An unusually high number of Nepalis have been going abroad on visit visas in the past few months, and this has left officials worried.

Authorities at the country’s lone international airport, who were used to seeing hundreds of Nepali migrants head to the Gulf for work everyday, are now witnessing a large number of Nepalis leave the country on visit visas.

Officials fear that a significant number of Nepalis might be going abroad for work on visit visas rather than on work visas and permits from the Nepal government. “We had received information that many Nepalis were going abroad on visit visas. Around 500 Nepalis are believed to have left the country on a single day in three flights,” said Jhalak Sharma Sapkota, secretary of the parliamentary committee Parliamentary Committee on Industry, Commerce, Labour and Consumer Interest.

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