Kathmandu, January 16
The government is making the service flow information technology friendly. The Foreign
Employment Office, Kathmandu, under the Department of Foreign Employment, is going to
issue labor permit again through online system from today.
Since Poush 2077, re-approval of labor has been done through both physical presence and
online means, from today, re-approval of labor will be issued only online.
The office has stated that the work of re-approval of labor is being done only through the
online system to make the labor approval faceless, paperless and cashless in order to provide fast, quick and transparent complaint-free service.
Ramesh Aryal, chief of the Foreign Employment Office, said that the Ministry of Labor,
Employment and Social Security has directed the workers going for foreign employment to
provide services in a simple and easy way without any hassle by using modern technology.
How to get re-employment approval?
To get the online service of re-employment approval, the service recipient will have to fill the form along with all the required documents through the Foreign Employment Information Management System of the website of the Department of Foreign Employment. To do this, first go to the department’s website and click on the online labor permit. Or it can be opened directly by going to the Foreign Employment Information Management System.
If the application is rejected for any reason while checking the work permit documents, the
information including the reason will go to the mobile number of the applicant and the user
account of the applicant, so you will have to fill in your personal mobile number and email
address. The username and password should be kept safe while applying as it is possible to
know the status of the labor permit, view the details and make a complaint or grievance by
using the username and password again.
As it takes time to check the documents online, the office has requested to fill the online form at least three days in advance and arrange the air ticket only after getting the work permit. The office has also asked to ensure that the labor permit expires by 90 days till the date of flight.
The office has been giving institutional labor sanction, re-labor sanction and individual labor
sanction. The service recipients do not have to come to the office for institutional labor
approval, only the concerned manpower entrepreneurs come.
According to the Foreign Employment Office, about one lakh people have applied for re-
employment, 180,000 for institutional and more than 8,000 for individual till the end of the
current fiscal year.
By Karuna Thapa
