Lok Sabha Question No. 2370 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-02-13
Subject: Indian Youth Duped by Travel Agents
Ministry: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2370

ANSWERED ON 13/02/2026

INDIAN YOUTH DUPED BY TRAVEL AGENTS

2370.  SMT. HARSIMRAT KAUR BADAL Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:(a) whether the Government is aware of the growing number of Indian youth, particularly from Punjab and other northern States, being duped by unscrupulous travel and immigration agents who send them abroad through illegal 'donkey routes' or fraudulent visas, resulting in their detention and deportation by foreign authorities; (b) if so, the number of such youth sent through such fraudulent ways and routes; (c) the number of Indian nationals deported from foreign countries in the last five years, country-wise and year-wise;

(d) whether any assessment has been made on victims of such illegal agents, if so, the details thereof; (e) the number of FIRs registered and prosecutions launched against illegal   travel/immigration   agents   in   Punjab   and   other   major   source States over the last three years, including those booked under anti human smuggling laws; and (f) the steps taken or proposed by the Government publicise the list of blacklisted/unauthorised agents?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

## (SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH)

(a to c)  Government has been made aware of instances where dubious entities   involved   in   fake   recruitment   job   offers   have   lured   Indian nationals including from Punjab and other northern States, mostly through social media channels for overseas employment to various countries. Such fraudulent activities of illegal/unscrupulous recruitment   agents   in   the   country   come   to   light   as   and   when   a

complaint is filed by the aggrieved emigrants or their relatives/friends/family members, who have been cheated, since these Indian   nationals   proceed   abroad   on   their   own   volition   through fraudulent/unscrupulous   recruitment   agents   and   through   illegal channels. Specific data on the number of Indian nationals who have attempted such irregular migration, is not available.

Most of the foreign Governments do not provide information on illegal stay by foreigners in their countries, except when they are under orders of deportation and travel document/nationality verification is required. The procedure followed for deportation of foreign nationals also varies from country to country. Some countries do not arrest the deportee   but   keep   them   in   detention/deportation   centers   until deportation. Information about arrest/detention and deportation is not shared with Indian Missions/Posts and the deportation is done directly by the host Government if the deportee has a valid Indian travel document.   Indian   Missions/Posts   are   contacted   by   the   host Governments only in such cases where nationality verification and

issuance of Emergency Certificate (EC) to the deportee is required. However, based on information available with our Missions abroad, country-wise   and   year-wise   data   of   Indian   nationals   deported   for various reasons in the last five years, is given in  Annexure-A.

(d   to   f) As   per   Section   10   of   the   Emigration   Act,   1983,   no person/agency can function as Recruiting Agent (RA) without a valid Registration Certificate (RC) issued by the Registering Authority, i.e., Protector General of Emigrants (PGE). As and when complaints of illegal   migration/human   trafficking   are   received,   such   matters   are referred to the State police for investigation and prosecution under the relevant legal provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and other legislations in place.

State-wise details of complaints registered and action taken by law enforcement agencies against unregistered/illegal recruiting agents during the last three years are given in Annexure-B.

Ministry   issues   advisories   through   eMigrate   portal,   social   media handles, and other modes of publicity about the perils of fake job rackets and ways to prevent the same. Till January 2026, a list of 3,505   unregistered   agents,   against   whom   grievances   have   been received, has been published on the eMigrate portal to caution the prospective emigrants. The awareness campaign on safe and legal migration through eMigrate portal has been carried out by the Ministry across the country by conducting workshops, trainings, information sessions, digital campaigns for media groups, police officials and law enforcement agencies, local administration, aspiring recruiting agents, entrepreneurs and general public. During these sessions awareness on emigration regulations, schemes beneficial for emigrants like Pravasi Bharatiya   Bima   Yojana   (PBBY),   Pre-Departure   Orientation   Training (PDOT),   eMigrate   portal   and   various   advisories   issued   by   Indian Embassies are brought to the notice of all stakeholders. The Protector General of Emigrants (PGE) in the Ministry of External Affairs through 16 Protector of Emigrants (PoEs) across India, regularly coordinates with the State Governments regarding issues of illegal

