KATHMANDU, Sept 4: Cases of fraud related to foreign employment have been surging every year. The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) says that the complaints registered have escalated by six fold in the past five years.

KATHMANDU, Aug 24: In Shrawan (mid-July to mid-August), the first month of the current Fiscal Year 2024/2025 (FY), about 60,000 Nepalis left the country for foreign employment.

KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) has canceled 563 applications for the position of Assistant Caregiver at long-term care centers in Israel. The cancellations came after the DoFE found fake certificates among the applications received for caregivers in Israel. This incident has also revealed the issue of selling fake certificates to job-seeking youth.

KATHMANDU, June 18 : In a single month, as many as 72,861 Nepalis left the country for foreign employment, according to the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE).

KATHMANDU, May 30: The manpower sector is engaged in fraudulent activities, deceiving many young individuals aspiring for foreign employment. When manpower (recruitment) companies start defrauding people by employing agents, there is a situation where complaints are filed against the agents and nothing is done against the companies.

KATHMANDU, May 27: The number of youths going abroad for foreign employment exceeded 771,000 in the last fiscal year 2022/23.

KATHMANDU, April 26: The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) has requested the relevant parties to ensure proper facilities for Nepali workers traveling abroad for employment.

KATHMANDU, Feb 15: Young individuals, cheated during foreign employment and seeking justice from the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE), have little hope for a resolution. About 800 victims have filed complaints in various sections of the DoFE against Bikas Waiba and Sujan Tamang, who duped them with promises of foreign employment. Bikas Waiba and Sujan Tamang are the same individuals who utilized social media platforms to cheat many unsuspecting victims.

KATHMANDU, Dec 31: The number of young people aspiring to go abroad after facing unemployment in the country is constantly increasing. In comparison to the month of Kartik (mid-October to mid-November), the number of individuals obtaining work permits has nearly doubled in Mangsir (mid-November to mid-December).

KATHMANDU, Dec 23: A manpower entrepreneur faced assault within the premises of the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) as a woman returning from Kuwait for foreign employment physically attacked Nirmal Rai Amat, the director of KP International Overseas Manpower.

KATHMANDU, Nov 13: A company from Saudi Arabia has been blacklisted by the Nepal government for taking Nepali workers and not giving them work.

KATHMANDU, Nov 4: The latest data shows that the number of people who go abroad for foreign employment is the highest in Dhanusha district. From the beginning of the current fiscal year (FY) 2023/24 till Ashoj (mid-September to mid-October), a total of 7,822 people went to work abroad from Dhanusha.

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: An upward trend in the issuance of work permits for foreign employment reflects the growing desire among Nepali youth to seek employment abroad due to a dearth of domestic job opportunities offering good service conditions.

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: The Department of Foreign Employment has taken action by suspending 14 manpower companies (recruitment agencies) for their involvement in sending Nepali workers to Japan based on questionable certificates of language and cultural training required for foreign employment.

KATHMANDU, Sept 21: Wish HR Solutions, a recruitment company, finds itself embroiled in a legal quagmire as the Department of Foreign Employment has filed a fraud case against its directors, namely Tulsi Prasad Shrestha, Lal Bahadur Pulami, Amrit Shrestha, and Fadindra Koirala. The charges allege a staggering fraud amounting to nearly Rs 40 million.

KATHMANDU, Aug 9: The online service of the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) has been disrupted. Information officer and director of the DoFE Kabiraj Upreti said that the service has been disrupted since Tuesday due to the migration process of the file server of the DoFE's Foreign Employment Information Management System (FEIMS).

KATHMANDU, July 27: In the fiscal year 2022/23, a staggering number of more than 771,000 young individuals ventured abroad for foreign employment. The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) reported that this figure represents the combined total of new and re-permit workers who obtained work permits during the last fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, July 17: The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) has expressed its dissatisfaction after the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) Immigration Office sent back Nepali migrant workers who were going to Kuwait and Jordan with work permits, saying that the permits were suspicious.

KATHMANDU, April 20: The number of people going abroad for foreign employment has exceeded 600,000 in the current Fiscal Year that began in mid-July.

KATHMANDU, Feb 24: The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) has banned entry into the premises of the department without an identity card.

KATHMANDU, Feb 22: The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) has banned foreign employment in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar for motorcycle and taxi driver positions. The department has published a notice and informed all concerned about this decision.

KATHMANDU, April 15: The Department of Foreign Employment has started issuing institutional labor permits completely online from Friday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 21: The online labor permit recently launched by the Foreign Employment Office, Kathmandu has become effective.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: The Foreign Employment Office, Kathmandu, under the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE), is issuing labor permits through an online system from today.

KATHMANDU, Nov 9: The South Korean government is allowing job placement for eligible Nepali workers from November 24.

KATHMANDU, Sept 26: The Department of Foreign Employment has recommended the names of 1,600 people willing to go to Israel for employment.

KATHMANDU, June 29: The Employment Permit System (EPS) under the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) published the result of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) on Friday. Out of 92,376 candidates who filled up the form, around 13% passed the exam. The total number of passed candidates is 12,009 for this year.

KATHMANDU, Feb 11: As many as 53 Malaysian companies have been barred from hiring Nepali workers due to their 'dismal track record', according to the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE). The companies in question were among 67 companies in Malaysia and the Gulf region blacklisted by the DoFE in the recent weeks acting upon tip offs of Nepal's missions, rights organizations and complaints of Nepalis working there.

KATHMANDU, Oct 27: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Friday filed corruption cases against 25 officials of the Department of Foreign Employment on the charge of sending women to Gulf countries by forging documents upon the request of recruiting agencies.