117 foreign employment workers leaving for Kuwiat sent back from TIA
File photo Kathmandu, July 13 The Immigration Department of Tribhuvan International Airport has sent back 117 people who were leaving Nepal for foreign employment in Kuwait. Immigration Department sent back 101 workers going to Kuwait through Salam Air on Wednesday evening and 16 workers leaving for Kuwait through Kuwait Air on Thursday morning. Officials of the Immigration Department said their visa was suspicious. Around half of those who were returned were women. The workers had labour permits to work in companies in Kuwait. However, during the interrogation, the immigration officers turned them back saying the visa they had did not determine where they were going to work and that they were going as domestic workers. Going abroad as a domestic worker is illegal. According to Jhalakram Adhikari, Director General of the Immigration Department, they were returned after it was confirmed that there was one type of visa on their passport while the documents they had suggested th...