The government said it will grant permission to aspirant Nepalis jobseekers to work in Israel.
The government move has come after Israel resumed issuance of fresh working visas to the Nepalis workers to work there. The country has stopped issuing working visas for Nepalis for the last 15 months.
The (MoLTM) Monday instructed to resume issuance of permission after the Israeli embassy started giving visas to Nepalis in the last few days.
“We have directed the Department of Labor and Employment Promotion (DoLEP) to grant permissions to the aspirant job seekers to work in Israel after the Israeli embassy in Kathmandu informed the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM) on July 25 about the resumption of visa issuance to Nepali job seekers,” said a senior official at MoLTM.
Keshar Bahadur Baniya, director general of DoLEP, said the process of issuing fresh permits to Nepalis vying to work in Israel would be resumed immediately, reported Kantipur.
Moreover, MoLTM has already forwarded to the Embassy, a list of job aspirants who were previously issued permission and were queuing up for jobs when it stopped issuing visas.
692 workers had made final preparations to leave for Israel last year when it suddenly stopped issuing working visas to Nepalis.
The Israeli embassy ceased to entertain applications for working visas from the second week of May 2007, citing its government’s new policy that made it mandatory to all the source countries to set up diplomatic missions or appoint labor attachés in Israel.
Subsequent to the decision, Nepal set up a mission and appointed a labor attaché in Tel Aviv last year, paving the way for employment in Israel -- the most popular destination for Nepali women workers.
Israel had also asked Nepal to sign a special agreement with the International Organization of Migration (IOM) to deal with Nepali workers in Israel. Nepal fulfilled this condition last year.
Of late, Israel has also put forth a condition to involve IOM in the recruiting process. More than two dozen foreign employment agencies are involved in sending workers to Israel, which has already absorbed more than 12,000 workers so far.
