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NEW DELHI, Aug 7 (Bernama) — India is to bring back 19 Indians who had entered Malaysia with ‘false’ work visas, the Press Trust of India reported quoting Minister of State for External Affairs Gen V. K. Singh.
According to media reports, they are fresh graduates of a hospitality institute in Thane, Maharashtra, who were stranded in Malaysia after the recruitment agency that got them jobs was blacklisted and they were fired from their jobs.
Reports also claimed that they were issued with visas that did not enable them to continue working in Malaysia.
Hence, they had approached the Indian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur with a request for early repatriation to India, the reports said.
The mission immediately issued emergency certificates to them as they claimed their passports had been retained by the employer, PTI reported.
“Our mission is constantly facilitating various formalities of the Malaysian immigration and closely following up the matter with the Malaysian authorities,” the report quoted Singh as having said in a written reply in parliament on Wednesday. — BERNAMA
Source: Bernama
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