Women need ward recommendation to visit Gulf countries on visit visa!

 

Kathmandu. 

The government is preparing to provide ward and family recommendations to women under the age of 40 who are going on a visit visa for the first time in the Gulf countries.

The Immigration Department has formulated a procedure for a visit visa, proposing a permit from a family with a young woman under the age of 40 who has never been abroad and a recommendation from the local ward where she resides.

According to Teknarayan Poudel, information officer at the Immigration Department, this rule does not apply in the case of a family member.

There is a growing trend of going to the Gulf countries on a visit visa without any information from Nepal. Concluding that women are at risk in the Gulf countries, the government is tightening visit visas. "We have made a proposal to the home ministry, if approved, it will be implemented."

According to him, the ministry had earlier formed a committee to study the issue of women stranded abroad. The committee concluded that the risk had increased due to the tendency to enter the Gulf countries and work without the consent of the family on a visit visa.

He informed that the department has proposed to amend the working procedure on the basis of the suggestions of the same study report.

"We are trying to bring this provision without the consent of the family so that the brokers do not go abroad for greed," he said. He said that women of that age group are at risk in the Gulf countries.

Proof of dollar exchange must be accompanied

The department is now looking for evidence even in dollar exchanges. According to the new procedure, not only will you have to carry dollars with you when you go on a tourist visa, but you will also have to carry proof of exchanging dollars from a bank or an official body.

Although proposed in this procedure, this provision has already been implemented. Apart from this, there is a provision in the working procedure that insurance of Rs 1.5 million should be made mandatory when going for a visit visa.