Government’s introduction of free visa and free ticket policy for Nepalis seeking employment in Malaysia and some countries in the Gulf, many migrant workers going to these countries are still forced to pay more than the required amount as processing fee. Furthermore, Nepali migrants aspiring to work in Malaysia are being fleeced by making them pay extra charges in the name of providing services like a controversial biometric medical check-up system. The biometric screening is a fingerprint scanning system with security features to match an individual’s identity with the data recorded in the passport. As per the system, Nepali migrants flying to Malaysia to work are supposed to undergo biometric screening for Rs 4,500 each, an increment from the earlier Rs 2,600 for the same. To add much financial burden on Nepali migrants aspiring for employment in Malaysia, another system–MiGRAMS–a foreign workers centralized management system, in an attempt to make money through a channel, has been introduced in Nepal from May 1, 2016.
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