there seams to be a lot of confusion in regards to the sponsorship issue !?
First to get the Sponsorship System explained:
A sponser (Qatarie Citizen) takes responsibility for his "proteges".
If one decides to get a bank loan and sail in to the sunset, he will have to clean up
after the sailor... In order to prevent these, he the one will have to approve for
most of the things that have caught headache in the past.
In order to keep the control, one is not free to come and go. The coming is depending largely
on your country of origin. There are 33 privileged countries and the all the other ones have more
difficulties of getting in. But once here "we" are more or less treated the same way in term of
the system, not the practice !
A sponsor is free to issue or grant a so called multiple exit visa, under which you are free to come and
go as you want ( for a fee of approx. 400QR/year). I am not sure if there is a rule on who is accepted
in term of job level. Engineering and Management titles facilitate many things, even when just on the paper.
Depending on what country your from (the 33 or not) you can come on a visitors visa, project visa or residence/work visa. Where visitor visas have their time limits.
Once you have your sponsorship and work visa you are more or less at mercy of the sponsor.
I never heard of any limitation on when one can transfer from a sponsor.
In case one wants or needs to transfer, then the individual needs to get a NOC, none objection letter in
laymen terms. That simply states that the sponsor does not object of the transfer.
IF NOT issued such a NOC, then the individual is blocked from applying for another work visa for 2 years
after cancelation of the visa. The same applies if ones visa expires and is not properly renewed or canceled.
Certain employers/sponsors with a lot of power can even apply a blacklisting of the individual,
meaning the blacklisted person can not even return as a tourist (provided the person is from the 33 countries).
Under certain circumstances, like when a employee has not been paid his salary for 3-4 month,
the labour commission can issue a "forced" change of sponsorship if the employer can not provide
prove of payment (but again it depends on where ya from, other ways they are usually faster in deporting one).
Thats the mechanisms behind it in a nut shell...
Depending on who the sponsor is, every step is blurred... and can take forever.
But if all goes ok, a change can be done in one day. 3 pieces of paper, a signature, company stamp and
halas !
There is thousands of people changing sponsors and jobs, but you only hear about the sad and bad ones.
At the end of the day, it depends very much on the PRO (public relations officer) or fixer as we call them,
who handles the papers and fees (and in-official fees) on how things go.
BTW, I am currently going through the same routine and I don't know the out-come yet !
Hi guys,
there seams to be a lot of confusion in regards to the sponsorship issue !?
First to get the Sponsorship System explained:
A sponser (Qatarie Citizen) takes responsibility for his "proteges".
If one decides to get a bank loan and sail in to the sunset, he will have to clean up
after the sailor... In order to prevent these, he the one will have to approve for
most of the things that have caught headache in the past.
-Gas
-Water
-Electricity
-Cars
-Bank Accounts
-Loans
-Credit Cards
-Alcohol
-Travels
-etc.
In order to keep the control, one is not free to come and go. The coming is depending largely
on your country of origin. There are 33 privileged countries and the all the other ones have more
difficulties of getting in. But once here "we" are more or less treated the same way in term of
the system, not the practice !
A sponsor is free to issue or grant a so called multiple exit visa, under which you are free to come and
go as you want ( for a fee of approx. 400QR/year). I am not sure if there is a rule on who is accepted
in term of job level. Engineering and Management titles facilitate many things, even when just on the paper.
Depending on what country your from (the 33 or not) you can come on a visitors visa, project visa or residence/work visa. Where visitor visas have their time limits.
Once you have your sponsorship and work visa you are more or less at mercy of the sponsor.
I never heard of any limitation on when one can transfer from a sponsor.
In case one wants or needs to transfer, then the individual needs to get a NOC, none objection letter in
laymen terms. That simply states that the sponsor does not object of the transfer.
IF NOT issued such a NOC, then the individual is blocked from applying for another work visa for 2 years
after cancelation of the visa. The same applies if ones visa expires and is not properly renewed or canceled.
Certain employers/sponsors with a lot of power can even apply a blacklisting of the individual,
meaning the blacklisted person can not even return as a tourist (provided the person is from the 33 countries).
Under certain circumstances, like when a employee has not been paid his salary for 3-4 month,
the labour commission can issue a "forced" change of sponsorship if the employer can not provide
prove of payment (but again it depends on where ya from, other ways they are usually faster in deporting one).
Thats the mechanisms behind it in a nut shell...
Depending on who the sponsor is, every step is blurred... and can take forever.
But if all goes ok, a change can be done in one day. 3 pieces of paper, a signature, company stamp and
halas !
There is thousands of people changing sponsors and jobs, but you only hear about the sad and bad ones.
At the end of the day, it depends very much on the PRO (public relations officer) or fixer as we call them,
who handles the papers and fees (and in-official fees) on how things go.
BTW, I am currently going through the same routine and I don't know the out-come yet !
Plankton