Visa Application for Filipinos

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Several overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are facing tough exit procedures at Philippine airports as authorities have tightened screening on ‘undocumented’ workers, local daily Gulf News reported on Saturday.

Those who entered UAE on a visit visa but subsequently managed to find a job must show valid employment documents to Philippine officials, failing of which may prevent them from flying back to the UAE, the report said.

The Philippine Overseas Labour Office (Polo) in Dubai said those workers without their overseas employment certificate (OEC) from Dubai may face trouble during exit in Philippine, the paper reported.

“It is POEA (Philippine Overseas Employment Administration) that requires the documents of those applicants/OFWs who left the Philippines with undocumented status, meaning departed the Philippines on visit visa and after sometime found employment in the UAE,” the paper quoted a Polo official in Dubai as saying.

According to the paper many Filipinos in the Gulf emirate have shrugged off the tough screenings as another money-making venture, but some have welcomed it.

“It is for our own good. There are established rules in place. Everyone leaving our country for whatever purpose must be properly documented,” the paper quoted Lisa Magno Concepcion, leader of the Filipino Community in Dubai as saying.

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UAE: No visa renewal without ID

In a month’s time, Dubai & Sharjah will follow in the other emirates’ footsteps to link the ID card to visa renewals in Free zones in both the cities.

Dr. Ali Al Khoury, the Director General of EIA said that Ajman and Abu Dhabi are also expected to undergo similar procedures within the next two months.

The authority took this initiative as part of extending the linking system to create a smoother running process of residency and labour. All expatriates who want to undergo medical tests to renew their respected visas will have to register for the ID cards first. When the linking process is complete, ID registration will become a mandatory prerequisite to visa renewal.

The Emirates Identity Authority reached out in cooperation to all preventive Medicine Centers, to extend joint services to conduct visa medical tests all across the country, by the end of 2011.

All steps in this initiative work towards their final strategy to enroll all expatriates in the country by the end of 2013. The issuance and renewal of visas with the ID card have has already been implemented in Umm al Quwain, Fujairah and RAK.

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