Your e-mail resignation is not valid unless you met an accident or got VERY SICK with medical impediment.

Doing what you said (not coming back) is still considered absconding because you still ran away from your work obligations here in Qatar. That is also considered BREACH of CONTRACT.

However It would still be the prerogative of your employer.

In example: Our secretary did that last year. Her mother suffered massive stroke and we allowed her to go on EMERGENCY LEAVE. She decided not to come back. She returned all company assets (laptop, blackberry, petty cash fund etc). I just had her visa cancelled so maybe she will come back next year without needing an NOC from our company.

Unless our mandoop filed her name as blacklisted in the system. I better ask our mandoop tomorrow, me think.