In its bid to curb anomalies in the foreign employment sector, the government has tightened the procedure for workers leaving to Gulf countries through personal approach. As per the new provision, unskilled workers are not allowed to go for jobs without relationship verification from Nepali embassies concerned.

Foreign job aspirants generally reach to job destinations in two ways—institutional mediation of outsourcing agencies and personal contacts or individual approach. The department said an unskilled worker eyeing jobs in Gulf countries—Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait—through personal app-roach must get his/her relationship verified at the embassies concerned by the person who wants to invite the aspirant.

“This provision will control the involvement of middlemen or people who send job offers to Nepal without any relation to aspirants,” Purna Chandra Bhattarai, director general at the Department of Foreign Employ-ment said. Bhattarai added that they have requested the emb-assies concerned to send a copy of such relationship verification to the department for the issuance of the final work permit.

The provision is not applicable to skilled workers leaving in individual visa and to those returning to the same company.

Published on: 7 October 2012 | The Kathmandu Post