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What Lies Ahead for Visit Visa Holder in Dubai?

  Maria Theresa S. Samante,  Jun 3, 2006

More and more Filipinos opt to work abroad particularly in Dubai using visit visa. Recently, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) issued an advisory about the risk of working using visit visa. Aspiring OFWs believe that using visit visa is the easiest and fastest way to work abroad. But what they don’t know is the risk that goes along with when they get there. 

 

What really lies ahead for “tourist workers” holder in Dubai? What will happen when your visa was about to expire? Meanwhile, here’s a real story from a Filipina who wants to tell the burden of using visit visa.

 

Pag pumasok ka dito as visit visa, you will be allowed to stay in Dubai for only 58 days from your date of entry. So within 58 days dapat may trabaho ka, maari makakuha ka ng work within that period of time pero ang question will they process your employment and residence visa? This is the biggest problem here.

 

Ang processing ng employment visa will cost roughly Dhs8,000. Malaking pera para sa company, unless malaking company ang mapasukan mo for sure they will process your visa, eh paano kung hindi? Totoo na maraming mga company dito pero di lahat malaki at may pera. Kung mga small time business walang mangyayari sa visa mo, paaasahin ka lang, kunwari they will hire you tapos pag malapit na ma-expire na ang visit visa mo dun mo malalaman na di pala nila ito pina-process at kailangan mo um-exit papunta sa Kish. Tapos pagbalik mo sarado na pala yung company mo o di kaya may na-hire nang iba.

 

Ilan ng kasama ko sa bahay at kakilala ang ganon ang nangyari. Buti kung sasagutin ng company yung exit expenses mo eh kung hindi, which always happens. Kawawa ang magpupunta dito na visit visa ang gamit.

 

Naranasan ko ang um-exit papunta sa Kish, hidi agad na-process ng company ko ang employment visa ko. Pag nakarating ka sa Kish you will feel na para kang na-exile. Kish is an island in Iran, and you will be shocked dahil madaming Pinoy ang nandon, imagine lagi fully booked ang Kish airlines dahil sa dami ng Pinoy na pabalik-balik from Kish to Dubai and from Dubai to Kish.

 

Ang bayad don nun time na um-exit ako ay Dh35 per day, it’s a hotel they say pero hindi ito gaya ng mga hotel na iniisip mo. Wala kang trabaho na mapapasukan sa Kish, so talagang hindi ka mag-iisip na mag-stay sa lugar na iyon. Yung place na iyon ay ginawa para sa pag-exit ng mga paso na ang visa sa Dubai.


Depressing ang lugar na yon, may mga Pinoy don na na-stranded na. Pinabayaan na sila ng employer at ng kamag-anak o di kaya kakilala nila. Syempre kung wala ka rin lang pamilya dito sa
Dubai sino ang gagastos sayo ng Dhs 1,000 for a new visit visa only.

 

May mga Pinoy akong na-meet don, wala na silang pera. Merong isa one month na siya don, tapos ang ginagawa niya para makakain siya naglilinis siya ng hotel. Tapos, meron din don wala na silang pagkain. Ang ginagawa nila hinihingi nila yung natitirang pagkain ng mga aalis ng mga Pinoy at babalik na sa Dubai. Ang advise nga sa’min, pag pupunta ka sa Kish at may pera ka naman, magdala ka na ng maraming pagkain at iwan mo na lng sa mga naandon na na-stranded na Pinoy.

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