Egypt's Minister of Immigration, Nabeela Makram AbdalShahed, said she would visit Saudi Arabia to meet the Egyptian representatives there to solve their problems, Al Bawaba News reported Saturday. Ramy Atta, a member of the founding committee of the Association of Youth of the Egyptian community in Riyadh, said that there are four problems facing the expatriates in Saudi Arabia. Atta explained in a statement to Al Bawaba that workers are sometimes deprived of their financial dues and put in deportation prisons for more than five months, adding there are many cases that exist in hospitals in complete coma until they pay the high costs of treatment. Contracts are not reviewed or documented in Egypt before traveling and the minimum wage is always lacked, he added. The fourth problem is the Customs Department's exaggeration of evaluating the expatriates' personal belongings from cars and electric tools, leading many to sell at low prices, he said.
