Family visa now linked with salary -- Your feedback please

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sweetchoice Contributor

Member since 24 January 2010

sweetchoiceContributor05 February 2010 22:36:13

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The Foreign Ministry will issue permanent resident visas for wives and children of expatriate workers in the Kingdom, without considering their profession.

The Foreign Ministry and the Recruitment Office only issued permanent resident and visit visas to those in white-collar jobs such as engineers, doctors and executives.

There are thousands of expatriate workers who are highly qualified and earn good salaries but cannot bring their families because of their profession.

Is it a healthy move? will it make social life easy?

Is it beneficial for all professional and non-professional employees?

Salman Omrani VIP Member

Member since 15 July 2009

Now now, don't go saying stuff like that. . . ..

Salman OmraniVIP Member06 February 2010 18:38:30

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I've heard of this new rule as well, but no official resource seen yet. do you have any link to the source?

sweetchoice Contributor

Member since 24 January 2010

sweetchoiceContributor07 February 2010 04:32:58

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The news came in paper

please look at ARAB NEWS paper -- december 2009 edition -- it is 25 or 26th december i belive.

meetnauman ViP

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meetnaumanViP10 February 2010 08:13:22

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its not working...

they are not processing any request as yet...

mfaisalpk Contributor

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mfaisalpkContributor05 April 2010 06:18:59

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It was just a piece of NEWS only up to now

http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=1&sec … =12&y=2009

have a look.

http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article32132.ece

musicman ViP

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musicmanViP05 April 2010 09:14:09

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Over here, the newspapers choose to publish one thing, the gossip lines convey another, and no one really knows what the rules of the game are until we really see it happening on the ground.

The case of the fingerprinting saga is a good one as an example.

Family visas should have been allowed for any expat making sufficient money to support them right from the beginning in the mid 70s. This would have saved billions of Riyals in foreign exchange throughout the past 40 years.

The fear was the impact the expat families, especiually the ones from the 3rd world will have on the local populace. Dubai is a good case in point where the localsall speak Hind and Urdu now instead of Arabic.

Whats in culture and language anyway? It does not put food on the table...

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