A total of 84,526 expatriates who arrived in Bahrain on tourist visas managed to get residence visas between 2019 and February 2023.
Labour Minister and Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) chairman Jameel Humaidan released the updated figures while responding to a question by the parliamentary committee in charge of probing the performance of the LMRA, according to a report in our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej.
In 2022, a total of 45,204 expatriates on tourism visas secured residence permits (work permits).
Meanwhile, 7,870 expatriates were issued work permits over the first two months of this year.
Tourism visas which were turned into residence permits topped 13,078 in 2019, 7,942 in 2020 and 9,424 in 2021 respectively.
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