U.S official refuses to help u.s citizen

If he is to get any help from the U.S. consulate, then Cebu is a better place to be than Dumaguete. There are more people to beg money from. And he is outside the DumagueteInfo jurisdiction, not our problem anymore.

 

He needs to get back to the U.S. and the best place or that to happen is in Cebu or Manila. If I were in a rough spot with no support back home, then dumped on a street corner close to the consulate is exactly where I would want to be. That's a better location than a street corner in Dumaguete.

The other option is that he gets picked up by immigration and put in immigration jail. He won't get treatment for his condition there. I imagine immigration would be motivated to work with the consulate to put his case at the head of the queue for shipping him out. It would be obvious they wouldn't be getting money from him and his care would be difficult.

Getting to the U.S. would be a win since there are lots of options there.

At this point, his mental condition is just a guess on our part.

 

Plus I don't know the guy but I would hope he is covered by medicare in the US. Sad story. Not good to be alone here guys with no one to look after you in case the grim reaper bites you in the @ss.

 

That thread in LICF pretty well sums this up. There isn't much that we can do. The government of the U.S. and the Philippines isn't going to do anything. It's amazing that he was able to catch a ride to Cebu and even then they had a complaint with issues of funding.

The link I posted earlier pretty well captures the process that is left.

1. They will raise funds from friends and family in the US.

2. They can provide a repatriation loan.

All that is left for DI to do if we were serious would be to take it on ourselves to be the "friends" from #1 and raise funds. We could use something like the service which the family of Prinz used. Those funds could then perhaps be handed to the consulate to either fast track a ticket or to be used in addition to #2 to ease the gap between his present situation and the arrival of any funds / tickets from the consulate. Though it's not a given that the consulate would provide a ticket.

I believe the above mentioned service could gain pledges and put the funding on hold until the logistics has been worked out. Or perhaps the funds could be released and then reimbursed if they aren't needed. I don't know how it works, I would have to check the site.

The difficulty here is that we don't know anything about his situation or whereabouts. If he were here we could probably put him up in a boarding house, seek donations from local restaurants for places for him to eat and perhaps even pay for a caretaker to watch over him during the day (maybe a few hundred pesos a day for someone who has been through a care-giving course). One month of this wouldn't be terribly expensive and that would probably provide enough time to work out the rest of the logistics to get him to the US.

Maybe something like $1200 would pay for the ticket, travel expenses and all of the above. That would be a tight budget. The budget could go further if his stay could be in Manila or wherever he could fly out of. Ideally he would have some pocket money after arriving to the US. I suppose the strength of the campaign would determine what options would be available.

Aside from his present location. The huge unknown is what he wants to do despite his condition. We don't have the authority to force the guy to do anything.

I don't have the time and the resources to take the lead on this. Someone would have to organize it. I could help with an FB campaign (create and help promote a page) but I can't be the point man.

That's about it. All else is commentary at this point.