So we hear a lot about how countries liek Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia etc use slave labor because people from Africa, india, pakistan, bangladesh or whatever come over to work and then they live in horrible conditions and their employers steal their passports so they can’t leave. How does this stop anyone from leaving?
I know for a fact that if you lose a US passport while you are abroad you can go to the embasssy and report it lost and they print an emergency passport which can be used to leave the country. Yesterday i was at an airport in Poland and someone from Italy or something had his passport stolen and he used some document printed by the embassy allowing him to leave. Do countries like india or pakistan or whatever not have these? I get maybe its dificult for africans since many african countries only have a few embassies abroad in other countries or they might not offer many services but can these people who are “enslaved” not just go to their embassies and explain the situation so they can leave teh country? Do their countries just not give a shit that they’re being “enslaved?” I understnad that Gambia or Guinea Bisseau can’t stand up to the UAE but surely India or Pakistan can.
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I have lost a passport abroad once.
My embassy required my birth certificate and another form of ID in order to print me a document saying I could fly home. I had to have my family fedex me my BC. I had to fly to the city that had the embassy, I then had to pay $100USD for that little paper allowing me to fly. Not a new passport. Just a paper allowing me to fly. I spoke the local language fluently. I was not taught to fear the police or threatened with immigration/deportation. My family back home was not being threatened. I had money to cover the travels, documents and mailings required. I also had another form of ID. I was not illegally living or working in the country I lost my passport in.
Now imagine if any of those situations changed. Would I have been able to get the paper needed to fly home?
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