Well, that depends. For my experience, my basic salary and stated in the contract was below the QR7500 mark. But because the salary that i was receiving on a monthly basis (housing, transpo and food allowance), it goes well beyond the QR7500 limit. The reason why the government capped a minimum requirement on the salary is because they want to make sure that your family will be living comfortably with your salary. Make the calculations...how much will be left from your salary if you will bring your family here? Will you have enough money to save, or your salary will just be enough for you and your family to survive in a month? That's how the ministry judges the application. If, based on your computation, you won't have any savings left, i doubt the ministry will approve it.

It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare, it's because we don't dare that makes things difficult!