Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Esteban Conejos Jr. said of the 200 distressed Filipino workers, 140 are in Jordan and the rest are overstayers in Saudi Arabia.

Of the 60 overstaying OFWs in Saudi Arabia, 27 are in Jeddah, 24 of whom are women. All are now booked and expected to fly home on April 11, Conejos said.

Conejos said the remaining 33 OFWs have also been "cleared" and given exit visas for departure in the coming weeks. Twenty four of the 33 are in Riyadh and nine are in Buraydah province.

"We expect them to arrive in April and we will process (the exit visas) of others," he said.

He said the Jordanian authorities also allowed the repatriation of 140 OFWs from Amman.

"Of the 180 OFWs in Jordan, 140 are now cleared for repatriation," said the DFA official.

Conejos admitted that it took sometime to process the OFWs because they have to get certificates from their employers, and from the Governor of the province where they worked and "we also have to establish their identities.

Only then, they can be processed for deportation," he added.

He said the Philippine government allocated $ 36,000 (P1.4 million) to speed up the repatriation of the 73 distressed OFWs, part of the 237 Filipinos who stayed under a bridge in Jeddah to wait for a bus to be deported to a center where all foreigners with expired pilgrims’ visa stay. Most of them are not from Jeddah, but from Riyadh, eastern province and central region of Saudi Arabia.

There are 237 OFWs stranded in Saudi Arabia, 91 of whom are overstaying pilgrims who are at the Riyadh deportation center. The Saudi government will shoulder the repatriation of the 91 Filipino pilgrims.

Last Jan. 25, 38 OFWs in Jeddah, mostly women and their children, arrived in the country.

Meanwhile, Conejos said a local airline has agreed to fly back home the remains of Crisanta Mahusay Lopez Nagano, 33, and her seven-month-old son Naomasa who died from severe bleeding from knife wounds and from strangulation on March 17 at their residence in Higashi, Kurume City in Japan.

Last Monday, the family of the Filipina went to Vice President Noli de Castro and sought his assistance.

"We hope that the booking will be arranged and the body would arrive this Sunday," the DFA official said.

Based on the autopsy results, the 33-year-old Nagano succumbed to knife wounds and her son was strangled by her Japanese husband, Masayoshi Nagano.

The suspect is now in the custody of the Japanese authorities and the investigation is still ongoing, Conejos said.

The 43-year-old Nagano, who surrendered to police last week, confessed that he killed his wife and child because he was worried about an outstanding loan and that he intended, but could not kill himself also.