Expatriates’ welfare ministry will create a databank of returned and stranded migrant workers whose work permits and visas have expired and cannot rejoin their works.
The ministry has taken the initiative so that it can provide necessary assistance to them so that they can repatriate to their job destination countries, said a press release issued by the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment on Tuesday.
The workers, who are willing to return to their job destination countries, has been asked for registering their names through the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) website immediately.
The link of the BMET website is www.old.bmet.gov.bd/BMET/returnMigrant.
Workers will be able to complete registration online and no registration fee is required, the press release said.
However, nearly 100,000 workers returned back 'on leave' but most of them could not repatriate to the job destination countries.
Most of them, who returned from Saudi Arabia on leave before outbreaks of Coronavirus, are facing uncertainty whether they could rejoin their works or not.
Besides, workers who returned from Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and other countries could not go to their job destination countries due to travel ban, imposed by employing countries.
The validity of visas and Iqama has already expired of many workers.
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