Claudia

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Latest post on 22 March 2018 - 23:57

It sounds like he wants to employ you as a live-in nanny/home help if I'm honest, but putting it on the company visa allowance so he doesn't have to arrange a real maid/nanny visa and go through al...

Hi Haim, thanks so much again for taking the time to reply, I really appreciate it. I read that you can’t employ a British person for Home help and that only certain nationalities can be employed.. Filipino etc. however as a single man there is still no option for live in because of the Sharia law. His plan was for be on a visa via his company as a PA, but this of course doesn’t address the validity of a live in situation. I don’t know about the PRO but thanks for raising that. I don’t know the set up of his company in Dubai unfortunately but there is no HR person as far as I know. He was offering £1k a week, which is within my expectations. Thank you for the link, that’s really helpful. I totally understand and appreciate your comments about the risk, even if he seems to think there isn’t one! Thank you so much : )

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Latest post on 21 March 2018 - 13:04

As you've rightly said, it is illegal for a single man to have a female maid... and from the tone of doubt in your post I think you already know the answer. You'll be employed by his company with a...

Hi Haim, thanks so much for taking the time to to reply, I really appreciate it. So although there is some PA work having spoken to the guy, the main duties are actually looking after his children, taking them to school, feeding them etc. I said that because of the laws I would live near by however he is adamant he wants live in. He is recently separated and apparently the kids wonder in the night, so he wants someone there on call. He also goes out a lot in the evening until late, because of his work in hospitality. I’ve said it’s a risk living in. His response is that ‘it really isn’t, everyone does it and there generally aren’t any problems and that he lived with his last partner for 5 years unmarried and there were no issues’. He also said that the visa has to be sorted when I arrive. I said I can’t work under a tourist visa and I said that my understanding was that part one, the initial employment card can be issued within a week or so from the UK and then part 2 the resident part, can be applied for when I’m there working. His response was, ‘lots of people work on tourist visas whilst there having their visas sorted... He’s an entrepreneur and is clearly happy to take risks. I’m not risk adverse and I don’t want to miss out on the opportunity, however I don’t want to take unnecessary risks. When I’ve raised the issues his response is as if I’m being too cautious and that these practices are just normal in Dubai.. am I being overly cautious and missing out as a consequence? Thanks so much for any comments.

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