leave again. It would be tedious (and double the payment needed) if he would always apply for an OEC every time he comes in the country. The POEA decided to create the MTEC or the Multiple Travel Exit Clearance for cases such as these.

The MTEC is a set of two or more clearances issued to a worker-on-leave/Balik manggagawa. He uses the MTEC as an exit document within a period of twelve months from the date it is issued. Because of the MTEC, the worker-on-leave/balik manggagawa who exits from the Philippines more than once in a period of twelve months does not need to secure his exit clearance each time he comes home to the Philippines but just needs to get clearance on a one-time basis.