recruiting agencies and the ways to address challenges related to enforcement   of   emigration   rules   and   regulations.   The   Ministry regularly   organises   such   outreach   programs   to   sensitise   various stakeholders   about   the   benefits   of   safe   and   legal   migration   and suggests ways to prevent illegal migration through fake/unregistered recruitment agencies. In addition to the regular information sharing on unregistered recruiting agencies, regular meetings with the State level Nodal Officer are held. Further, workshops & training sessions are held by   the   Ministry   for   the   law   enforcement   agencies   of   the   State Governments   in   which   information   on   the   Standard   Operating Procedures (SOP) of the Ministry, detection of unlawful content on social media, and case studies of Cyber Scamming is shared with the participants.

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## Annexure-A

## DATA ON INDIAN NATIONALS DEPORTED FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES

| Sl. No.   | Name of the Country   | Name of the Mission/Post   |   Number of Indian nationals deported from foreign countries |   Number of Indian nationals deported from foreign countries |   Number of Indian nationals deported from foreign countries |   Number of Indian nationals deported from foreign countries |   Number of Indian nationals deported from foreign countries |
|-----------|-----------------------|----------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| Sl. No.   | Name of the Country   | Name of the Mission/Post   |                                                         2021 |                                                         2022 |                                                         2023 |                                                         2024 |                                                         2025 |
| 1         | Afghanistan           | EOI, Kabul                 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |
| 2         | Albania               | EOI, Tirana                |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |
| 3         | Algeria               | EOI, Algiers               |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            1 |                                                            2 |
| 4         | Angola                | HCI, Luanda                |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |
| 5         | Argentina             | EOI, Buenos Aires          |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |
| 6         | Armenia               | EOI, Yerevan               |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |
| 7         | Australia             | HCI, Canberra              |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            9 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |
| 8         |                       | CGI, Melbourne             |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |
| 9         |                       | CGI, Sydney                |                                                            0 |                                                            2 |                                                            7 |                                                           28 |                                                           16 |
| 10        |                       | CGI, Perth                 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |                                                            0 |

|   11 |            | CGI, Brisbane    |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   3 |
|------|------------|------------------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
|   12 | Austria    | EOI, Vienna      |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   13 | Azerbaijan | EOI, Baku        |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   14 | Bahrain    | EOI, Bahrain     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   15 | Bangladesh | HCI, Dhaka       |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   16 | Bangladesh | AHCI, Chittagong |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   17 | Bangladesh | AHCI, Khulna     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   18 | Bangladesh | AHCI, Rajshahi   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   19 | Bangladesh | AHCI, Sylhet     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   20 | Belarus    | EOI, Minsk       |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   21 | Belgium    | EOI, Brussels    |   0 |  10 |  19 |   5 |   4 |
|   22 | Belize     | EOI, Mexico city |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |

|   23 |              | EOI, Thimphu      |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |
|------|--------------|-------------------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
|   24 | Bhutan       | CGI, Phuntsholing |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   25 | Bolivia      | EOI, La Paz       |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   26 | Botswana     | HCI, Gaborone     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   27 | Brazil       | EOI, Brasilia     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   28 | Brazil       | CGI, Sao Paulo    |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   29 | Bulgaria     | EOI, Sofia        |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   30 | Burkina Faso | EOI, Ouagadougou  |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   31 | Cabo Verde   | EOI, Praia        |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   32 | Cambodia     | EOI, Phnom Penh   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   33 | Cameroon     | HCI, Yaounde      |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   34 | Canada       | HCI, Ottawa       |   3 |  26 |  48 |  30 |  48 |

|   35 |               | CGI, Toronto      |   27 |   38 |   60 |   63 |   198 |
|------|---------------|-------------------|------|------|------|------|-------|
|   36 |               | CGI, Vancouver    |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   37 | Chad          | EOI, N'Djamena    |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   38 | Chile         | EOI, Santiago     |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   39 | China         | EOI, Beijing      |    5 |    5 |    3 |    4 |     7 |
|   40 |               | CGI, Shanghai     |    3 |    1 |    2 |    1 |     1 |
|   41 |               | CGI, Guangzhou    |    1 |    6 |   21 |   26 |     8 |
|   42 |               | CGI, Hong Kong    |  123 |  166 |  207 |  201 |   300 |
|   43 | Colombia      | EOI, Bogota       |    0 |    0 |    0 |   60 |     0 |
|   44 | Comoros       | EOI, Antananarivo |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   45 | Cote D'Ivoire | EOI, Abidjan      |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   46 | Croatia       | EOI, Zagreb       |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   47 | Cuba          | EOI, Havana       |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |

