Kathmandu, June 23 -- Indra Dev Yadav from ward 5 of Bariyarpatti in Siraha has spent the past two months visiting manpower companies in search of overseas employment.

He arrived in Kathmandu in the third week of March, hoping to secure a job in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Since then, he has attended interviews at four different recruiting firms, but his name has not appeared on any selection list.

"I thought paying the money would guarantee me a job abroad, but that's not how it works," he said on Friday while waiting in line for an interview at a manpower agency in Basundhara, Kathmandu. "I keep failing the interviews. This is my fifth attempt."

Yadav was attending an interview for a job in Malaysia after responding to a recruit...