Out of the 286,000 illegal workers in the UAE, 70,000 Indians have left and the remaining 40,000 have found jobs or adjusted their job status in the country under the recently concluded amnesty offer.
Nearly 110,000 Indians took advantage of the amnesty offered by the UAE government to correct their job status or leave the country.
"About 286,000 workers either corrected their status or left the country during the three-month amnesty period, which started June 3, indicating that the violators responded positively to the amnesty offer as the statistics and records show", said Assistant Undersecretary of Labour, Obaid Rashid Al Zahmi.
The amnesty offered by the UAE Cabinet to help illegal