Question: An employee who works in a contracting company as engineer, but the functional name in his work visa and ID card has been given as worker. He wants to get the profession changed in the ID card and work visa from worker to engineer. Hence he wants to know the procedure in order to change the profession as he feels too embarrassed to show his identity card to others.
Answer: The Department of Labour regulates the procedures to amend the profession in accordance with the form filled by those who wish to modify or change their profession. In these procedures, the concerned person will submit a letter to the management of the administrative affairs of the company in which he works requesting the amendment of the name mentioned in the identity card with the real name with which he was appointed and what correspondents to the functional task which he performs in the company. On the basis of this letter, the management will prepare a new work contract for the employee with the new profession and two copies of the certificate will be issued for the person who is concerned with the correct name. The company will fill up the form designed to amend the profession and get the required signatures on the contract and the attached letters as well as the form by the director of the company who is authorised to sign and the papers will be enclosed with the photocopies of the academic degrees obtained by the employee and a personal photo.
The contract will be certified by the Department of Labour and the form as well as the attached papers will be submitted to the Department of Labour by the employee who is concerned with the matter personally or through the company’s representative. The matter will be reviewed with the Department of Labour in order to take appropriate action after verifying the authencity of the request and then the procedure will be completed in the Department of Expatriates’ Affairs until the amendment of the professional name is done in the identity card and work visa with the
Question: An employee who works in a contracting company as engineer, but the functional name in his work visa and ID card has been given as worker. He wants to get the profession changed in the ID card and work visa from worker to engineer. Hence he wants to know the procedure in order to change the profession as he feels too embarrassed to show his identity card to others.
Answer: The Department of Labour regulates the procedures to amend the profession in accordance with the form filled by those who wish to modify or change their profession. In these procedures, the concerned person will submit a letter to the management of the administrative affairs of the company in which he works requesting the amendment of the name mentioned in the identity card with the real name with which he was appointed and what correspondents to the functional task which he performs in the company. On the basis of this letter, the management will prepare a new work contract for the employee with the new profession and two copies of the certificate will be issued for the person who is concerned with the correct name. The company will fill up the form designed to amend the profession and get the required signatures on the contract and the attached letters as well as the form by the director of the company who is authorised to sign and the papers will be enclosed with the photocopies of the academic degrees obtained by the employee and a personal photo.
The contract will be certified by the Department of Labour and the form as well as the attached papers will be submitted to the Department of Labour by the employee who is concerned with the matter personally or through the company’s representative. The matter will be reviewed with the Department of Labour in order to take appropriate action after verifying the authencity of the request and then the procedure will be completed in the Department of Expatriates’ Affairs until the amendment of the professional name is done in the identity card and work visa with the
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