Please find below currently collected experiences of kabayans who just recently came here (and some are still in our country, hoping, and some wanting to give up):
1. You cannot change que on the immigration lane that easy now. A ground officer will screen your papers before they assigned you to a specific lane. They said they now delegate lanes for working visa, business, tourist/visit visa.
2. Business visa now requires with different documents on different occasion and with different immigration officers. There are some instances that they will require you certificate from your current employer (Philippines) that they allow you to a business visit in Qatar (or any other country). Immigration officer will likewise ask you original or copy of company ID.
-Basically, immigration officers would ask you documents which you would never thought that they will require.
3. For visit/business visa, there's this data card (I forgot how they refer to this index card), where you need to submit to immigration officer. Several information like where you will stay, your relation to the person you will stay with, the cost of your return ticket. Immigration are aware of the "dummy ticket" being issued, so sometimes right there and there they may check the return ticket if it’s a "true" or dummy ticket only.
There's a lot more, but i would leave it to others to attest how they manage to surpass different ordeals they have encountered.
A lot has been having problems with the immigration lately, oftenly, it does not matter if you have complete documents, how you look and answer to them.. most of which matters as to "who" is the immigration officer interviewing you... now, if you have all the genuine papers and the guts, i suggest that you go to higher authorities and carry out a complain and seek some justification why you were denied boarding..
Please find below currently collected experiences of kabayans who just recently came here (and some are still in our country, hoping, and some wanting to give up):
1. You cannot change que on the immigration lane that easy now. A ground officer will screen your papers before they assigned you to a specific lane. They said they now delegate lanes for working visa, business, tourist/visit visa.
2. Business visa now requires with different documents on different occasion and with different immigration officers. There are some instances that they will require you certificate from your current employer (Philippines) that they allow you to a business visit in Qatar (or any other country). Immigration officer will likewise ask you original or copy of company ID.
-Basically, immigration officers would ask you documents which you would never thought that they will require.
3. For visit/business visa, there's this data card (I forgot how they refer to this index card), where you need to submit to immigration officer. Several information like where you will stay, your relation to the person you will stay with, the cost of your return ticket. Immigration are aware of the "dummy ticket" being issued, so sometimes right there and there they may check the return ticket if it’s a "true" or dummy ticket only.
There's a lot more, but i would leave it to others to attest how they manage to surpass different ordeals they have encountered.
A lot has been having problems with the immigration lately, oftenly, it does not matter if you have complete documents, how you look and answer to them.. most of which matters as to "who" is the immigration officer interviewing you... now, if you have all the genuine papers and the guts, i suggest that you go to higher authorities and carry out a complain and seek some justification why you were denied boarding..