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Woman workers can now sponsor families Source THE PENINSULA

DOHA: The Ministry of Labour has begun receiving applications from women expatriate workers on independent work visas to sponsor their husbands and children. A majority of the members of the recruitment committee at the ministry tasked with clearing family visas are, however, required to approve family visa requests from women applicants.
This was disclosed by senior ministry officials during a news conference on Monday. The new sponsorship law allows women workers to sponsor their families. Earlier, only female expatriate workers of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and the Ministry of Education were allowed to sponsor their families.


But the new sponsorship law extends this privilege to women workers of the private sector as well who have independent work visas provided they fulfil salary requirements.

The ministry has set the minimum monthly salary limit for private sector foreign workers to sponsor their families to QR7,000. The limit, however, does not apply to government employees who are provided family accommodation. Their family visa requests can be considered even if their salaries are a bit lower. The salary limit of QR7,000 can, though, be reviewed keeping the living costs in mind, the officials said.

Ministry officials said they were supposed to interview 400 family visa applicants recently but the process had been delayed. �We are ready for the interviews now,� said Abdullah Al Mohannadi, head of the recruitment committee. Asked why the committee rejects family visa application of one expatriate while the application of another one from the same company drawing almost the same salary is accepted, the officials said family sponsorship requests could be rejected due to lack of supportive documents.

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New rules to curb free visa

Source ::: THE PENINSULA
DOHA: The Labor Ministry is tightening recruitment rules for companies in a bid to root out firms that �sell� free visas and to put an end to the problem of low-income workers escaping their employers.
The ministry is also setting up a unit at the Doha International Airport to monitor freshly-arriving workers who are left stranded by their employers. Companies whose workers who are found waiting for more than six hours after arrival at the airport will be taken to task and punished, senior ministry officials told reporters here on Monday.

Addressing a news conference, they said firms applying for work visas would need to provide salary payment records for the previous three months. And the salary payment records must be endorsed by the inspection wing of the Department of Labor.

Companies are also required to produce a letter from the National Workforce Department stating that no qualified Qatari is available for a job for which they need to recruit a foreign worker. The news briefing was held by Abdullah Al Mohannadi, director of recruitment and chairman of recruitment committee, Mohamed Saeed Al Nuaimi, head of inspection, Saleh Al Shawi, head of labor relations, and Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Attiyah, director of public relations at the ministry. A pilot project has been launched by the ministry on March 3 whereby companies are being asked to forward copies of employees� salary transfers to banks to check if they are paying their workers in time. This way, a comprehensive database is being developed.

The State Cabinet had earlier set up a committee headed by the Minister of Labor, Dr Sultan bin Hasan Aldhabit Al Dosri, to study the phenomenon of low-income workers escaping their sponsors. The minister, in turn, appointed a committee to make more strict recruitment rules for private companies. Labor officials will be visiting projects to assess whether the demand made by a company for workers is genuine and whether it really needs the number of work visas it has actually applied for. Reports by labor officials on labor lodgings of companies will also be scrutinised before approving their work visa requests. And main contractors hiring sub-contractors will have to vouch in writing for the latter if they apply for work visas to carry out projects.

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Revised immigration rules being enforced
Doha � Qatar has introduced a new immigration regulation from Friday for British nationals who have previously held a Qatari residence permit, according to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office website.

The British Embassy in Doha recommends British travellers to Qatar who have previously held a Qatari residence permit to contact their airline or the nearest Qatari Embassy to check the requirements, as it may not be possible for them to purchase visit visas on arrival at Doha.
Britons returning to Qatar will require a no-objection certificate from their previous sponsor to re-enter the country on a tourist visa if they are entering within two years of their residence permit getting cancelled.

"We have been made aware that a new (immigration) law has been implemented but are yet to receive an official communique to this effect," said a spokesperson for the British Embassy in Doha.
According to an unconfirmed report on Qatarliving.com, nationals from other countries like the United States, Australia and New Zealand will also be affected by the law. Earlier, a British visitor could obtain a 21-day single-entry visa on arrival at the airport, which could be extended by 14 days once in Qatar by the Immigration Authority. Around 40,000 British tourists visit Qatar every year, but only residents who had their Qatari residence permit cancelled in the past two years will be affected by the new law.

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[/quote]Dr Amin Mekki Medani said the governments were not doing enough to safeguard the rights of the large expatriate population in the GCC countries.
�None of these countries have ratified the convention on migrant workers. Migrant workers have rights. And it looks like they have no intention of doing so,� Dr Medani said.
�Foremost to the debate is the system of locals sponsoring expatriates, a system often linked to labour abuse and even human trafficking. Regardless of evidence of goodwill. So far nothing concrete can be seen,� Dr Medani said.

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