Saudi Arabia's Labor Ministry is ‘studying a proposal’ to restrict expatriate workers’ period of stay in the Kingdom to a maximum of eight years, a report said. The move also aims to discourage them from bringing their families to the Kingdom. I am not watching any positive outcome of such proposal. First of all, this is inhumane to stop the foreigners from bringing their families. It will also discourage foreign professionals from working in the Kingdom and leave a negative impact on local businesses. Saudi Arabia is investing a lot on infrastructure and it needs skilled and unskilled manpower. So it is useless to think that Saudi Arabia can be developed after becoming an ‘expat-less’ country. There will be a sudden surge in expats' foreign remittances if the expats keep their families in their home countries. They will send all the money to their families back home and this will affect the Kingdom’s economy badly. Ministry should rather encourage bringing expat-families to Kingdom, so the expat will spend the earned money here. Restricting expatriate workers’ period of stay in the kingdom to 8 years is a clueless point in the proposal. Companies will never be able to excel by sending back the experienced expatriates after 8 years. They will just be trapped in hiring, firing and training new staff. This law will only change faces of foreign workers. No transition of work from foreigner to local Saudis is seen in this proposal. This is a good step to eliminate all illegals from Saudi Arabia like many other countries of the world. But accepting this ‘pointless proposal’ as a law will not bring any sensible, civilized and humane change in Kingdom.
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