Bangladeshis Call For Diplomatic Push To Lift Travel Ban

According to Alqabas A number of Bangladeshi workers who left Kuwait for their country before the travel ban due to Corona called on their government yesterday to make diplomatic efforts to ensure their return to Kuwait again as soon as possible.

According to the Bangladesh Daily Star, a group of about 50 Bangladeshi workers yesterday submitted a memorandum to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Expatriate Care and Employment Abroad, expressing their fear that their visas would expire, indicating that several thousand workers may lose their jobs and businesses in Kuwait. Kuwait has not lifted the travel ban on Bangladesh and 30 other countries.

The newspaper mentioned that Kuwait partially opened its international flights on the first of August after it was stopped in March due to the epidemic, yet the ban continues on 31 countries, including Bangladesh, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iran and Nepal. One of the signers of the note told the newspaper, Sabur Khan, that he returned to Bangladesh on December 4 on vacation, and was scheduled to return in late March, but by then travel to Kuwait had been suspended. Business loss And he indicated that «the Kuwaiti government has a rule stipulating that the expatriate must return from his leave to Kuwait within six months, and because of the epidemic,

Kuwait extended this time frame to nine months,» noting that «there are many returnees who have been living in Bangladesh for seven to eight months, If they are not able to return at the earliest time, they will lose their jobs or jobs. ” Sabour stated that he had a store selling electronic and electrical devices in Kuwait, and he invested a lot of money in it, and if he could not return, he would lose his job, indicating that other countries, such as India, Pakistan and the Philippines, began diplomatic efforts to lift the ban, and his country should move diplomatically in the same direction.

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