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Kuwait plans stringent measures against visa trading
Visa trading has become a common affair these days, with few cleaning and construction companies hiring Asians on visit visas and later refusing to provide them with jobs, reveals Hashem Majed, Managing Director, Al-Huqooq International Company.
Majed revealed that Asians, particularly Indians, Filipinos and Chinese, are charged anywhere between KD800 to KD1200 for a visit visa, and this has been continued for the past couple of months.
Majed said that the government is now introducing stringent measures regarding issuance of work permits, but, few companies are still relying on visit visas to defraud workers.
Majed pointed out that embassies of the workers’ who have been duped, are unable to address to their problems, and these workers suffer without shelters to meet their housing needs. Embassy can raise the issue of worker problems with the concerned authorities in the hope that they will act.
The problem is now taking a dangerous turn, and such matters need to be tackled before situation gets out of control, Majed added.
During the recent past, several skilled workers too had been cheated with a charge of KD1200 for a visit visa. A group of Chinese clay artists were promised jobs with high salaries. But when they arrived at the country, they were shocked to note that the company refused them job or accommodation. It was then that they realized that they were hired on visit visas and the company did not even make an effort to extend their visas.
Pointing out to several such instances, Majed said that increasing numbers of workers who entered Kuwait on visit visas are now suffering imprisonment for no fault of theirs. These workers are not to be blamed for their situation. The Ministry should cancel the commercial licenses of the companies who dupe their workers on such pretexts. Until then, workers will continue to be exploited, he added.
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