Kathmandu, June 10 -- Nepali workers throng the embassy in Abu Dhabi demanding flights home.

A fter outrage on social media about the government not following its own guidelines about repatriating Nepali migrants from abroad, stranded and desperate workers are finally beginning to come home this week.

The first repatriation flights on 5 June brought back 168 Nepali security guards working for two companies in UAE from Sharjah. Earlier the same day, 26 Nepalis stuck in Burma were flown home. On Tuesday night, 11 Nepalis were flown back on a Nepal Airlines direct flight from Canberra which had dropped Australians and New Zealanders stuck in Nepal.

None of them were undocumented workers given amnesty, pregnant or disabled, or those relyin...