Family visas / iqama
Could someone please advise - or else I'll be spending over 2000 QR just to cancel the tourist visas ! The company I work for doesn't sort out the visas for dependents (crap I know)
The current situation ....
1) I Have my RP in my passport.
2) My family are on an extended tourist visa until the end of the month ( wife and three kids- UK nationals)
3) The labour office has approved the request for my families residency - I have a letter from them with a reference id for each of my family.
4) Manduub is telling me to take this letter to immigration head office - who will then give me a blue letter ( 1 for each passport). ONLY once I have this letter should I pull out the passports and cancel the tourist visas ( paying 500 QR per passport)
4) Blood certs. / medical / finger printing still to be done after this date so more cost involved when finally applying for the iqama for the family.
Tell me if I'm being a bit optimistic - but to charge 500 QR for cancelling each tourist visa is crazy. Someone else has told me that the tourist visa is suppose to get transfered to the iQama (RP) ? Please please help. Does anyone know if I can save the 2000 QR ?
Dear friend, You dont have to cancell tourist visas. They will transfer automatically. Just you have to do, 1st medical, then you have to check in thier website, the statuts. And when the satus will finish, they will automatically issue the form for you in the same page. You have to fill the same form (be sure after medical and before filling the same form, you have to do blood chck only for your wife. No need for childerens, because there is no finger printing for childerens. Even in the medical, just your wife have to go though the medical check-up and for your childeren, just you have to pay the fees which is Qr. 100 for each person, either for your wife or for your childeren), and then print the same and with it go to any typist and ask for the filling the form for residense visa. Just give to him, passports and the same printed paper. And after filling the same, take the form, your form and paaport, go to the finger printing with your wife only. No need childeren there.Without pay, they will do the fingerprint for you wife.And then go to the emmigration with fingerprint repor of your wife and medical reports of your wife and childerens and at the last all of their passport. Their you have to pay approximately Qr. 250/- for each person(approximately i mentioned because, this rate was before half year, so i dont know exactly todays rate).
So this all will cost you maximum Qr.1500. I hope this all information will be supportive information for you. Any help need more, you can contact me on my e-mail which is [email protected].
This all i know because, this all happend on me.
good luck
According to the new rule you have to pay the transfer fee Qrls. 500 for each passport . The fee is not for the cancelation it is acctually for the transfer . I hope it helps . and it is a better option other wise your family have to travell outside Qatar and you know it would cost you much more than 2000 . ;-) better spend Qrls. 2000 . You dont have a choice .