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Indian workers in Saudi Arabia can regularise
visa status
Thursday May 02, 2013 08:30:29 PM,
IANS
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Dubai: In a bid to
address the problems arising out of Saudi Arabia's new labour
policy, Indian workers who have travelled to that Gulf nation
legally will be allowed to regularise their visa status.
In a meeting of the India-Saudi Arabia joint panel formed to look
at the issue, it was decided that Indians who have travelled to
Saudi Arabia legally can register with Saudi authorities during
the three-month amnesty period currently underway to have their
visa status regularised, get new jobs or return to India if they
chose to do so, local media reported Thursday.
Nitaqat, the new Saudi labour policy, makes it mandatory for all
Saudi companies to reserve 10 percent jobs for Saudi nationals.
The meeting at the Saudi ministry of labour Wednesday was attended
by Saudi deputy minister for labour affairs Ahmad S. Al-Humaidan,
deputy minister for international affairs Ahmed F. Al Fahaid and
deputy minister for labour relations Ziyad I. Alsaigh; the Indian
side was represented by Sibi George, deputy chief of mission at
the Indian embassy in Riyadh.
According to George, the meeting discussed the issue of
re-employing overstaying Indian workers in Saudi Arabia by taking
advantage of the facilities offered by the Saudi ministry of
labour, including services of large recruiting companies.
George urged Indian workers to visit the website
www.redyellow.com.sa that is regularly accessed by Saudi companies
looking for Indian workers.
The labour ministry, however, made it clear those workers who have
legal cases pending against them have to settle their cases before
they return to India.
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