"Send stranded expat workers home, says Oman's Ministry of Manpower official", 25 Sep 2016.

Companies with no ongoing work or funds to pay salaries should send their expat workers home, a senior official from the Ministry of Manpower said...Due to the oil price crisis, firms are getting fewer contracts and projects and hundreds of workers are left in the lurch without salary – sometimes for months at a time. "Our visas have also expired, but the company is not sending us back [...] we are effectively living in Oman illegally,” one of the workers said...an overstaying expat will have to pay OMR30 at the immigration counter at the airport and OMR18 at the Ministry of Manpower...for every month they remain in Oman.