|   48 | Cyprus                       | EOI, Nicosia       |   46 |   96 |   173 |   183 |   163 |
|------|------------------------------|--------------------|------|------|-------|-------|-------|
|   49 | Czech Republic               | EOI, Prague        |    0 |    0 |     0 |     0 |     0 |
|   50 | Democratic Republic of Congo | EOI, Kinshasa      |    0 |    0 |     0 |     0 |     0 |
|   51 | Denmark                      | EOI, Copenhagen    |    0 |    0 |     0 |     0 |     0 |
|   52 | Djibouti                     | EOI, Djibouti      |    0 |    0 |     0 |     0 |     0 |
|   53 | Dominican Republic           | EOI, Santo Domingo |    0 |    0 |     0 |     0 |     0 |
|   54 | Ecuador                      | EOI, Quito         |    0 |    0 |     0 |     0 |     0 |
|   55 | Egypt                        | EOI, Cairo         |    0 |    0 |     2 |     0 |     0 |
|   56 | Equatorial Guinea            | EOI, Malabo        |    0 |    0 |     0 |     0 |     0 |
|   57 | Eritrea                      | EOI, Asmara        |    0 |    0 |     0 |     0 |     0 |

| 58         | Estonia                           | EOI, Tallinn     | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|------------|-----------------------------------|------------------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
| 59         | Eswatini                          | HCI, Mbabane     | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 60         | Ethiopia                          | EOI, Addis Ababa | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 61         | Fiji                              | HCI, Suva        | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 62         | Finland                           | EOI, Helsinki    | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 63         | France                            | EOI, Paris       | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 64         | CGI, Marseille                    |                  | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   5 |
| 65         | CGI, Saint Denis (Reunion Island) |                  | 0   |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |
| 66         | Gabon                             | HCI, Libreville  | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 67 Georgia | EOI,                              | Tbilisi          | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 | 155 |
| 68         | Germany                           | EOI, Berlin      | 0   |   0 |   0 |  79 |  16 |
| 69         | CGI, Frankfurt                    | 0                |     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 70         | CGI, Hamburg                      | 0                |     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |

|   71 |           | CGI, Munich         |   0 | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|------|-----------|---------------------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
|   72 | Ghana     | HCI, Accra          |   0 | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   73 | Greece    | EOI, Athens         |   0 | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   74 | Guatemala | EOI, Guatemala City |   0 | 0   |   0 |   0 |   4 |
|   75 | Guyana    | HCI, Georgetown     |   0 | 0   |   0 |  11 |   5 |
|   76 | Hungary   | EOI, Budapest       |   0 | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   77 | Iceland   | EOI, Reykjavik      |   0 | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   78 | Indonesia | EOI, Jakarta        |   0 | o   |   0 |   0 |  11 |
|   79 |           | CGI, Medan          |   0 | 11  |   0 |   0 |   3 |
|   80 |           | CGI, Bali           |   5 | 0   |  20 |  20 |  10 |
|   81 | Iran      | EOI, Tehran         |   0 | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   82 |           | CGI, Bandar         |   0 | 0   |   0 |   0 |   0 |

