A New Year, A New Decade!

Out with the old, in with the new! As we look forward to this New Year – and the new decade – we expect exciting opportunities and challenges. But before we jump too quickly ahead – discarding all we’ve accomplished so far – we should consider the gems we want to hold on to.

At remithome, when we look back on past issues of our newsletters, even we have been surprised by the breadth of topics covered. When we published our first monthly newsletter in October 2008, the world was in the middle of a global financial crisis. In that issue, we anticipated that our newsletter would provide information about new remithome service offerings, important U.S. and Philippine news and other useful ideas. We introduced a monthly “Ask remithome” feature where we answered customer questions about our remittance service. Since then, we’ve also discussed Exchange Rates, Typhoons, the Immigrant Experience, Travel to the Philippines, and much more!

In this special “Year in Review” newsletter, we touch on some of the diverse content from earlier issues. We’d also like your feedback. Which articles did you find most useful? What would you like to see more of? Are there other areas you would like us to cover?

Please click here to let us know what you think. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

Antonio Dennis Reis
President and CEO
remithome Corporation

 remithome’s Monthly Newsletter – A Guide to Past Issues

Because our monthly newsletter has covered such a wide variety of topics, we are providing this guide to our first 15 issues. Hyperlinks to newsletter articles are grouped by topic and have a brief description of the content of the article. Those articles that contain extensive links to web resources are included under Helpful Web Resources as well as under the relevant topic area.

If you want to see past issues of the remithome newsletter, visit the Monthly Newsletter page (under the About Us tab on the remithome website). This page has links to each issue of the newsletter as well as to articles listed by topic.

For answers to specific questions about remithome, visit the Ask remithome page (under the Services tab on the remithome website). This page has links to the Ask remithome section of the newsletter.

Helpful Web Resources

• Visas, Green Cards, and U.S. Citizenship (Official U.S. Government Information)
• Filipino Immigrants in the United States (Statistics on Filipino Immigrants)
• Traveling to the Philippines (Official U.S. and Philippine Government Information on
  Travel Requirements, Health Information, and Places to Visit)
• Typhoon Forecasts and Weather Advisories for the Philippines (Valuable Resource for
  Typhoon Forecasts, Flood Advisories, and Other Weather-Related Information)

Exchange Rates

• An Introduction (How Philippine Peso/U.S. Dollar exchange rates are quoted.)
• Why They Change (Factors that influence exchange rates.)
• Wholesale and Retail (Why exchange rates are different for large transactions.)
• How remithome Sets Exchange Rates (Comparing remithome’s exchange rates
  with those of other online remittance services.)
• Sending U.S. Dollars (Why it is more expensive to send U.S. Dollars to be converted
  to Philippine Pesos in the Philippines.)

Information for New U.S. Immigrants

• Visas, Green Cards, and U.S. Citizenship (Web Resources)
• First Impressions (Filipino immigrant impressions of the U.S.)
• Living and Working in America (Filipino immigrant experiences at work.)
• Filipino Immigrants in the United States (Web Resources)

U.S. and the Philippines

• Cost of Living Comparison (Selected U.S. and Philippines price comparisons.)
• Traveling to the Philippines (Web Resources)
• Valentine’s Day (Celebration in the Philippines)
• Christmas (Bringing Christmas traditions from the Philippines to the U.S.)

Disaster Relief in the Philippines

• Typhoon Forecasts and Weather Advisories for the Philippines (Web Resources)
• The Philippine National Red Cross and Disaster Relief (Information on the
  Philippine National Red Cross involvement in disaster relief.)
• Making Donations to an Organization (How to use remithome to make donations to an
  organization. Includes the information needed to donate to The Philippine National Red Cross.)

Our remithome Community

• Overview of our remithome Community (Who are remithome members? Where do
  they live and work? Why do they send?)
• Member Profile: Supporting Education and Development in the Philippines
  (Description of one remithome customer’s charitable work supporting education,
  micro-lending, and youth development in the Philippines.)
• Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals (Overview of this key segment of
  remithome members. The U.S.-Philippines connection in healthcare.)

Sending Money

• Scheduling Transfers and Recurring Instructions (How to schedule a transfer for
  a future date. How to set up a Recurring Instruction to send money regularly.)
• Scheduling and Canceling Transfers (Only you can schedule a transfer. You can cancel
  a scheduled transfer or we can do it for you.)
• Sending Money to Multiple Recipients (What are the benefits or using a Multiple Recipient
  Transaction and how do you schedule one?)
• Multiple Recipient Transactions (Example of a Multiple Recipient Transaction.)

Transaction Status

• Email Notifications (Describes the most common email notifications you receive for
  your remithome account.)
• Online Transaction Status Notification (Helps you understand the Transaction Status terms
  used in your remithome account.)

Delivery Methods

• Overview of remithome’s Delivery Methods (What delivery methods are available and
  which is the best one for your recipient?)
• Cash Pick-Up (How to use the Cash Pick-Up delivery method. What you and your recipient need to do.)
• Recipient Profiles and Nicknames (What to do if you want to be able to send money to
  a recipient using different delivery methods.)

remithome Website Navigation

• Website Navigation (Visitor) (What can you find out about remithome without logging in?)
• Website Navigation (Member) (How do you login and use the remithome website once
  you are a member?)

Telling Others about remithome

• Tell A Friend Referral Program (How can you earn rewards by telling others about remithome?)