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Sheikh Abdullah
Joined: 07 Mar 2009
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Location: California, USA
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If you want to get your medical exams done for a good price then do as follows.
Sign up for insurance through Kaiser Permanente.
Sign up for the 225 premium and all doctor visits will cost you only 10 dollars.
Get all your lab, chest x-ray, and poop test done.
After 2 weeks cancel your insurance and off to Saudi you go!
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Dear Sheikh,
Pretty neat - and there are no unpleasant financial side-effects?
Regards,
John |
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El Chupacabra
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
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Location: Kwangchow
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| felton wrote: |
However, if you are like me and submitting to SACM in D.C., then the x-rays don't need to be sent; they are given to the health officials one you arrive in KSA (it says this at the bottom of the medical form).
I, too, recently returned from Asia, but I don't think it has anything to do with that. |
Good point. The X-rays stay with our luggage.
The bilharziasis/schistosomias screening is probably apropos for me, That'll teach me to stop flyfishing in the Philippines.
Once again, I'm really grateful for the origination of, and participation in, this thread. |
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Sheikh N Bake
Joined: 26 Apr 2007
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Location: Dis ting of ours
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Four months ago I did not have to bring or supply the actual Xray images--only the report. Nor did I need the actual lab tests. I was told this specifically by the visa handler my company referred me to in Washington. I don't see why some Americans would have to submit all this stuff and others wouldn't, unless (a) the KSA foreign-affairs ministry has since changed the rules, or (b) because in fact you just came from some disease-ridden place. But then, I had just come from a job in Equatorial Guinea!
However, I did have to submit to a second set of Xrays in the kingdom. You may have to as well regardless of whether or not you carry your US ones with you. They certainly don't trust any outside HIV or stool sample test. You have to do them all over again after you arrive. |
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batman1
Joined: 02 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:47 am Post subject: Do you have to be in your native country to get the physical |
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| I was just wondering, since I am in Turkey, how the medical would work. Has anyone gotten their visa processing done outside of their native country? |
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El Chupacabra
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
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Location: Kwangchow
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: Re: Do you have to be in your native country to get the phys |
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| I was just wondering, since I am in Turkey, how the medical would work. Has anyone gotten their visa processing done outside of their native country? |
If only this were allowed, then my life would be a lot easier. I was resident in India when i accepted my job offer, and could have had all the medical tests done inexpensively. According to my recruiter, you have to apply for the Saudi employment visa in your home country. |
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Cleopatra
Joined: 28 Jun 2003
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Location: Tuamago Archipelago
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| According to my recruiter, you have to apply for the Saudi employment visa in your home country. |
Not neccessarily - people do sometimes apply abroad, provided they can prove that they have legal residence status in the country where they apply. It can make the process more difficult, however, and some employers will insist you return to your home country to apply. |
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El Chupacabra
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
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Location: Kwangchow
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| According to my recruiter, you have to apply for the Saudi employment visa in your home country. |
Not neccessarily - people do sometimes apply abroad, provided they can prove that they have legal residence status in the country where they apply. It can make the process more difficult, however, and some employers will insist you return to your home country to apply. |
I had legal residence status in India, and still was advised to to return to the dustbowl United States to obtain my employment visa.
This is literally the visa run from hell. |
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Sheikh N Bake
Joined: 26 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| (Yes, New England, the Northwest, Florida etc. are such green dustbowls. Ah, for the green and underpopulated pastures of India. You want a dustbowl, wait till you get to Saudi. Not to mention 120 F. temps.) |
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El Chupacabra
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
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Location: Kwangchow
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Sheikh N Bake wrote: |
| (Yes, New England, the Northwest, Florida etc. are such green dustbowls. Ah, for the green and underpopulated pastures of India. You want a dustbowl, wait till you get to Saudi. Not to mention 120 F. temps.) |
Actually I was analogizing to the "The Grapes of Wrath", on account of the desparate socioeconomic situation here in the once prosperous US of A. However my current climate zone is not very much different than the Najd. You might say I'm already acclimatized for the extreme dry heat. As a desert rat, I'm really looking forward to teaching in the KSA. Once all the requisite blood draws and anal probings are completed, of course. . . |
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pegycove
Joined: 07 Aug 2009
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Location: saudi arabia
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too much information El Chupacabra but thank you for sharing
pegy |
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EFLUndercover
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I was on a tourist visa in a Gulf country and flew into Bahrain to get my work visa. Bahrain seems to be the easiest route to come in if you can convince your employer to send it there. Also, you don't deal directly with the Saudi embassy you have to process your paperwork through a visa agency. If all goes well you can be in Saudi within a week after everything is processed.
Mind you this route may not be applicable in all situations and with all employers, but it's worth a try. |
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Sheikh N Bake
Joined: 26 Apr 2007
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Location: Dis ting of ours
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Economic downturns come in cycles. The US will turn up again. Ford is already having to increase production, for one thing.
You want excessive information? I have such a crush on my beautiful Vietnamese-American GP doc that I didn't let her do any rear-end examinations. (She kept on suggesting she check for certain male potential problems.) I thought My goodness, if I ever run into her at a supermarket or someplace, how could I flirt or ask her out if she'd performed such a procedure?...
Hope that's helpful.... ha ha
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El Chupacabra
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
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Location: Kwangchow
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| Sheikh N Bake wrote: |
Economic downturns come in cycles. The US will turn up again. Ford is already having to increase production, for one thing.
You want excessive information? I have such a crush on my beautiful Vietnamese-American GP doc that I didn't let her do any rear-end examinations. (She kept on suggesting she check for certain male potential problems.) I thought My goodness, if I ever run into her at a supermarket or someplace, I could never flirt much or ask her out if she'd performed such a procedure...
Hope that's helpful.... ha ha |
You could have leveraged that as an opportunity to exam her rear-end, SNB! Anyway glad to know there's a contingency job with the UAW in Michigan. Maybe I can teach Arab-Americans in Dearborn at the weekends. |
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Sheikh N Bake
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| I have a chiropractor friend who used to work in Dearborn. I visited her there. I can think of prettier places in which to crush people's backs...like beneath an expressway overpass in Fort Worth. If you go, leave your digicam at home. |
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