The Nepali mission in Saudi Arabia has resumed its services to prospective Saudi employers who want to hire Nepali workers following a hiatus of 10 months—raising hopes for the revival of the labour migration sector hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Nepali embassy in Saudi Arabia has resumed attesting demand letters submitted by local employers for hiring Nepali, the mission said. The embassy had stopped attesting the letters 10 months ago following the government’s decision to suspend recruitment of Nepali workers abroad due to the COVID-19 crisis.

“The resumption of services at the embassy has raised hope among recruiting agencies and workers. Halting the issuance of demand verification letters had impacted labour migration [in Saudi Arabia] when other embassies had already resumed the service,” said Sujeet Kumar Shrestha, general secretary at the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA), a grouping of 854 recruiting agencies that supply Nepali workers.

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