Private Recruitment Agency (PRA) owes their Foreign Recruitment Agency (FRA) or direct employer or what their employer spent for them for the 2-year contract18 A Rapid Assessment study by IOM Bangladesh published for the period of July and then AugustSeptember 2020, recorded similar issues among Bangladeshi returnees. Some notable findings below:      71 percent of international returnees reported experiencing challenges, increasing from Round 1 of the study – revealing increasing instances of difficult living conditions. 21 respondents mentioned not receiving their last wages as of September 2020. Nearly half of these respondents said that they do not anticipate receiving these wages in the near future. 42 per cent of respondents responded that they would be paid once they returned to work for the same employer who owed them said wage. Financial problems and debt repayment became increasingly reported as a primary challenge facing respondents. It also appears as a problem among all categories of workers. Coping mechanisms for financial problems and debt repayment were similar to one another and most frequently revolved around borrowing money, reducing expenditures, and depending on donations. The most common primary coping mechanism was to apply for government assistance (60%). Applying for NGO/UN assistance was cited most frequently as a secondary coping mechanism (44%), while taking a job that was not the respondent’s normal income source was the most common tertiary coping mechanism (40%). Returnees were shown to depend upon further borrowing of money and rely upon their savings to cope with financial issues. In both Round 1 and Round 2, over 50 per cent of international returnee respondents had debt amounts over 100,000 BDT. Among international returnee respondents, seventy-seven per cent of respondents wanted to remigrate internationally in Round 1, and 78 per cent wanted to in Round 2. The study focused upon socio-economic impacts of the pandemic upon returnee migrant – however the above findings could be extrapolated to consider wage theft among the root causes of such financial distress as well as consequent actions and aspirations. Challenges faced by migrant worker such as not receiving wages, the ensuing financial distress and the consequent need to re-migrate particularly point toward the non-fulfilment of their initial migration goals. 18 The Philippines member 10