Banff refugee said: "She's the employee, but the NGO was pretty unhelpful with the visa -- she has a business visa for herself, and they said she could get a visa for me after, but that seems to be after the RP (2 months?)"
Banff, so far as I'm aware, that isn't related to you (husband) being sponsored by wife. The same would apply to a husband sponsoring his wife.
I'm not yet in Qatar -- *still* waiting for my work visa -- but I've been reading these fora for around a couple of months now and it seems that the 'trailing spouse' as the spouse of an expat worker is generally known, really trails in the case of Qatar. Some countries may be different, I don't know, but Qatar -- from my reading of questions like this over the past couple of months -- always seems to offer the work visa to the employee first, and then two-three months later when the employee has secured a residents permit, *then* the trailing spouse can get sponsored.
It is possible for the trailing spouse to come over on a visitor's/tourist visa and hop across to Dubai on a visa renewal trip every so often, but if the trailing spouse wants to be sponsored, then they must wait until their husband/wife has had their resident's permit processed.
In the case of Qatar, processing the resident's permit application can take a couple of months, so it's not possible for a husband(employee)/wife(trailing spouse) or a wife (employee)/husband (trailing spouse) to enter Qatar at the same time on long term resident's status; the trailing spouse, whether it's a husband or wife will *always* have to wait until their employed/sponsored spouse has secured their resident's permit before finalising their own status.
Banff refugee said: "She's the employee, but the NGO was pretty unhelpful with the visa -- she has a business visa for herself, and they said she could get a visa for me after, but that seems to be after the RP (2 months?)"
Banff, so far as I'm aware, that isn't related to you (husband) being sponsored by wife. The same would apply to a husband sponsoring his wife.
I'm not yet in Qatar -- *still* waiting for my work visa -- but I've been reading these fora for around a couple of months now and it seems that the 'trailing spouse' as the spouse of an expat worker is generally known, really trails in the case of Qatar. Some countries may be different, I don't know, but Qatar -- from my reading of questions like this over the past couple of months -- always seems to offer the work visa to the employee first, and then two-three months later when the employee has secured a residents permit, *then* the trailing spouse can get sponsored.
It is possible for the trailing spouse to come over on a visitor's/tourist visa and hop across to Dubai on a visa renewal trip every so often, but if the trailing spouse wants to be sponsored, then they must wait until their husband/wife has had their resident's permit processed.
In the case of Qatar, processing the resident's permit application can take a couple of months, so it's not possible for a husband(employee)/wife(trailing spouse) or a wife (employee)/husband (trailing spouse) to enter Qatar at the same time on long term resident's status; the trailing spouse, whether it's a husband or wife will *always* have to wait until their employed/sponsored spouse has secured their resident's permit before finalising their own status.