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wavelength · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:11 pm Post subject: Lame but necessary questions

I have a 90 day visa for Saudi, but now the company is messing me about with the start date.

Can I use the 90 visa to travel with another company?
Is I take an offer from another company, will this 90 day be voided?

Thanks

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

An employment visa is valid for 90 days, but I assume you're referring to a business visit visa. Regardless, visas are tied to a specific sponsor and aren't transferable from one sponsor to another. If you accept an offer from a different company, either wait for your business visit visa to expire, or request the current sponsor cancel it.

wavelength · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:37 pm Post subject:

OK. Thank you.

plumpy nut · Joined: 12 Mar 2011 Posts: 1652

If it's an employment visa, it's attached to the company that you originally were contracted to work for. You won't be able to work for another company on that visa, nor will any other company hire you. You could take your medical tests and degree attestations and apply for another visa. Contact the company that is screwing around with you and see if they will cancel the visa.

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

wavelength · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:22 am Post subject:

I started to do the medical before anyone asked for it. Got the blood work done, but then they said to forget about it. That I didn't need it and would do a medical once I arrived in Saudi.

Actually, I get conflicting information from different companies. For example, some companies will accept my degree with Apostille that I already paid for. Some want me to send my degree back to the states. It's all very confusing, because my degree is American, but my passport is British, which places me under the Hague Convention.

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

nfig77 · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:22 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure if the business visa is tied to a company per se. Certainly a company may pay the fees and help expedite the processing of a business visa, but beyond that I don't know.

CANDLES · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:40 pm Post subject:

It is tied to the company and is valid for 30 days, upon which it gets renewed every month by going off to Bahrain.

If you don't use it you are liable to pay the visa fees.

wavelength · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:41 am Post subject:

Thanks plumpy nut, nfig77, and candles,

It's a 90 day visa, so I'm assuming it's a business visa. Candles, if I don't use it, the company will never hear from me anyway.

There are also many other countries that are interesting to me besides Saudi, which seems to be full of difficult to deal with people. Those other countries don't pay as well, but some of them come pretty close.

plumpy nut · Joined: 12 Mar 2011 Posts: 1652

It's because you weren't required to have extensive medical lab tests done in your home country that says it was not an employment visa.[/i]

wavelength · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:29 pm Post subject:

Yeah, apparently I fly over on business and get iqama while there. Seriously, after two months of dealing with Saudi's, who seem to think the universe revolves around them, I could take it or leave it at this point, whatever the rules are.

sicklyman · Joined: 02 Feb 2013 Posts: 930

heh heh... well that isn't going to get any better!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

"Come on a business visa and then we can sort out an Iqama." they are messing around with you.

MuscatGary · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 4:42 pm Post subject:

Is this to work for a College of Excellence by any chance?