Over staying due to expiry of visas:

Measures to bring house maids home

The Sri Lanka Embassy in Jordan, will take immediate measures to bring back the Sri Lankan housemaids who have overstayed due to the expiry of visas, Foreign Employment Bureau Chairman Kingsley Ranawaka said. He said that necessary action would be taken to negotiate with the Jordan government to bring them back to Sri Lanka as soon as possible. They would be brought back to Sri Lanka without being liable to pay any fine for the period of overstay.

The Sri Lanka Embassy in Jordan has already requested the Labour Ministry in Jordan to negotiate, but they have not done so yet. A large number of Sri Lankan domestic workers have protested in front of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Amman, Jordan on Monday demanding that the government allow them to leave the country.

Some of the housemaids were still waiting to go home at the Sri Lanka Embassy in Jordan.