A demand letter is not a purchase order. It is the employer's written commitment to a set of terms — job titles, quantities, wages, working hours, accommodation, contract length and the authority of whoever signs it. If any of those are missing, the file cannot be verified, and a licensed promoter should not start sourcing against it.
We ask for the letter on company letterhead, signed by an authorised officer, with a commercial registration or equivalent and — where the law of the destination requires it — a power of attorney attested by the employer's chamber of commerce and the embassy of Pakistan in that country.
Attestation is not paperwork for its own sake. It is what allows the emigration process to move: the Bureau of Emigration checks the employer, the embassy endorses the visa delegation, and the Protector of Emigrants registers the worker. A missing stamp at this stage becomes a stranded worker three weeks later.
Employers sometimes ask us to begin sourcing while the attestation is still in progress. We do not, and the reason is simple: candidates take leave from work, pay for medical tests and prepare documents on the strength of a demand. If the authority behind that demand later falls through, the loss is theirs, not ours.
Once the letter is verified, the timeline becomes predictable. We confirm the trades and skill levels, agree a mobilisation window with the employer's site team, and only then begin trade testing. Everything downstream — medical, visa, ticketing — has a date to work towards.
Written by the recruitment desk at Shahenshah Overseas, Rawalpindi. Licence 3026 / RWP, Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment.