{"id":68407,"date":"2026-02-05T15:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=68407"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:30:06","slug":"govt-revises-visa-free-ticket-policy-after-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/68407","title":{"rendered":"Govt revises visa-free ticket policy after a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"228\">Kathmandu. The government has started a review of the free visa, free ticket policy implemented for foreign employment in the Gulf countries after a decade of its implementation. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the Ministry of Labor said they had started studying the positive and negative aspects of the policy.TAG_OPEN_p_5 Foreign employment entrepreneurs have been demanding reforms for a long time, saying that it is difficult to meet the operating expenses of the office and it is necessary to ensure the safety of the workers. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bhuwan Gurung, president of Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs, said, &#8220;The free visa-free ticket policy was implemented without study.TAG_OPEN_p_4 This has challenged both business and the state. An urgent review is needed. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p data-start=\"686\" data-end=\"779\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The Ministry plans to implement necessary reforms in the policy based on the conclusions of the study. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The government has started a review of the free visa, free ticket policy implemented for foreign employment in the Gulf countries after a decade of its implementation. Officials at the Ministry of Labor said they had started studying the positive and negative aspects of the policy.TAG_OPEN_p_5 Foreign employment entrepreneurs have been demanding reforms for<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/68407\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Govt revises visa-free ticket policy after a decade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":68404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0968\u0968 \u092e\u093e\u0918 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0968, \u092c\u093f\u0939\u0940\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u096b:\u0967\u0969","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68408,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68407\/revisions\/68408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}