The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Government of Tajikistan and diasporas jointly facilitated the return home of about 150 Tajik migrants who had been stranded at the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border, according to IOM mission for Central Asia.

The new group of Tajik migrants arrived home on November 1. The movement was coordinated by the Government of Tajikistan with the cooperation of the Governments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and facilitated by the IOM missions in the three countries. 

Since introduction of quarantine measures, the International Organization for Migration – United Nations Migration Agency has supported return home of about 2,650 Tajik nationals from Kazakhstan through Uzbekistan to Tajikistan, among them women, children, migrant workers, and students. They all were stranded at the Zhibek Zholi border point at the Kazakhstan border with Uzbekistan in the hope of continuing their journey home to Tajikistan.