Oman’s Ministry of Manpower is considering extending the expatriate Visa ban

“I have been looking for a job for four months now and I am currently going through my training period,” she said. “I hope the company I am with will give me a job after this. Many of my friends graduated with me and all of us need jobs now, because we have all graduated and need to find work.”

Sunil Kumar, an Indian manager in the country, added that his company would give first preference to Omanis, saying, “The Omanisation levels in all the fields are clear. It may not be to everyone’s liking, but that is the rule we have to follow. I know there are business owners who have been here for a long time, but the reality is that things will keep changing. Nothing is permanent.”

As per information from the National Center for Statistics and Information, the joblessness rate for Omanis between the ages of 25 and 29 dropped by 13.6 percent in the course of the most recent month, by 11 percent for those somewhere in the range of 30 and 34 years old, and by 7.1 percent for local people from 35 to 39 years old, as organizations have begun supplanting expats with individuals from the neighborhood workforce. 

Between October 2017 and 2018, the quantity of expats in the work drive diminished by 3.4 percent and as of now remains at 1,739,473, down from 1,795,689 in December 2017. The greatest drop was in the development area, which diminished by 13.69% in October 2018. The assembling (5.2%), designing (6.8%), modern (5.9%), mining (6.47%), farming (1.4%), and fund (2.1%) segments demonstrated an ascent in the quantity of Omanis supplanting expat specialists.