The immigration department will stop granting work permits and issuing quotas in March.
A Bangladeshi man died last week as hospitals refuse to treat expatriates without passports or work permits.
There was outrage after hundreds of migrant workers were illegally ferried to work.
Around 130,000 migrant workers are believed to live in the Maldives, including 60,000 undocumented ones.
The Maldives Monetary Authority said US$66.8 million dollars was wired as foreign remittance in 2017, with 46 percent of it going to Bangladesh and most of...
There are about 130,000 migrant workers in the Maldives, mostly from other South Asian countries.
There have been regular opposition protests in the capital demanding the release of high-profile prisoners.
Almost 100 expatriates suspected of being undocumented have been taken for screening to the expat detention centre in Hulhumalé Thursday. The Immigration and Emigration Department’s media...
The council ordered all foreign workers to register within five days, imposed a curfew of 10 pm, and prohibited public gatherings with the exception of Friday...
Some 5,000 migrant workers have been repatriated this year due to "irregularities" such as expired work visas and lack of valid travel documents.
The parliament approved Wednesday a new bill imposing a tax of three percent on remittances sent abroad by the Maldives’ expatriate labour force.
“The Bangladeshi man came to the police station and complained that he was being beaten up and ill-treated by his sponsor. External signs of physical abuse...
A fishing boat found a Bangladeshi migrant worker stranded at sea in an alleged to flee from his employers at a resort under construction on a...
More than 60 businesses across the country have been fined by MVR10,000 (US$648) over the past year for employing foreigners, local media report. Small business owners...
A walk to mark the International Migrants Day was cancelled on Friday following alleged interference by the police.
Why a government plan to levy a three percent tax on migrant worker remittances has drawn concern among human rights advocates.
The immigration department has widened the age range for foreign domestic servants, drivers and attendants to between 23 and 58 years of age.
