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NO MORE LETTER OF NO OBJECTION!!!!! horraaaaayyy
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teach777



Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:20 am    Post subject: NO MORE LETTER OF NO OBJECTION!!!!! horraaaaayyy Reply with quote
I returned to the UK on a final exit and came back to saudi recently ON THE SAME PASSPORT WITHOUT A NOC.

I was told in london that it has been scrapped.

Whatever next? transferrable iqamas??????
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Cleopatra



Joined: 28 Jun 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If this is true, and if the news has filtered down to all responsible for issuing visas, that it great news!


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Whatever next? transferrable iqamas??????


These already exist, don't they? What I'd love to see is the abolition of the exit-reentry visa requirement. But I don't think that's going to happen in the near future.
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Amenti



Joined: 09 Jun 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
or at least the abolishment of exit visas!
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Paul in Saudi



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
These things die hard. The issue now will be companies that still insist on a LONO even though they are no longer required.
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Stephen Jones



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Whatever next? transferrable iqamas??????
From the 28th October you may transfer from one private employer to another if you have completed a year of service in an unspecified term contract, a specified term contract, or your current sponsor can no longer employ you. The current sponsor cannot refuse the transfer under those circumstances.

I don't know whether or when this will apply to government-government transfers or to private-government or government private transfers.

Things are however at long last, moving in the right direction.
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scot47



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:29 pm    Post subject: January 2010 Reply with quote
16 January 2010

Today's Arab News has a letter in the "Law and You" Section confirming that the NOC is still required !

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=3&d=16&m=1&y=2010&mode=dynamic&pix=kingdom.jpg

So the advice about choosing a good Master still holds ! Be careful about those Articles of Indenture !
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freesoul



Joined: 09 Mar 2009
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
No changes to the obnoxious Kafeel system.

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20100115063650
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Stephen Jones



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A pretty sloppy article that scot47 links to. The fact that the person who asks for advice has broken his contract is not mentioned.

The Saudi government clearly stated that employers could not prevent those who had completed their contract from signing up for another employer, unless their was the question of passing on commercial secrets. Unfortunately the actual situation is a mess.

As the lawyer points out in the Arab News article the employer can/could hold somebody for one or three years. However the embassies insist on an NOC for the last two years.
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scot47



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think that depends on the Embassy/Consulate. I was not asked for one in Istanbul - although the employer asked me for one. Many employers still routinely ask for the NOC - including employers in the state sector.
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