Advise Needed
Dear Friends,
My Husband's employer is insisting to submit my passport (wife's) and my husband's passport to keep in the company. I would like to know the disadvantages of holding the passports with employer. The terms between my husband and his employer are not good right now.
Thanking you
go to the court and complain about it.
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No human can stop racism and its easier to make a deaf hear u than an ignorant.
Then How come the companies holding on to thousands of their workers passports :))))))))))))
the company has no rights on holding your and urs husband passportits just for the security of the company to hold ur passport ..my mom has been here for 20 years working in a company and they never asked for her passport(aside from other requirements they need to ask ..)just dont surrender it and yes consult the ministry of labour in doha...take care and hope u'll get to solve ur problem.....
They have no rights to hold the passport.
well u can keep your passport coz usually wife always under husbands sponsorship
IVE BEEN BLESSED 4 HAVIN U IN MY LYF, IF I HAD THE CHANCE I WUDN'T HESITATE 2 MAKE U MY WIFE.
Thanks for all your advices. We were living here for the past 4yrs, never my husband's employer asked for the passport, but this time he's insiting a lot for it.
i agree, it is a common practice here.
whether the employer holds the passports or not, the employees still need permission from the employer to go out of the country... so what's the point of keeping it with them. better ask your husband's company if they will take full responsibility in case of loss or damage before you surrender your passports.
you cannot leave the country without sponsor approval (Exit permit) ?
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Company has not right to hold employee and his family passports ... you may approach Ministry of Interior or Ministry of Labour office in Doha ...
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It is not legal, but unfortunately it is a common practice. However I read sometime ago in the Gulf Times that the government/human rights is against this practice. I dont really remember the article. However I were you I wouldnt give it. Remember the passport is property of your country. This is clearly written in your passport. Aisha-Taweela
neither my company told to surrender passport...its illegal...
i m here since 1987..... my company never told me to surrender mine or my family's passport anytime..
do not surrender your passport. contact your embassy
it is not common saudiresident. It is illegal.
its just common out here U have no choice
COOL GUY
my husband's employer did not ask for his or our passports at all , we been here since 2004
life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......
novi is correct it is illegal never surrender your passports to your husband sponsor
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compasionate with the aged, tolerant of the weak. Someday you will have been all of these."
consult a lawyer, or talk to some one you know locally, but do take a serious note on what novita is saying
it is illegal keeping employee's passport. You shouldnt surrender your passport to the employer.