Foreign-employment journey
Questions and checks for every stage
This is general awareness guidance. Verify your individual case with the relevant official authority or qualified professional.
- Before considering foreign employment
Clarify your goal, skills, health, family responsibilities, expected costs, and acceptable risks. - Choosing a legitimate pathway
Use official information and verify whether the recruiter, institution, or program is authorized. - Verifying recruiters and employers
Check identities, licenses where applicable, employer details, written contacts, and official records. - Reviewing offers and contracts
Compare job title, workplace, salary, deductions, hours, leave, accommodation, insurance, and return terms. - Understanding costs
Ask for a written breakdown and official receipts. Do not rely on verbal promises or personal-account transfers. - Labor approval and documentation awareness
Confirm the required official approvals and make copies of important documents before departure. - Insurance and welfare awareness
Understand coverage, exclusions, claims, welfare provisions, beneficiaries, and contact channels. - Pre-departure preparation
Keep emergency contacts, document copies, contract details, medication information, and safe communication plans. - Working abroad
Keep records of wages, hours, communications, receipts, and any difference between the contract and actual work. - Handling disputes or danger
Prioritize immediate safety and contact the appropriate police, emergency, embassy, labor, legal, medical, or welfare channel. - Returning home
Plan documents, final payments, claims, health needs, travel, and family communication. - Reintegration
Seek guidance on skills, livelihoods, financial planning, family adjustment, and available local support.