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UAE Job Visa Forgery

Dhaka to push for safe system

Porimol Palma
Bangladesh is going to seek a fully secure visa process for its jobseekers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to check forgery.
A four-member official-level delegation that is leaving for Abu Dhabi tonight will raise the issue of securing visa process at a bilateral meeting with the Gulf country's labour and home ministry officials tomorrow.
“The visa process of the UAE is relatively modern. But there are still some glitches that need to be addressed,” Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas
Employment Secretary Zafar Ahmed Khan told The Daily Star yesterday.
As per the existing practice, the UAE employers send photocopies of the original work visas to Bangladesh. But in many instances racketeers forge these visa copies that result in the deportation of workers from Dubai immigration, ministry officials and recruiting agencies said.
Fraudsters even forge UAE visas to send Bangladeshi workers to Iraq through Dubai airport, they said.
The UAE, which employs around 15 lakh Bangladeshi workers, is the second largest labour market for Bangladesh. Nurul Islam, director of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), said both the labour ministry and home ministry of the UAE issue visas to the foreign workers.
UAE employers willing to hire more than eight foreign workers will have to apply to their labour ministry. In case of less than eight workers, they will have to apply to the home ministry, he said.
The UAE labour ministry issues around 80 percent of visas and uploads the visa numbers in their website. This allows the BMET to authenticate visas.
However, the UAE home ministry does not upload the visa numbers in their website. The problems of forgery arise in such cases, Nurul Islam said.
“We want each and every
visa issued to our workers will be cross-checked online. We would raise this issue during our meeting with the UAE authorities,” he said.
From the UAE, the delegation will visit Saudi Arabia to hold meetings with its labour ministry officials and employers to find ways to recruit more workers from Bangladesh.
Saudi Arabia has significantly reduced the number of workers being recruited from Bangladesh since 2008. It is also not renewing residency permits of the Bangladeshis living there.
“This issue will also come up in our meeting with Saudi authorities," the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment secretary said.
The Bangladesh delegation will return home on February2.