1,610 Bangladeshis return home from Saudi Arabia in last 2 weeks
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Sunday
February 05, 2023

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Games
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2023
1,610 Bangladeshis return home from Saudi Arabia in last 2 weeks

Bangladesh

17 January, 2020, 12:05 pm
Last modified: 17 January, 2020, 12:31 pm

Related News

  • HAAB announces private hajj package at minimum cost of Tk6.72 lakh
  • Women drive fast train to Mecca as Saudi workforce evolves
  • Saudi Arabia to offer up to 200,000 jobs to Sri Lankans in 2023
  • Saudi Arabia's got the money, but can it draw foreign capital?
  • Saudi Arabia reduces Umrah insurance cost for overseas pilgrims by 63%

1,610 Bangladeshis return home from Saudi Arabia in last 2 weeks

Most returnees, even the ones who went to Saudi Arabia only a few months ago, have returned home empty-handed, uncertain about what the future holds

17 January, 2020, 12:05 pm
Last modified: 17 January, 2020, 12:31 pm
1,610 Bangladeshis return home from Saudi Arabia in last 2 weeks

A hundred and nine more Bangladeshi expatriates have returned to Bangladesh from Saudi Arabia at 11.20pm yesterday. They returned home via Saudi Airlines flight SV 804. With this, a total of 1,610 Bangladeshi expatriates have returned home in the span of two weeks of 2020.

BRAC Migration Program, in assistance with the Expatriate Welfare Desk, provided emergency support in repatriating the Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia.

One of the returnees - Taleb (30), was handed over to his family the same night he arrived. Upon arriving in Bangladesh, Taleb was found to be mentally unstable. He went to Saudi Arabia five years ago as a day labourer but he started to become mentally unstable two months earlier.

Azim Hossain, another expatriate day labourer, went to Saudi Arabia only two months ago. He said the Saudi police arrested him while he was on his way to buy groceries. Although he had three more months of visa remaining, he was deported to Bangladesh even after the police spoke to his employer (Kafil) during his arrest.

Ruhul Amin, Firoz Hossain, Manik, Mizan, among the 109 returnees, have reported similar incidents while their stay in Saudi Arabia. They have complained that their employers did not provide them with work permits (Akama), despite having taken the money from them.

Shariful Hassan, head of the BRAC Migration Program, said, "25,789 Bangladeshi workers were deported from Saudi Arabia in 2019 and within 16 days of the new year, 1,610 Bangladeshis have returned home."

Most returnees, even the ones who went to Saudi Arabia only a few months ago, have returned home empty-handed, uncertain about what the future holds.

Shariful, with reference to 2019's statistics of Bangladeshi workers returning home, said, "According to data from Expatriate Welfare Desk, a total of 64,638 Bangladeshi workers have returned home in 2019."

Among them, 25,789 returned from Saudi Arabia; 15,289 returned from Malaysia; 6,117 returned from the United Arab Emirates; 7,366 returned from Oman; 2,525 returned from the Maldives; 2,012 returned from Qatar; 1,448 returned from Bahrain and 479 returned from Kuwait.

"All of them have returned empty-handed as deportees," Shariful added.

"The recruiting agencies have to take responsibility so that no one has to go back to square one. The embassies and the government should also look into the issue. Specifically, fraudulent activities in the name of free visa should be apprehended at once," Shariful expressed.   

Top News

Saudi Arabia / Expatriates

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • ICB to withdraw Padma Bank investment as return eludes
    ICB to withdraw Padma Bank investment as return eludes
  • Some tough tasks on the plate for Bangladesh Bank!
    Some tough tasks on the plate for Bangladesh Bank!
  • Influentials thwart Bangladesh's reform attempts: Economists
    Influentials thwart Bangladesh's reform attempts: Economists

MOST VIEWED

  • Bangladesh's GDP growth to stay below pre-pandemic level even in FY27: IMF
    Bangladesh's GDP growth to stay below pre-pandemic level even in FY27: IMF
  • Photo: TBS
    Basecamp launched at Foy’s Lake in Ctg
  • Bapex calls candidates for job test 9 years after advert!
    Bapex calls candidates for job test 9 years after advert!
  • Second terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka/Photo- Zia Chowdhury/TBS
    Dhaka airport flights to remain suspended for 5 hours every night for 2 months
  • Dhaka isn't safe after midnight: DMP 
    Dhaka isn't safe after midnight: DMP 
  • Photo: Screenshot
    ChatGPT explains why a country seeks IMF loan

Related News

  • HAAB announces private hajj package at minimum cost of Tk6.72 lakh
  • Women drive fast train to Mecca as Saudi workforce evolves
  • Saudi Arabia to offer up to 200,000 jobs to Sri Lankans in 2023
  • Saudi Arabia's got the money, but can it draw foreign capital?
  • Saudi Arabia reduces Umrah insurance cost for overseas pilgrims by 63%

Features

Sketch: TBS

Say 'Salud' before your salad main course

21h | Food
Coots running. Photo: Enam Ul Haque

Cute Coot of Baikka Beel: 'And yet he was as bald as a coot'

15h | Panorama
With only one government run specialised cancer hospital in the capital — the National Institute Of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH) in Mohakhali — patients have no option but to resort to private hospitals. Photo: Noor A Alam.

Cancer care: Medical treatment and beyond

22h | Panorama
Andy Mukherjee. Sketch: TBS

What makes India's billionaires' support special for Adani

1d | Panorama

More Videos from TBS

Prioritise medical equipment, raw material imports over luxury items

Prioritise medical equipment, raw material imports over luxury items

13h | TBS Round Table
Adani row rocks India’s parliament

Adani row rocks India’s parliament

12h | TBS World
Concord launches new plant to produce environment friendly bricks

Concord launches new plant to produce environment friendly bricks

18h | TBS Stories
How Asif Khan would invest his fresh funds right now

How Asif Khan would invest his fresh funds right now

19h | TBS Markets

Most Read

1
Leepu realised his love for cars from a young age and for the last 40 years, he has transformed, designed and customised hundreds of cars. Photo: Collected
Panorama

'I am not crazy about cars anymore': Nizamuddin Awlia Leepu

2
Photo: Collected
Energy

8 Ctg power plants out of production

3
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo
Economy

IMF approves $4.7 billion loan for Bangladesh, calls for ambitious reforms

4
Fund cut as Dhaka's fast-track transit projects on slow spending lane
Infrastructure

Fund cut as Dhaka's fast-track transit projects on slow spending lane

5
Photo: Collected
Court

Japanese mother gets guardianship of daughters, free to leave country

6
Belal Ahmed new acting chairman of SIBL
Banking

Belal Ahmed new acting chairman of SIBL

EMAIL US
[email protected]
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2023
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - [email protected]

For advertisement- [email protected]