KATHMANDU: The Foreign Employment Promotion Board has stated that about 400,000 Nepali workers working in foreign employment should be repatriated due to the coronavirus.
The board has stated that there is a need to create an environment for their immediate repatriation.
The Malaysian government has started arresting illegal migrant workers as the lockdown for controlling the coronavirus has been extended.
Malaysia has also started the process of amnesty at the same time. In the case of foreign workers working illegally,
Malaysia has issued a 14-day notice requesting them to participate in the amnesty process.
The Malaysian government even announced a general amnesty for illegal foreign workers last year. The amnesty was scheduled for August 10 to December 31.
According to the Nepali Embassy in Malaysia, about 15,000 Nepalis participated in the amnesty process.
Likewise, Nearly 3,500 Nepalis stranded in Kuwait are waiting impatiently in their local shelters for their journey back home.
With Kuwait’s attractive package to those repatriating from there, hundreds of Nepalis have reached the government’s shelter seeking amnesty and facilitation to return home.
Although Nepal has imposed restrictions on international flights till May 15 and is planning to extend it much longer, the Kuwait government has been requesting the embassy there to work for those wishing to repatriate.
The stranded migrant laborers can come back to Nepal only if the Nepal government arranges for their quarantine and flight back home. Kuwait government is said to have offered a flight back for such stranded Nepalis.
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