Almost 100,000 expatriate workers in Maldives

Maldives immigration authorities have revealed that the expatriate population in the Maldives would officially reach 100,000 this year, and illegal immigrant workers cost almost US$ 8 million annual loss to Maldives economy.    

Bangladeshi labourers in Male

When speaking to a Bangladesh news newspaper early this year, Maldives foreign minister Ahmed Naseem said some 50,000 Bangladeshis now work in the Maldives, with one-third having no valid registration.     

In the SAARC leaders’ summit just ended, Maldives and Bangladesh agreed to sign a labour agreement in order to resolve the issue of illegal expatriates in the country.

  

Written by: Ibrahim Nazim

11 November 2011, Friday

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