This or a similar visa ban on Filipinas (not the male Filipinos) hasn't been applied only to domestic helpers. The vast majority of companies that I deal with are being forced to hire skilled workers (engineers, techs, admin, etc.) on business visas only because the Qatari government is NOT allowing most companies visas for Filipinas. Most slots for ladies are being given to the men because of this, as each company spends more to send their ladies out of Qatar and back just to renew those business visas (tickets + hotel + taxi + visa = money loss).
Each of the Qatari Arabs that run many of the companies say their mandoobs are complaining that they can NOT get lady work visas for their new Filipina employees. It IS a current problem, but the actual reason for the company work visa ban isn't easy to discover. Unless someone in immigration decided the temporary domestic helper ban applied to ALL Filipinas and made it across the board out of ignorance? Someone will cry that I'm wrong, but I've met nearly 50+ ladies who are in that same limbo status. They don't know if their accommodations should be temporary or stable long-term because they were told that if one day their company cannot renew her or get a work visa, she has to go home. So far proven factual.
This or a similar visa ban on Filipinas (not the male Filipinos) hasn't been applied only to domestic helpers. The vast majority of companies that I deal with are being forced to hire skilled workers (engineers, techs, admin, etc.) on business visas only because the Qatari government is NOT allowing most companies visas for Filipinas. Most slots for ladies are being given to the men because of this, as each company spends more to send their ladies out of Qatar and back just to renew those business visas (tickets + hotel + taxi + visa = money loss).
Each of the Qatari Arabs that run many of the companies say their mandoobs are complaining that they can NOT get lady work visas for their new Filipina employees. It IS a current problem, but the actual reason for the company work visa ban isn't easy to discover. Unless someone in immigration decided the temporary domestic helper ban applied to ALL Filipinas and made it across the board out of ignorance? Someone will cry that I'm wrong, but I've met nearly 50+ ladies who are in that same limbo status. They don't know if their accommodations should be temporary or stable long-term because they were told that if one day their company cannot renew her or get a work visa, she has to go home. So far proven factual.