|    |            | Abbas          |    |    |    |    |    |
|----|------------|----------------|----|----|----|----|----|
| 83 |            | CGI, Zahedan   |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |
| 84 | Iraq       | EOI, Baghdad   |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |
| 85 |            | CGI, Erbil     |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |
| 86 | Ireland    | EOI, Dublin    |  0 |  0 |  0 |  2 |  5 |
| 87 | Israel     | EOI, Tel Aviv  |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |
| 88 | Italy      | EOI, Rome      |  1 |  2 |  2 |  6 |  9 |
| 89 |            | CGI, Milan     |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |
| 90 | Jamaica    | HCI, Kingston  |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |
| 91 | Japan      | EOI, Tokyo     | 23 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 12 |
| 92 |            | CGI, Oska Kobe |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |
| 93 |            | CGI, Fukuoka   |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |
| 94 | Jordan     | EOI, Amman     | 24 | 28 | 59 | 79 | 61 |
| 95 | Kazakhstan | EOI, Astana    |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |  0 |

|   96 |            | ROI, Almaty       |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|------|------------|-------------------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
|   97 | Kenya      | HCI, Nairobi      |   0 |   0 |   1 |   1 |   1 |
|   98 |            | AHCI, Mombasa     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   99 | Kuwait     | EOI, Kuwait       |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|  100 | Kyrgyzstan | EOI, Bishkek      |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|  101 | Lao PDR    | EOI, Vientiane    |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|  102 | Latvia     | EOI, Riga         |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|  103 | Lebanon    | EOI, Beirut       |   2 |   3 |   1 |   5 |   2 |
|  104 | Liberia    | EOI, Monrovia     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|  105 | Libya      | EOI, Tripoli      |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|  106 | Lithuania  | EOI, Vilnius      |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   4 |
|  107 | Madagascar | EOI, Antananarivo |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|  108 | Malawi     | HCI, Lilongwe     |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |

|   109 | Malaysia   | HCI, Kuala Lumpur   |   1439 |   1188 |   1182 |   1259 | 1675   |
|-------|------------|---------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
|   110 | Maldives   | HCI, Male           |     16 |     30 |    117 |    194 | 150    |
|   111 | Mali       | EOI, Bamako         |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 | 0      |
|   112 | Malta      | EOI, Malta          |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 | 3      |
|   113 | Mauritania | EOI, Nouakchott     |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 | 0      |
|   114 | Mauritius  | HCI, Port Louis     |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 | 0      |
|   115 | Mexico     | EOI, Mexico City    |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 | 0      |
|   116 | Mongolia   | EOI, Ulaanbaatar    |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 | 0      |
|   117 | Morocco    | EOI, Rabat          |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 | 0      |
|   118 | Mozambique | HCI, Maputo         |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 | 0      |
|   119 | Myanmar    | EOI, Yangoon        |      0 |    338 |     89 |    148 | 1,605  |
|   120 |            | CGI, Mandalay       |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 | 0      |

| 121             |                 | CGI, Sittwe     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
| 122             | Namibia         | HCI, Windhoek   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 123             | Nepal           | EOI, Kathmandu  |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 124             |                 | CGI, Birgunj    |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 125             | Netherlands     | EOI, The Hague  |   0 |  10 |  58 |  11 |   3 |
| 126             | New Zealand     | EOI, Wellington |   9 |  20 |  19 |  20 |   6 |
| 127             |                 | CGI, Auckland   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 128             | Niger           | EOI, Niamey     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 129             | Nigeria         | HCI, Abuja      |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |
| 130             |                 | AHCI, Lagos     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 131 North Korea | 131 North Korea | EOI, Pyongyang  |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 132             | Norway          | EOI, Oslo       |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 133             | Oman            | EOI, Muscat     |  50 |  57 |  47 |  25 |  25 |
| 134 Pakistan    | 134 Pakistan    | HCI, Islamabad  |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |

|   135 | Palestine          | ROI, Ramallah     |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     |   0 |
|-------|--------------------|-------------------|-----|-------|-------|-------|-----|
|   136 | Panama             | EOI, Panama       |   0 | 0     | 0     | 215   |  79 |
|   137 | Papua New Guinea   | HCI, Port Moresby |   0 | 0     | 1     | 1     |   0 |
|   138 | Paraguay           | EOI, Asuncion     |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     |   0 |
|   139 | Peru               | EOI, Lima         |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     |   0 |
|   140 | Phillipines        | EOI, Manila       |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     |   0 |
|   141 | Poland             | EOI, Warsaw       |  14 | 63    | 24    | 14    |  12 |
|   142 | Qatar              | EOI, Doha         | 803 | 1,170 | 1,414 | 1,136 | 796 |
|   143 | Republic of Congo  | EOI, Brazzaville  |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     |   0 |
|   144 | Republic of Guinea | EOI, Conakry      |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     |   0 |
|   145 | Romania            | EOI, Bucharest    |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     |   0 |
|   146 | Russia             | EOI, Moscow       |   0 | 0     | 0     | 35    | 284 |

