The insurance is being hailed as a step in increasing the attractiveness of the UAE labor market and its ability to attract local and international talent.

World-class infrastructure, successful pandemic response and visa and labor reforms have made the city an ideal destination for expats. Also, the UAE’s stable economy persuades foreigners to make Dubai their second home.

Personal remittances of expatriates in Saudi Arabia jumped 5 percent year-on-year (YoY) to SR14.7 billion ($3.91 billion) in March. Saudi Gazette, citing data released by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), said that compared to the previous month, remittances from expatriates in Saudi Arabia jumped 31 percent, or SR3.5 billion. The...

Saudi Arabia will allow direct entry of fully vaccinated expatriates from Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Vietnam, India and Egypt from December 1 without the need to spend 14 days in transit outside their countries before entering the kingdom, reports said. However, they will have to spend a five-day quarantine regardless of...

Lebanon's diaspora -- estimated to number at least three times the country's 6-million population -- will take part in the vote for the 128-seat parliament, making them a powerful electoral force. In some parts of Europe, volunteers set up registration centers to help compatriots sign up.

The scheme allows them to manage properties from outside the country through law firms or realtors.

Some 200,000 expats leave Oman as country wrestles with rising unemployment The Coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices last year drove the exodus Some 200,000 foreign workers left Oman in a year as the coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices dealt a blow to Omani economy, and the country now...