Saudi Work Visa

Fourteen Indians are stranded in Saudi Arabia with most of them in the country's jails after two local travel agents allegedly sent them to work in the Middle East nation on tourist visas, police said. Now, their tourist visa has expired and they do not have work visas, they added.

After a 14-month ordeal in Saudi Arabia, where she was forced to work as a "slave" in a house, 42-year-old Jacintha Mendonca has returned home. Ms Jacintha was allegedly duped by a Mumbai-based recruiting agency who promised her a high-salary job in Qatar

Saudi Arabia has stopped issuing business visas to Swedish citizens, the Swedish foreign ministry said Thursday amid a deepening diplomatic row between the Nordic country and the Gulf.

Passport authorities in Saudi Arabia will start stamping the exit papers of stranded expatriate workers from May 18 to help them leave that country.

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on Monday that India is in touch with the Saudi Arabian government over the kingdom's new work policy and would explore all avenues to find a solution during the three months of grace period announced by Riyadh.

Government today said it is constantly monitoring the situation in Saudi Arabia following the Kingdoms proposed implementation of the Nitaqat (naturalisation) law in its employment sector and help Indian workers there who could be affected by it.

Mirza Mukhtarbeg Dilawar-beg, a 38-year-old who went to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on a work visa three months ago through an agent in the city, has appealed to the Indian Government to rescue him from the clutches of his employer, saying he is forced to work long hours, kept without food for days on end and prevented from speaking to his family in the...

Fourteen Indians are stranded in Saudi Arabia with most of them in the country's jails after two local travel agents allegedly sent them to work in the Middle East nation on tourist visas, police said. Now, their tourist visa has expired and they do not have work visas, they added.

After a 14-month ordeal in Saudi Arabia, where she was forced to work as a "slave" in a house, 42-year-old Jacintha Mendonca has returned home. Ms Jacintha was allegedly duped by a Mumbai-based recruiting agency who promised her a high-salary job in Qatar

Saudi Arabia has stopped issuing business visas to Swedish citizens, the Swedish foreign ministry said Thursday amid a deepening diplomatic row between the Nordic country and the Gulf.

Passport authorities in Saudi Arabia will start stamping the exit papers of stranded expatriate workers from May 18 to help them leave that country.

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on Monday that India is in touch with the Saudi Arabian government over the kingdom's new work policy and would explore all avenues to find a solution during the three months of grace period announced by Riyadh.

Government today said it is constantly monitoring the situation in Saudi Arabia following the Kingdoms proposed implementation of the Nitaqat (naturalisation) law in its employment sector and help Indian workers there who could be affected by it.

Mirza Mukhtarbeg Dilawar-beg, a 38-year-old who went to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on a work visa three months ago through an agent in the city, has appealed to the Indian Government to rescue him from the clutches of his employer, saying he is forced to work long hours, kept without food for days on end and prevented from speaking to his family in the...