|   147 |                                                  | CGI, St. Petersburg   |     0 |     0 |     0 |    0 |    0 |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------|-----------------------|-------|-------|-------|------|------|
|   148 |                                                  | CGI, Vladivostok      |     0 |     0 |     0 |    0 |    1 |
|   149 |                                                  | CGI, Kazan            |     0 |     0 |     0 |    0 |    0 |
|   150 |                                                  | CGI, Yekaterinaburg   |     0 |     0 |     0 |    0 |    0 |
|   151 | Rwanda                                           | HCI, Kigali           |     0 |     0 |     0 |    0 |    0 |
|   152 | Sao Tome and Principe EOI, Sao Tome and Principe |                       |     0 |     0 |     0 |    0 |    0 |
|   153 | Saudi Arabia                                     | EOI, Riyadh           | 10264 | 28056 | 29592 | 5235 | 4335 |
|   154 |                                                  | CGI, Jeddah           | 12104 |  6746 |  7542 | 8831 | 8921 |
|   155 | Senegal                                          | EOI, Dakar            |     0 |     0 |     0 |    0 |    0 |
|   156 | Serbia                                           | EOI, Belgrade         |     7 |    68 |     2 |    5 |   10 |
|   157 | Seychelles                                       | HCI, Victoria, Mahe   |     0 |     0 |     0 |    0 |    0 |

| 158 Sierra Leone   | EOI, Freetown   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|--------------------|-----------------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
| 159 Singapore      | HCI, Singapore  |  22 |  16 |  21 |  13 |  15 |
| 160 Slovakia       | EOI, Bratislava |  12 |   2 |   0 |   8 |  27 |
| 161 Slovenia       | EOI, Ljubljana  |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 162 South Africa   | HCI, Pretoria   |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 163                | CGI Johanesburg |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 164                | CGI, Cape Town  |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |
| 165                | CGI, Durban     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 166 South Korea    | EOI, Seoul      |   5 |   7 |   4 |   0 |   0 |
| 167 South Sudan    | EOI, Juba       |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 168 Spain          | EOI, Madrid     |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 169                | CGI, Barcelona  |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
| 170 Sri Lanka      | HCI, Colombo    |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |

|   171 |             | AHCI, Kandy              |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|-------|-------------|--------------------------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
|   172 |             | CGI, Jaffna              |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   173 |             | CGI, Hambantota          |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   174 | Sudan       | EOI, Khartoum            |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   175 | Suriname    | EOI, Paramaribo          |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   176 | Sweden      | EOI, Stockholm           |   3 |   1 |  27 |  16 |  13 |
|   177 | Switzerland | EOI, Bern                |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   178 |             | CGI, Geneva              |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   179 | Syria       | EOI, Damascus            |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   180 | Taiwan      | India Taipei Association |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   181 | Tajikistan  | EOI, Dushanbe            |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |
|   182 | Tanzania    | HCI, Dar-e- Salaam       |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |

|   183 |                   | CGI, Zanzibar      |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     | 0     |
|-------|-------------------|--------------------|-----|-------|-------|-------|-------|
|   184 | Thailand          | EOI, Bangkok       |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     | 0     |
|   185 |                   | COI, Chiangmai     |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     | 0     |
|   186 | Timor Leste       | EOI, Dili          |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     | 0     |
|   187 | Togo              | EOI, Lome          |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     | 0     |
|   188 | Trinidad & Tobago | HCI, Port of Spain |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     | 0     |
|   189 | Tunisia           | EOI, Tunis         |   0 | 3     | 2     | 0     | 0     |
|   190 | Turkiye           | EOI, Ankara        |  15 | 47    | 23    | 10    | 3     |
|   191 |                   | CGI, Istanbul      |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     | 0     |
|   192 | Turkmenistan      | EOI, Ashgabat      |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     | 0     |
|   193 | UAE               | EOI, Abu Dhabi     | 358 | 587   | 666   | 899   | 1,662 |
|   194 |                   | CGI, Dubai         | 876 | 1,203 | 2,841 | 5,221 | 7,896 |
|   195 | Uganda            | HCI, Kampala       |   0 | 0     | 0     | 0     | 0     |

