The story of an EMIGRANT..| By Nada Al-Hout
Why doesn’t the Lebanese expatriate return to his homeland to contribute to moving the economic wheel instead of helping the IMF conditionally Lebanon?
The expatriate, Lebanese-American businessman Samir Zouhair Olabi who emigrated at the age of twenty and his family to America, said that there are several reasons “that have lost the desire of the expatriate to invest in Lebanon He added: “I have had an experience like any expatriate who seeks to help Lebanese youth to secure job opportunities… But faced several obstacles, most notably first: just establishing a company may take a few months in Lebanon, unlike any country abroad, which may take several weeks, second: After obtaining the establishment of the company, there is difficulty in opening a bank account.
And complications, especially after the collapse of the Lebanese banking sector, and here Olabi poses the suffering of immigrants in transferring the earnings of life to Lebanese banks after providing temptations to provide high interests and their suffering in pursuing their rights through the judiciary and the Lebanese state, so how can an expatriate accustomed to an accurate and fast system in establishing a company abroad to return to his homeland …
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