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Latest post on 12 June 2011 - 17:41

Hi there
We are in the process of sponsoring an indian housemaid and I have a query re process at Indian Embassy - have contacted them but didn't really get clarity on the process. I understand I have to apply for her visa through Dubai immigration and then take her contract and various other docs (inc deposit) to Indian Embassy - is that so they will release her from India to come here? Has anyone done this and any ideas of how long the indian embassy process takes?
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Latest post on 01 December 2013 - 05:58

Can anyone reply to my last post please? Desperate for hhelp

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Latest post on 26 November 2013 - 17:20

There is an indian maid that i would like to hire. She is currently in abu dhabi and her job is about to end. Is there a way i can transfer her sponsorship and avoid the 9200 security deposit made compulsory by the indian embassy?

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Latest post on 29 September 2013 - 10:13

Sorry to hijack this thread but I am desperate! I am looking for an Indian maid but cannot find one anywhere!!! Can you tell me where I should be looking? Or if you know of an Indian maid looking for a job? TIA

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Latest post on 23 September 2013 - 17:48

Hi Nayaab, Wish to know how did you get along the conversion of the visa through the visit visa route. Will be a great help if you can shed light on this matter. Thanks

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Latest post on 23 September 2013 - 17:47

Hey natasha, thanks for the reply! She has family here, so we have tried the visit visa route... just hope we can convert that to our sponsorship when she arrives. It works for other nationalities so hoping this works too! Hi Nayaab We did manage to avoid the embassy charges but I can't remember exactly how! I think my maid checked in India what she would need and if I remember correctly we just needed to make sure we sent her contract with her salary stated and that was enough for them to allow her to leave India. HTH

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Latest post on 09 February 2013 - 15:53

Hey natasha, thanks for the reply! She has family here, so we have tried the visit visa route... just hope we can convert that to our sponsorship when she arrives. It works for other nationalities so hoping this works too! Hi Nayaab We did manage to avoid the embassy charges but I can't remember exactly how! I think my maid checked in India what she would need and if I remember correctly we just needed to make sure we sent her contract with her salary stated and that was enough for them to allow her to leave India. HTH

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Latest post on 30 January 2013 - 17:32

Hi Nayaab We did manage to avoid the embassy charges but I can't remember exactly how! I think my maid checked in India what she would need and if I remember correctly we just needed to make sure we sent her contract with her salary stated and that was enough for them to allow her to leave India. HTH

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Latest post on 26 January 2013 - 17:40

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but just wanted to know from natashab, if you are still on here, did you manage to work around the embassy? Trying to get ourselves an indian maid, but the deposit amount is ridiculous :-/ The only thing is she was previously working here as a housemaid so she has a canceled housemaid visa in her passport. Now I wish we has transfered her visa but we got her previous employer to cancel them she went home for her annual holiday and we are applying for the new visa. Should have done more research earlier!

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Latest post on 15 June 2011 - 09:14

Hmm... If you like you might want to chance it....she could make up a story about why she just has to visit - say previous employer's wanted her to handover to the new one and she agreed to go over for a week, hence the visit visa etc...

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Latest post on 13 June 2011 - 11:08

The only thing is she was previously working here as a housemaid so she has a canceled housemaid visa in her passport. Now I wish we has transfered her visa but we got her previous employer to cancel them she went home for her annual holiday and we are applying for the new visa. Should have done more research earlier!

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Latest post on 13 June 2011 - 10:53

Get her to Dubai on a visit visa and then apply for maid visa. Its the workaround, everybody I know has done. The Indian embassy thing is not a UAE requirement. You have to make sure she is able to convince the immigration in India that she's got family here who she's going to visit only. If they suspect she's going for a maids job they may not let her through. I know this is not the complete honest way, but the Indian embassy requirement is absolutely tedious and unfair. Gettng an Indian maid's paper work done the first time can easily have us short of AED20,000, given all deposits we have to make. So I would use the other route too.

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Latest post on 13 June 2011 - 10:41

Hi homegal. Would definitely rather avoid the whole Indian embassy thing but am concerned they won't let her out of india without some doc from embassy here. Will see if I can find out more. Thanks for your input.

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Latest post on 13 June 2011 - 10:29

natashab, from what I've heard, the embassy is also promoting slavery IMHO. They now expect the maids to send all their salary to India. Nothing here. If they spend it here, they want receipts etc. I basically told the embassy that it was not my business what my employee did with their pay and how would they like it if their employer put such restrictions on them. Apparrently, to protect employers, the new rule is the maid must not ask for a day off, etc. Just so you know it is not just the initial processes. Once the maid arrives you have to take her to the embassy where they inform her about all these things. When you want to cancel her visa, you have to take her back to the embassy, with evidence of her salary being paid and I believe now evidence of money being transferred to India. You have to go back to embassy when she has left the country to apply for return of the deposit and then it takes up to 3 weeks for it to be returned.

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Latest post on 13 June 2011 - 08:00

Anyone else? Would like to know if anyone didn't do the Indian Embassy process and had issues getting their maid here. TIA

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Latest post on 12 June 2011 - 21:29

Yes I had to fax the stamped indian embassy document to India (another huge mission). However, noone looked at it at the airport. Maybe that was just luck though. If we did it again then we would definately not go the embassy route but would chance it.

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Latest post on 12 June 2011 - 21:17

Thanks Scaralex - would rather avoid doing the Indian Embassy thing if it isn't necessary or breaking any laws - and have already checked with Dubai immigration and it isn't necessary for their process. Can you remember exactly what the indian embassy gave you - did you have to send the embassy document to your maid so that she could leave india without any issues? Just don't want her to be stuck at the airport in India unable to leave the country without a required doc! Don't think there will be an issue at this end.

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Latest post on 12 June 2011 - 18:46

One of my friends didn't do the paperwork and her maid came in no problem. We thought we would be law abiding and did the whole Indian embassy thing and it was a pain in the XXXX. We had to pay a deposit of Dh9,200 to the Indian Embassy as well as supply a whole load of paperwork. They keep the deposit while the maid is still in your employment. After our maid arrived, I had to take her back to the embassy so she could show them I had bought her a phone and phone card! As my visa is in Abu Dhabi, all this had to be done down there at the embassy. I found our maid stealing from us just before Eid last year and was unable to put her on the next plane as I had to take her into the Indian embassy after the holiday to sign a declaration to say that she had received all her dues before they would agree to give me my deposit back. I received the refund cheque 4 weeks later. If you are going to go this route, make sure you get a signature every time you pay salary.

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Latest post on 12 June 2011 - 18:27

Thanks homegal. I know that Dubai authorities don't require this but was under the impression that I had to do the Indian consulate bit so that they would release her from India but it probably isn't that well organised!

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Latest post on 12 June 2011 - 18:19

Honestly, the indian embassy procedure is tedious. I've been through it. However, we did realise after, that the entire process is based on the employee requiring the ECNR stamp. When our maid came into Dubai, the people did not even know what the papers were. Some friends have not bothered with the process. It isn't really a law or a federal requirement but a local requirement of the embassy here, from what we can tell, but this is our opinion and we may be wrong. Not sure how well they (the Indian Consulate in Dubai) have coordinated with the authorities in India. Anyway, the process you've mentioned sounds correct. First make the visa, take the visa and required documents to embassy with deposit and guarator to submit application. We collected the next afternoon. She can fly in after that. They don't do anything with the visa, but for this process, you need to get the visa attested if I remember correctly.

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