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Maid Agency for sponsorship! Urgent please help

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EW OLDHAND
Latest post on 13 January 2011 - 19:38
No idea on agencies. For the nationality, is the PRO at your or your husband's work any help? Otherwise maybe check directly with the Labor Department, as I think they are the ones who approve the nationality.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 13 January 2011 - 16:46
RachelA thank you for all that info. I will probably have to start with an agency and see how I go. Any pointers on which ones are good? How do I find out if it's at all possible to bring over of former nanny. She's currenly in Greece where we left her but she's from Georgia (Eastern Europe)?
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 13 January 2011 - 13:20
Hi, I am also in the process of hiring live in help and was wondering does anyone know what the current fees you pay to sponsor etc are? thanks in advance
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EW OLDHAND
Latest post on 13 January 2011 - 11:32
Well essentially you have 3 options for live-out help. Two are legal, one is not. 1) Sponsor a maid/nanny, but provide her with outside accomodation. I knew one person who had done this before - her maid shared accom with a few others, and my friend paid her QR 2000 on top of her full time wages. This is legal, but is quite expensive. 2)Part-time help via an agency. which is also legal. Most agencies as far as I know have a 4 hours minimum, which doesn't sound like a problem for you. I believe the going rate is QR 25-30 and hour, so based on QR 25 at 6 hours/day 5 days/week which comes to double what most people pay for full-time live in. Of course for full time live-in you are also paying for flights, sponsorship fees, etc. so the difference is a bit less dramatic. But still more expensive as far as I can tell. 3)Part-time help from someone individually, who has sponsorship from someone else. Definitely done. Definitely illegal. And I think about the same rates as you would pay an agency. If I'm wrong about any of the above please feel free to correct me anyone. I posted on another thread that it might be worth giving full-time live-in more thought - but of course that's just 1 person's opnion. Good luck!
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 13 January 2011 - 11:05
I've posted this question elsewhere, but since you're on the subject of maids, I was wondering if it's possible to find someone here who we can hire NOT as a live-in? 5 days a week from about 12noon - 6pm to do a little housecleaning but mainly look after our 4 year old when he returns from school. How realistic is this? staying alive: are the agencies you mention the best way to go about finding home help? We had a great woman when we were living in Greece but she is from Georgia (Eastern Europe) and I'm not sure if it's at all possible to bring her over. I've heard some countries are almost impossible... True?
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 14:37
Thx staying alive! No worries about hijacking ladies we r all here to help each other :0)
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 11 January 2011 - 13:16
thanks guys, and my maid tells me she has a cousin living in doha so thats great news too, she will at least know someone. i think she is more excited about moving than i am!
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 22:27
Phokoje, we brought our Filipina helper over from Dubai and that was no problem at all... I think the only thing is both you and your husband will need to have completed your residency permits in order to apply for hers. They will not allow a man to apply for a maid's residency without first ensuring that he is married/has a family. Otherwise, think it's pretty straight forward..your office PR Officer should be able to sort you out with the technical bits...
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 11:43
Al Diar Manpower & Maid Consultancy Co 487 0033 Al Fursan Cleaning Services 487 8914 Ali Mansoori General Cleaning services 580 9131 / 660 6234 Capital Cleaning Co 556 5328 / 318 9899 Speak Corner Cleaning Co 549 5033 Copied from " The Word in Qatar " My personal experience was with a crappy agency which i didnt include :)
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 11:27
oh cool, that sounds straightforward enough (and pretty similar to dubai). she is sri lankan, so hopefully thats ok too. yay :) and apologies to saraomar for the hijack! <em>edited by Phokoje on 10/01/2011</em>
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EW GURU
Latest post on 10 January 2011 - 09:28
I don't know Dubai. Basically, you (or your husband if he's your sponsor) have to apply for permission to sponsor a maid. You can apply for two nationalities. You then need to get a visa for that specific maid. It's not a complicated process - although technically both husband and wife have to be working full time. Plenty of people get around that one! Whether it'll be difficult to bring your maid over depends on her nationality. As I understand it, it's almost impossible to get permission/a visa (I don't know which is the difficult bit!) for an Eithiopian since the country cut diplomatic ties with Qatar about 3 years ago. A Filipino (for example) shouldn't be an issue.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 21:41
hi ladies, can anyone tell me if the maid system is the same as Dubai? as in the legal way is to sponsor a maid yourself or use and agency maid? and if so, can anyone tell me if its very difficult to get a visa? we want to bring our maid with us to qatar from dubai. thanks in advance :)
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 21:27
Although I know you both want personal recommendation (which makes sense) but if you are really desperate, check the Qatar Profile - I came across a lot of info there. Good luck!
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 20:53
BUMP! I'm also looking along with several friends...so come on ladies, if you have a good agency that provides full time live-in help...please share! Thanks.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 09 January 2011 - 10:34
Hi I have a 7 yr old with a broken foot at home and no one to help!!! Can you please recommend a good maid agency thru whom I can sponsor a maid and get her here asap! Thanks