|   196 | Ukraine        | EOI, Kyiv         |   21 |   13 |   11 | 5     | 5                        |
|-------|----------------|-------------------|------|------|------|-------|--------------------------|
|   197 | United Kingdom | HCI, London       |    0 |    0 |    0 | 0     | 0                        |
|   198 | United Kingdom | CGI, Birmingham   |    0 |    0 |    0 | 0     | 0                        |
|   199 | United Kingdom | CGI, Edinburgh    |    0 |    0 |    0 | 0     | 0                        |
|   200 | United Kingdom | CGI, Manchester   |    0 |    0 |    0 | 0     | 0                        |
|   201 | United Kingdom | CGI, Belfast      |    0 |    0 |    0 | 0     | 0                        |
|   202 | Uruguay        | EOI, Buenos Aires |    0 |    0 |    0 | 0     | 0                        |
|   203 | USA            | EOI, Washington   |  805 |  862 |  617 | 1,368 | 3414 (till mid Dec 2025) |
|   204 | USA            | CGI, New York     |   16 |   11 |   18 | 26    | 47                       |
|   205 | USA            | CGI, Chicago      |    0 |    0 |    0 | 0     | 0                        |
|   206 | USA            | CGI, Atlanta      |   14 |   10 |    5 | 14    | 31                       |

|   207 |            | CGI, Houston          |   29 |   32 |   14 |   42 |   234 |
|-------|------------|-----------------------|------|------|------|------|-------|
|   208 |            | CGI, San Fransisco    |   18 |   43 |   19 |   17 |    49 |
|   209 |            | CGI, Seattle          |    0 |    0 |    0 |    3 |    31 |
|   210 |            | CGI, Los Angeles      |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   211 | Uzbekistan | EOI, Tashkent         |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   212 | Venezuela  | EOI, Caracas          |    0 |    0 |    0 |   14 |     0 |
|   213 | Vietnam    | EOI, Hanoi            |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   214 |            | CGI, Ho Chi Minh City |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   215 | Yemen      | EOI, Riyadh           |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   216 | Zambia     | HCI, Lusaka           |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |
|   217 | Zimbabwe   | EOI, Harare           |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |     0 |

## Annexure-B

## Data regarding data on action taken on unauthorized/illegal recruiting agents [2023 - 2025]

| Sl. No.                | State/UT   |   Number of Complaints |   Number of Complaints |   Number of Complaints |   ATR Submitted/FIR Registered by State/UT Police |   ATR Submitted/FIR Registered by State/UT Police |   ATR Submitted/FIR Registered by State/UT Police |   Number of Cases in which request for issue of prosecution sanction after investigation received |   Number of Cases in which request for issue of prosecution sanction after investigation received |   Number of Cases in which request for issue of prosecution sanction after investigation received | Number of Prosecution Sanctions issued   |   Number of Prosecution Sanctions issued | Number of Prosecution Sanctions issued   |
|------------------------|------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|                        |            |                   2023 |                   2024 |                   2025 |                                              2023 |                                              2024 |                                              2025 |                                                                                              2023 |                                                                                              2024 |                                                                                              2025 | 2023 2024                                |                                     2025 |                                          |
| 1. Andaman and Nicobar | 0          |                      0 |                      0 |                      0 |                                                 0 |                                                 0 |                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 | 0                                        |                                        0 |                                          |
| 2. Andhra Pradesh      | 445        |                    602 |                    448 |                      5 |                                                11 |                                                19 |                                                 1 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 1 | 0                                        |                                        0 |                                          |
| 3. Arunacha l Pradesh  | 0          |                      0 |                      0 |                      0 |                                                 0 |                                                 0 |                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 | 0                                        |                                        0 |                                          |
| 4. Assam               | 2          |                      0 |                      0 |                      0 |                                                 0 |                                                 0 |                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 | 0                                        |                                        0 |                                          |
| 5. Bihar               | 6          |                      5 |                      1 |                      1 |                                                 1 |                                                 1 |                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 |                                                                                                 0 | 0                                        |                                        0 |                                          |

