The Embassy of Nepal, Saudi Arabia
26 May 2010, JEDDAH: At least two Nepalese housemaids are left every day at the gates of the Nepalese Embassy in Riyadh . Many of the housemaids, who have legal Kuwaiti residency documents, are brought to the Kingdom on visit visas, made to work for Saudi families and then abandoned or brought to the embassy.
“Some Saudis hire housemaids from their relatives and friends in Kuwait . But such women cannot be sent back to Nepal via Kuwait as it would incur extra expenses, including a SR10,000 fine because they have overstayed their visit visas. The easiest thing to do is to bring them to our embassy, sometimes with their passports and one-way tickets,” said Khadga Prasad Dahal, First Scretary at the Nepalese Embassy. पढ्नेक्रम जारी राख्नुहोस्