Real life stories

T.L. is a third-country resident, a long-term resident of the Philippines.

She was born in 1973 as an only child. She grew up in a modest family, being encouraged by parents to go to school. In 1997, Mrs. T.L. graduated in the Philippines from the Faculty of Letters, specializing in English. After college, she attended a nursing specialization course. In the Philippines, after completing this course, she worked as a nurse at a hospital for two years. In 2005 she finished a second faculty, specializing in "IT Technology". In 2006 she went to Cyprus, where she worked in the IT field. There she met her future husband, a Romanian citizen who worked as a bartender. Mrs. T.L. said she fell in love with the Romanian citizen at first glance. In 2007 she came with him to Romania to be presented to his parents and relatives. Mrs. T.L. was barely accepted by the parents and relatives of the Romanian citizen. In 2008 they married and continued to live in Bucharest. The husband worked as an engineer; they got along very well, except for the times when the mother-in-law intervened between them, as she did not like her and always reproached her that she was not of the same religion.

Mrs. T.L. lived in Bucharest, with her husband and parents-in-law, in a two-room apartment until 2014. In 2014, Mrs. T.L.'s husband died. After this unpleasant event, Mrs. T.L. stayed with her parents-in-law in their apartment until mid-2016, when her mother-in-law kicked her out of the apartment.

After leaving home, Mrs. T.L. lived for a while with a friend. One day, while at a mall in Bucharest, he met a man from Pitesti who proposed to move into his home. He promised to find her a job. In Pitesti, her first job was at the “House of dwarfs” Kindergarten, as an English teacher. At first, she was very pleased to have found this job. Later, Mrs. T.L. became disappointed with this employer because, besides teaching English, she was asked to perform other unpaid activities (cleaning, housekeeping, food preparation).

The case of Mrs. T.L., a Filipino citizen, was taken over by one Association of Piteşti on 2016, at the recommendation of the Romanian Office of the International Organization for Migration.

At the time of taking over the case, it is identified the need for information on how to find a job, the need to get counseling for integration, the need to get immediate material support for medical services, and the need for translation and legalization of study papers. It is identified the need to improve her knowledge of Romanian, which is extremely necessary for employment and integration in Romanian society.

A new component of the integration process is the identification of a job and the achievement of stable income. Mrs. T.L. has encountered problems in finding and keeping a job appropriate for her training. In many cases, she was dismissed by employers because of her small stature and the difficulty in performing certain physical activities. In addition, she was unable to take advantage of her graduate studies in the Philippines because Mrs. T.L.'s study papers were not translated, legalized and recognized by the Ministry of National Education.

Four months after taking over the case, Mrs. T.L. was integrated into a Romanian language online study program organized by the Association.

Between 2016 and 2019, Mrs. T.L. has, on several occasions, requested the support of the Association to find a job. Unfortunately, she could not enroll as a job seeker because her studies were not equivalent. During 2018, Mrs. T.L. was supported on several occasions, in relation to state institutions and employers.