CNI News
31 August 2024
If the people change from PV (passport for visit) to PJ (passport for job), will they be allowed to go abroad to work? Businessmen and those performing for the issues of migrant workers are asking that question.
If the problems emerged between employers and workers, because the problems could not be solved with PV, if the people went abroad to work, they'd better to go abroad with PJ, Ministry of Labor notified through state-owned media.
Why are the people who will go abroad to work for their families' livelihood and other reasons being controlled?
This question must be asked.
He wondered if the people would be allowed to go abroad easily if they follow the instructions, U Aung Pyit Sone, a businessman, told CNI News.
" How fast will PVs be changed into PJs for those who will go abroad to work? How many OWIC (Overseas Workers Identity Card) cards will be issued? The problem is that
They work outside because the business at home is not good. If the door is closed, they will be only there to starve. If the people do what they ask, will they provide service easily? Because they will allow those who have PJs and OWIC cards. The people with PV went abroad and are working there and the number of them is many. How did they allow them to go abroad? " he said.
Because PJ holders who will go abroad to work are allowed on an age limit, they are making preparations to go abroad with PVs. After those conditions occurred, the passport issuing office banned changing from PJ to PV.
While seeing place inside the Yangon Airport
Allowing those with PJs to go abroad on an age limit has existed up to now; the Ministry of Labor has announced to lift the limitation; however, if those with PVs change to be ones with PJs to go abroad to work, they are questioning whether the restriction will be relaxed.
Not everybody who went abroad with PV was to work there, In charge of labor affairs from the FED, U Min Oo told CNI News.
" Those who will go abroad with PJ must have OWIC cards. They must have jobs in the country where they will go to. Because they have to go abroad with MoU, they don't have enough time to complete all the evidence. So, they went abroad with PVs at first and they work if they are hired for jobs. If they aren't, they won't." he said.
If those with PV went abroad, they would be sent back at the airport; they would be allowed only if there was someone who would give recommendation for them, which are spreading on social media.
Although CNI News asked an official from the immigration department about it, there was no one who would answer the phone.
Government departments are restricting and controlling people who are going to work abroad in all various ways and it affect the State because it could lose tax.
Moreover, it could affect the public livelihood.
So, restricting those who will go abroad to work should relax, pointed out people.
