Eighty-two Bangladeshis, who were travelling to the United Arab Emirates as migrant workers, were sent back on Monday after visa problems at Dubai airport.
The group of workers could not produce original copies of their visas and only had photocopies, an immigration official said.
The provision for showing original visas has been made to prevent human trafficking as Dubai is one of the main hubs of the illegal activity, Bangladeshi website bdnews24.com reported on Tuesday.
Most of those travelling with photocopied visas are suspected of being victims of traffickers.
The UAE, a relatively new destination for Bangladeshi migrant workers, is the third country to send back Bangladeshis for various irregularities over the past month.
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have deported hundreds of Bangladeshi workers over the past for breaking laws of the host countries.
“Eight-two Bangladeshis returned from the UAE on a Gulf Air flight,” Zia International Airport’s immigration in-charge Tania said.
“As the workers could not produce their original visas on landing at the airport, they were sent straight back,” she said.
According to a Bangladesh-UAE agreement, all passengers must show original visas rather than the photocopies that overseas workers often receive from their employment agents.
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