The effects of the global economic recession after the covid epidemic have also started to be felt in Nepal. 

The Department of Labor and Occupational Safety has stated that the number of foreign workers coming here for employment has decreased.

Compared to the previous financial year, the number of foreigners who received work permits has decreased by 10 percent. In the F.Y. 2079/80, the number was 2,994, which has been reduced to 2,685 in the last fiscal year.

Among the citizens of 96 countries who have taken labour permits for employment in Nepal, Chinese citizens rank at first. 

There is a provision in the Labor Act that states that the establishments operating in Nepal can hire only 5 percent foreign workers.

Although the 2075 guideline for the labour permit system of foreign nationals provides that skilled manpower who are not available in Nepal can be imported and employed, it is found that even unskilled workers come to Nepal due to the arrangement of allowing foreign workers to be employed in the amount decided according to the agreements with various agencies of the Government of Nepal.