Authorities decline to let them work on existing visa
Forty-eight Bangladeshi workers yesterday returned to the country from the United Arab Emirates as the authorities had rejected their new employer’s plea to let them work on their existing visas.
Mainuddin Hossain, a Dubai returned diploma engineer, said among the repatriated workers, 35 used to work at Al Futtaim Carillion LLC, an Australian company, and 13 others at another company in the UAE.
More than 70 workers will return by tomorrow for the same reason, he added.
The construction company Al Futtaim applied for visa transfer for 375 migrant workers, including 100 Bangladeshis who had to switch to the company after their earlier company Hastie International had shut down operations.
However, the UAE immigration authorities in Dubai accepted all the transfer pleas, except those of the Bangladeshis due to a “visa ban”, added Mainuddin.
Earlier, Nazmul Quaunine, Bangladesh ambassador to the UAE, told The Daily Star that the Gulf nation had become stricter with their policy for issuing new visas and visa transfers.
Courtesy of The Daily Star
