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Latest post on 09 February 2011 - 12:27

A friend has found a really good maid from one of the part-time agencies and wants to hire her as a full-time live-in. This maid will have completed a full contract with the agency at the end of May, and she wants to move to work with my friend without going home and coming back. Can this be done and if so, how? How much notice will she have to give and how does my friend go about approaching the agency?

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Latest post on 12 February 2011 - 20:16

That's great info, tibertlm. Thanks!

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Latest post on 12 February 2011 - 11:29

Get the agency to provide a No Objection form from DNRD (permission to transfer sponsorship). Then visit a typing center to have them prepare the Medical Application and the Sponsorship transfer Application. Bring about 6000 dhs. Take maid for medical testing. After the Medical results are in, go back to DNRD with all the forms, original and copies of old/new sponsor passport and maid's passport and Visa. Pay 2000 deposit, sponsor and maid sign contract and you're done! Takes maybe a week. Go to DNRD at one of the free zones -- way faster. Also, Al Ba'ada Medical Centre is less crowded and 90% women there -- just be at the door at 7:30 a.m. as they take just 35 appts. per day.

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Latest post on 11 February 2011 - 23:21

Thanks ladies. I'll pass on your responses to my friend.

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Latest post on 10 February 2011 - 22:37

A maid I personally know has a contract finishing soon and she is leaving the agency. They are not going to send her back, nor ban her but wish her well as they were well paid from her salary while she worked for them and more than paid back the money to bring her here 3 years ago. She is moving on to be sponsored by a family. No one is poaching as she has finished her contract. the agency is not nasty. There is nothing in her contract that holds her ransom at the end of the contract. They give her the airfare or send her home. They have no reason to ban her or any maid who finishes a contract with them.

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Latest post on 10 February 2011 - 15:23

But then she would have a ban. So instead of informing her agency, she should just ask to be released and she should return home. Her new employer should then go through an agency to bring her back because it would be impossible to come back without all that POLO red tape.

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Latest post on 10 February 2011 - 14:04

But then she would have a ban.

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Latest post on 09 February 2011 - 21:17

Thanks, TanyaR. If they deported her I guess my friend would just have to bring her back on a new visa instead of transferring.

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Latest post on 09 February 2011 - 20:09

I have heard of this happening, but I can't remember where and it isn't someone I know that has done this, just vaguely sitting in the archives of my dusty brain! I just recall that they had to pay the agency a fee for them to release the maid. At the end of the day, it is going to depend on the agency she comes from as to how they will deal with the situation. If I were your friend, I would anonymously call the agency and put a hypothetical situation to them and see what they say (make sure she doesn't use the phone that is attached to their file). I also wouldn't specify when the visa is expiring, although they will have a group of maids expiring at the same time so it wouldnt be 'too' risky if they suss out the finishing date -given you don't want to jeapodise the maids current situation. If they are agreeable, and she is happy with the fee, she would just have to follow the usual visa process procedure to get her onboard and under their sponsorship. That is what I 'think' anyway... HTH

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Latest post on 09 February 2011 - 19:50

No nothing helpful. the owner of the agency will just deport her.

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Latest post on 09 February 2011 - 19:37

Same as headhunting if you're a marketing manager, then. Do you have anything helpful to add?

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Latest post on 09 February 2011 - 19:16

because the company brought her over here and trained her, and then through her job she found a better one...and the new sponsor does not have to invest anything. Nice. If she finishes her contract she can go home then.

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Latest post on 09 February 2011 - 19:05

Be as blunt as you like but why is it poaching if the maid is working for a company and has completed a contract? :\: Anyone have any experience of this? My friend really likes this girl and would be happy to have her live with them. All the maids she's met through the agencies who place FT maids haven't been a good fit with her family. ETA: It'd be headhunting if she were a marketing manager and not a maid ;). <em>edited by DubaiCat on 09/02/2011</em>

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Latest post on 09 February 2011 - 17:01

Feels nice to be the poachee :d I was poached once!

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Latest post on 09 February 2011 - 16:45

sounds like poaching to me, sorry for being blunt.

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