| 6.                                    | Chandiga rh     |   3 |   9 |   80 |   0 |   0 |   37 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 0 |
|---------------------------------------|-----------------|-----|-----|------|-----|-----|------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-------|
| 7.                                    | Chhattisg arh 0 |   1 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |
| 8. Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu | & 0             |   0 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |
| 9.                                    | Delhi 4         |  92 | 153 |    0 |   0 |  34 |    0 |  11 |   9 |   0 |  11 |     9 |
| 10.                                   | Goa 5           |   1 |  13 |    0 |   1 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |
| 11. Gujarat                           | 2               |   9 |  12 |    1 |   1 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     3 |
| 12. Haryana                           | 4               |   2 |  33 |    0 |   0 |  15 |    0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   1 |     0 |
| 13. Himachal Pradesh                  | 4               |   0 |   2 |    1 |   0 |   1 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |
| 14. Jammu Kashmir                     | & 1             |   0 |   4 |    0 |   0 |   0 |    1 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |     0 |
| 15.                                   | Jharkhan d 0    |   0 |   4 |    0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |

| 16.             |   Karnatak a |   32 |   33 |   61 |   6 |   8 |   0 | 3   | 0   | 0   | 3   | 0   | 0   |
|-----------------|--------------|------|------|------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
| Kerala          |          110 |  277 |  238 |   87 | 197 | 158 |   7 | 1   | 0   | 7   | 1   | 15  | 17. |
| Ladakh          |            0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 | 0   | 0   | 0   | 0   | 0   | 18. |
| Lakshad weep    |            0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 | 0   | 0   | 0   | 0   | 0   | 19. |
| Madhya Pradesh  |            0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 | 0   | 0   | 0   | 0   | 0   | 20. |
| Maharash tra    |            6 |   14 |   22 |    1 |   1 |   1 |   0 | 1 0 | 0   |     | 1   | 0   | 21. |
| Manipur         |            0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 | 0 0 | 0   | 0   |     | 0   | 22. |
| Meghalay a      |            0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 | 0 0 | 0   | 0   | 0   |     | 23. |
| Mizoram         |            2 |    0 |    4 |    1 |   0 |   3 |   0 | 0   | 1 0 | 0   |     | 1   | 24. |
| Nagaland        |            0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 | 0   | 0 0 | 0   |     | 0   | 25. |
| Odisha          |            0 |    5 |    7 |    0 |   2 |   1 |   0 | 0   | 0 0 | 0   |     | 0   | 26. |
| 27. Puducher ry |            0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 | 0   | 0   | 0   | 0   | 0   |     |

| 28.   | Punjab          |   56 |   18 |   80 |   0 |   38 |   69 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 0 |   0 |
|-------|-----------------|------|------|------|-----|------|------|-----|-----|-----|-------|-----|
| 29.   | Rajasthan 35    |   87 |   97 |    0 |   0 |    4 |    2 |   0 |   0 |   2 |     0 |   0 |
| 30.   | Sikkim 0        |    0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |
| 31.   | Tamil Nadu 152  |  106 |   99 |    7 |  64 |   52 |    1 |   0 |   0 |   1 |     0 |   0 |
| 32.   | Telangan a 132  |   96 |  111 |   35 |  17 |   47 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |
| 33.   | Tripura 0       |    0 |    1 |    0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |
| 34.   | Uttarakha nd 0  |    5 |    5 |    0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |
| 35.   | Uttar Pradesh 0 |    6 |   31 |    0 |   0 |   11 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |
| 36.   | West Bengal 5   |   10 |   35 |    2 |   2 |   12 |    0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |
|       | Total 1,006     | 1378 | 1541 |  147 | 343 |  465 |   15 |  14 |  10 |  15 |    14 |  28 |

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