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eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

What is the deal here? Should your contract in Spain expire tomorrow, say, and you are a Canadian citizen, say, and your KSA contract starts next week, say, can you, say, fly to KSA from Madrid?

Or do you have to make the asinine journey back to YYZ Toronto airport and THEN fly to KSA?

What is the law here?

freesoul · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:22 am Post subject:

your visa being sent to the designated embassy is valid for three month only at that embassy, although the visa itself is valid for one( or two) year/s.

Hope this bit of info is useful.

Citizenkane · Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 234 Location: Xanadu

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

The law is what is written in the contract. Get your point of origin as Canada and fly from where you want. My point of origin is London. I haven't been in the UK since 2002, and processed the visa and came from Colombo but I still get the London ticket, or 50% air fare.

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

wow, you have to be a logistics coordinator AND financial analyst just to calculate your air mileage, points of roigin/departure, and Pain-In-The-Buttocks threshhold, just to decide if all that honkin and hawkin and hiccuppin is worth a job in KSA!

not to mention THIS:

"Problem here is, if the CDC and FDA both advise strongly against getting "any live vaccine whatsoever" within a 30 day period of having received the Yellow shots (and there are a series of boosters one must get in order for the Yellow shot to work right, needing to be received on a strict time-table, like 1 booster every 14 days), we're now talking about getting a Yellow AND a Meningitis vaccine, and to avoid risk, these 2 properly done with boosters for Yellow would require atleast 60-70 days, safely speaking.

I think if the Retinal scan is done within those 70 days, the optic nerve merges with the retina in a Big Brother Tribute to Invasion of Privacy dogma, thereby fusing the nano-chip brain implant to the frontal lobes of their brains. Even worse, the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine will shortly be a requirement.

Then the CELTA and TESOL are worth nothing. Only the TEFL will count."

-by Eclectic

Citizenkane · Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 234 Location: Xanadu

Thanks ecletic, but we really don't need to read your opinion on retinal scans three times.

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

So sorry, Citizen. Thanks for your frankness. Are you the Forum Spokesperson? Who is "we"? You must be anglo-saxon, then.

johnslat · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:43 pm Post subject:

I just scanned the second and third post.

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

I think it is up to the fourth or fifth by now... I too have been practicing my skimming and scanning...

VS

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

Rosebud....Rosebud...

Pikgitina · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 420 Location: KSA

Chip-on-shoulder alert Exclamation

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

anglo-saxon alert.

johnslat · Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject:

Dear eclectic,

"Chip-on-shoulder alert ": individual specific

"anglo-saxon alert": generalized stereotype

Regards,
John

meri · Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 31

I have heard that you can change your point of origin if you have a good enough reason, such as a Canadian passport in your case. I'm not sure if having a spouse from another country is an acceptable reason, but my husband is currently in negotiations with the university on this point.

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

that is one helluva p-i-t-a (and I DON'T mean "bread"!), just to come to work in a country, for what could likely turn out to be 3 or 4 thousand riyals LESS than the stated amount.

As for chocolate chips and head 'n shoulders, I like neither sweets, NOR dandruff shampoos, Mr. Slat! Smile

Now if he woulda said something like "eclectic, just curious, why do you post the same thing 4 times?", I woulda responded in a more civil manner, as his question woulda been more civil than what he actually wrote.