Last year (March), the Philippine Labor Office has shown me a copy of Memo from POEA that direct hiring is no longer allowed and anyone with work permit should go through an agency to process their documents in POEA,bec. my company has sent work visa to 1 Filipino Engr. but at the immigration airport he was held for having incomplete documents and he was not allowed to travel, so I checked it with the OWWA officials why it happend.(Our Engr.traveled to doha March 14, 2011 and working in our project Al Khor from that month till now).

if you need an agency, i can refer the same which helped us get all his documents done. It is a POEA accredited agency.
Call me at 33638987.