Country

Ministry

Department or agency

List of licensed recruitment agencies

Steps of recruitment for overseas employment

Afghanistan

Afghanistan Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled

Employment Services Center (ESC)

Bangladesh

Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment

Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET)

Bangladesh Overseas Employment & Services Ltd.

http://www.bmet.gov.bd
/BMET/agentlistpreview.action?type=valid

Recruitment Procedure of Bangladesh for Foreign Employment

China

Ministry of Commerce

Department of International Trade and Economic Affairs

Department of Outward and Investment and Economic Cooperation

http://zsmbhzs.mofcom.gov.cn/fecp/
zsmb/corp/corp_ml_list1.jsp?ly=wplw

Steps of Recruitment for Overseas Employment - China (in Chinese)

India

Ministry of External Affairs

http://poeonline.gov.in/

Indonesia

Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration

Direktorat Penempatan Tenaga Kerja Luar Negeri (Directorate of Overseas Workers Placement)

515 (number as of Feb 2015)

Referring to Ministerial Regulation No. 22 Year 2014

1. Prospective workers register to seek for overseas employment in District Manpower Office


2. The licensed recruitment agency recruits potential workers in lieu of the job order acknowledged by Indonesian Embassy.


3. The District Manpower Office together with recruitment agency hold a one-day orientation session for registered prospective workers at the Office on job available, location, requirements, duration, etc.


4. Pre selection involves observation on administrative documentation and skills of prospective workers. Having been selected, the workers sign the placement agreement and pay pre insurance cost.


5. Upon selection process, the prospective workers are required to participate in a comprehensive training (language, skills, motivation, etc.).


6.  The workers receive the certificate licensed by Government upon participating in trainings.


7.  The workers are required to undergo medical and psychological test.


8. The worker sign contract while at the same time participating in pre departure orientation session.


9. The worker departs and starts to work.

Nepal

Ministry of Labour and Employment

Foreign Employment Promotion Board

Department of Foreign Employment

Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (NAFEA)

Prior approval to be obtained:

1. A licensee shall make an application setting out the following details, based on the agreement or understanding made with an employer institution, to the Department for prior approval to send workers for foreign employment:-

• Name and address of the employer institution and country where workers are to be sent,

• Type of foreign employment,

• Type and number of workers,

• Salary, facilities and leave to be obtained by workers,

• Working days and time to be done by the workers.

• Original copy of the demand letter and authority certified by the authentic body or diplomatic mission or labor attaché or chamber of commerce or notary public of the country where workers go for foreign employment,

• A copy of the contract to be made between the employer institution and workers, 

• A copy of the contract to be made between the licensee and workers,

• Other matters as prescribed.

2. If, on inquiring into the application made pursuant to Sub-section (1), the demand of the licensee appears appropriate, the Department shall, no later than four days after the date of application, give prior approval to start action to send Nepalese workers for foreign employment.


3. Notwithstanding anything contained in Sub-section (2), the Department shall not give prior approval to select workers under any of the following conditions:-

• The terms and conditions of service and facilities are not satisfactory in proportion to the qualification of the worker demanded by the employer institution,

• The proposed foreign employment seems to be of such nature as to have adverse effect on the dignity, prestige or health of workers,

• It appears inappropriate from security perspective,

• There exist other conditions as prescribed.

4. If a decision is made not to give prior approval pursuant to Subsection (3), information thereof, accompanied by the reason for the same, shall be given to the applicant.

Publication of advertisement: 

1. On receipt of approval pursuant to Section 15, the licensee shall publish an advertisement in a daily newspaper of national circulation to be published in the Nepali language, setting out the details as prescribed and giving the time-limit of at least seven days, for the selection of the workers.


2. The concerned licensee shall post a notice of advertisement published pursuant to Sub-section (1) on the notice-board of its office and submit a copy of that notice to the Department on the same day.


3. After the publication of advertisement pursuant to Sub-section (1), a person who intends to go for foreign employment shall make an application, accompanied by the prescribed details, to the licensee.

List to be prepared after selecting workers: 

1. Upon receipt of an application pursuant to Sub-section (3) of Section 15, the licensee shall select workers on the grounds of qualification and experience of applicants and other matters as prescribed, according to the nature of work demanded. The licensee shall prepare a list of selected persons, post such list on the notice board of the office of the licensee and submit a copy thereof to the Department.


2. If a complaint is made by any person or the Department itself receives an information in any manner that any irregularity has been made in the preparation of workers list pursuant to Sub-section (1), the Department may immediately make necessary inquiry there into; and if, in making such inquiry, it appears that any irregularity has been made as mentioned in the complaint or petition, the Department shall give order to immediately stop all acts relating to the selection of workers.

Provisions relating to labor permission sticker: 

1. After receiving visas of workers selected pursuant to Section 17 and before sending such workers for foreign employment, the licensee shall make a submission, accompanied by the following details, to the Department for labor  permission sticker:-

• In the event that skill-oriented training is required for any work, a certificate of such training and a certificate of orientation training,

• Health certificate,

• Insurance certificate,

• Contract made between the licensee and the worker,

• Contract made between the employer institution and the worker,

• A receipt or bank voucher of amount paid by the worker to the licensee,(g) Other matters as prescribed.

2. If, in examining the details submitted pursuant to Sub-section (1), the details are found to be in conformity with the details submitted pursuant to Section 15, the Department shall affix the labor permission sticker on the passport of such worker.


3. If the information provided pursuant to Sub-section (1) is found to be inconsistent with the details submitted pursuant to Section 15, the Department may prevent the licensee from sending workers for foreign employment, and the information, accompanied by the reason for such prevention, shall be given to the licensee.

To send for foreign employment:

1. upon giving information pursuant to Section 19, the licensee shall send the concerned worker for foreign employment within the specified period to enter into the concerned country, if any, and within three months if such period is not specified


2. In the event of failure to send a worker for foreign employment within the time-limit as referred to in Sub-section (1), the concerned licensee shall return the amount received from the concerned worker, as well as an interest on that amount at the rate of twenty percent per annum, to the concerned worker within thirty days.


3. If, after having obtained a visa, any worker refuses or is not able to go for foreign employment, the licensee shall, in returning the amount to the worker, return the remaining amount to be set after deducting the visa fee only.
   
   Provided that if the worker refuses to go by the reason of any terms different than those advertised by obtaining prior approval, the visa fee shall not be deducted.

Pakistan

Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource Development

Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment

Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC)

Directorate of Information Technology, Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment

Philippines

Department of Labour and Employment

Philippine Overseas Employment Administration

Philippine Overseas Employment Administration

http://www.poea.gov.ph/about/hiring.htm m

Sri Lanka

Ministry of Foreign Employment

Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment

Recruitment Procedure of Sri Lanka for Foreign Employment

Association of Licensed Foreign Employment Agencies (ALFEA)

Thailand

Ministry of Labour

Thailand Overseas Employment Administration (TOEA)

Thailand Overseas Employment Administration

Vietnam

Ministry of Labour Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA)

Department of Overseas Labour

Management Department of Foreign Workers

Vietnam Association of Manpower Supply (VAMAS)