Spokesperson of the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis said that media reports have quoted that NICOP is not a requirement anymore for overseas Pakistanis, whereas Ministry has only issued directions to not demand NICOP from emigrant workers for registration at its Protectorate of Emigrants Offices.
National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Ordinance 2000 imposed the compulsory requirement of NICOP on the intending emigrants.
Therefore, NICOP became a precondition for protector clearance as no intending emigrant could be registered without having NICOP, he said.
The NICOP fee was outside the operative domain of emigration laws which had always remained a cause of concern for the emigrant community as whole because it leads to the substantial financial burden for them alongside the increased load of work on both the protector and the intending emigrant, he added.
Referring to a meeting between the secretaries of ministries of interior and OP&HRD, he said, it had been decided that Protector of Emigrants will not insist for the NICOP to protect clearance of the passports of intending emigrants.
The directions had been issued to all the offices of Protector of Emigrants that NICOP was not to be demanded at the time of registration. If an emigrant who intended work in another country produced a valid Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC), his/her registration would be done.
The spokesman said that the Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment and Overseas Employment Corporation had already been directed to comply with the orders.
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