The Visa Support Services Department at the General Directorate of Passports has held a seminar for various Ministry of Interior (MoI) department directors and committee heads on the project pertaining to the completion of work visa procedures in the home countries of expatriates. These procedures include fingerprinting, biometric data processing, medical examination and signing of the labour contract. These steps will be completed through visa services centres to be set up in different countries. Maj Abdullah Khalifa al-Mohannadi, director of the Visa Support Services Department, explained the project and noted that it will be implemented in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal and Tunisia in the first phase. The session is the latest in a series of seminars held by the MoI to introduce the new system of completing residency permit (RP) procedures in the home countries of expatriates.