Saudi Work Visa

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  Saudi Arabia Tightens Work Visa Rules For Indian Workers. Mandates This Crucial Step

  Indians planning to apply for a work visa for Saudi Arabia will now be required to undergo pre-verification of their professional and educational qualifications.

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  Duped With Tourist Over Work Visas, 14 Indians Stranded In Saudi Arabia

  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.

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  'Tortured Like An Animal': Indian Woman Recalls 14-Month Ordeal In Saudi

  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 Freezes Swedish Business Visas as Row Deepens

  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.

• Exit process of expats from Saudi Arabia to start May 18

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

• India to explore solutions to Saudi work policy: Salman Khurshid

  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 ready to help anyone hit by new Saudi rule on employment

  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.

• Enslaved and starved in Saudi, man claims he's on verge of suicide

  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...