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HELP!! Maid Visa Question - URGENT

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 22 June 2011 - 18:19

Please can you help me.

My husband has recently moved jobs and therefore we have all had to get new visas, the problem is we have hired a new maid who is on a tourist visa her visa expires on 2nd July.

My visa should be ready on Sunday so we can start the paper work for our maid. However, my husbands pro has said that we can not start processing our maids visa while she is still in the country. She has to leave then we start the employment process get the pink piece of paper then fax that to her and leave it at the airport for her to collect.

I however, have been told that we can start processing and we give her the pink paper - she fly's out then when she fly's back presents the pink paper?????

HELP - who is correct, can we get the pink paper when she is still in UAE or can we only do this when she is out of the country??

All help greatly appreciated.

J x

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 28 June 2011 - 17:00
We just finished doing this last Thursday (23 June). Our maid was here on a tourist visa (as my husband changed employers) and we did the medical, got the daman (takes a week) and in just two hours my husband and maid together got her residency visa. These rules do change all the time but I think less than a week seems a pretty quick shift. We always depend on the advice of a PRO. If your PRO is advising you this is the case then all you can do is verify with your maid's embassy (our maid is Filipina). If you have to do send her home then you have to... GOOD LUCK, this is the difficult mile.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 23 June 2011 - 09:02
Unfortunately I cannot tell for sure but I'm almost certain that the times of maids (at least from the Phillipnnes) being able to switch their tourist visas into work ones is over. We had to fly ours back home, sort all the paperwork (via an agency, apparently no other way!!) and then fly her back. Good luck