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rasd · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 15

If you have worked in a GCC country Like UAE and have unpaid - even if they are illegitimate - bills, can you be held responsible in KSA?

How close are the ties and what are the sources to check?

007 · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject: Re: Debts in GCC

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

rasd · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 15

I applied for a loan and while I was given the loan I left the country - My wife was refused a residence permit becasue she had HEP. The when I went to bring her home we went to the hospital and found out she was very very sick and has since died. I never went back to The Emirates. The loan was never accessed and was in the bank last time I checked but after many many emails and phone calls they still say I owe the money and interest and late fees. Stupid and not true. But - Still there is an outstanding debt. That is why I ask. I always pay my bills and have excellent credit.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Sorry to hear about your wife.

It is hard to guess whether this "loan" will haunt you or not. You may have to just apply to jobs and see if anything comes up from it.

VS

rasd · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 15

Thanks for the condolences. I also have been exposed but i have taken treatment now and the virus is now undetectable - hard five months but I survived and i am now much more understanding of people with hep. She had apparently gotten it in a blood transfusion TO her father when he was in the hospital (country hospital in Thailand) and he passed just two years previous.
thanks again I will ask for a police check as part of my employment application - so I will know before I arrive and am put into a Saudi prison and beat once a week for the rest of my life.
RASD

007 · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Debts in GCC

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

rasd

I suppose that you know that if they detect the Hep in a blood test that will also keep you out of the Gulf. I hear that the treatment is pretty unpleasant, but hopefully the problem is behind you now.

I wouldn't worry about being jailed. The problem would show up before they gave you the visa to get in - or at least it would in the other Gulf countries. KSA is often the exception to the rule... wherever rules exist... Laughing

A new passport may be a good idea.

VS

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

If you are referring to hepatitis then the question is which one.

Hepatitis A is curable, but you will test positive for B and C in nearly all cases.

There are jobs where you are allowed to work with Hep C (university lecturer is one of them) but the odds of getting the visa from the embassy in the first place are pretty small.