Jordan gives Egyptian workers overstaying visas chance to legalize status
quo
Sat, 29/08/2015 - 10:47 MENA
http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/jordan-gives-egyptian-workers-overstaying-visas-chance-legalize-status-quo

Egypt's Manpower Minister Nahed Ashri on Friday said she received a letter
from her Jordanian counterpart Nidal Qatamin, stating that Egyptian workers
overstaying their visas will be given a chance until October 1 to legalize
their status quo and renew their expired permits.

They should do so before the deadline or else face deportation, the letter
added.

The Egyptian minister urged Egyptian workers in Jordan to visit the website
of the Jordanian Ministry of Labor to check if they are included.

Names of all workers overstaying their visas are posted on the ministry's
website, Ashri said.

About 65.3 percent of 324,410 foreign workers in Jordan are Egyptians, the
Jordanian ministry had said in an earlier statement.

The Jordanian security forces are launching wide-scale campaigns to arrest
workers with no official papers .