Business Visa - How does it work ?
Dear Kababayans,
Need your help, from whoever knows the answers and who can give me light to all of my questions about the subject.
1. I will be on business visa from a sponsor in Qatar. And I understand that it is valid for a month and can be extended for another 2 months. Is converting this business visa to work visa easy and takes short period of time ? Or does it need a month or so ?
2. If I can acquire work to a different company other than my sponsor ? What will be the processing of transferring he sponsorship ? Will the "new" company process this with my sponsor or me ? Do I need to get out of Qatar while this is in process (in case) ?
3. If my business visa is to be processed or to be converted to work visa - what are the documents required to be submitted ? Does it depend on the (work) visa to be applied ? Because I have a brother who had the same experience (business-work visa) - but he was not required of any documents while his business visa is converted to work visa. While I have a friend also who had the same (business-work) and he was asked to get all his documents authenticated by DFA and Malacanang and all that red-ribbon stuffs. Can you please help me clarify this ?
4. Is there such a thing like minimum salary package in Qatar ? How much minimum salary is there for a secretary or a regular office worker ? Can you please give me an idea ?
5. Last but not the least - in Qatar immigration (airport) - how do they handle people coming on business visa ? Are they harsh on asking questions ? (Maybe) what type of questions are they asking.
Hope anybody out there can help me...
Thank you in advance !
Salah2008 is not Filipino, they wanted replies only from Kabyans means there country mates (Filipino)? you dont desirve replies from other nationalities.
1- B.VISA IS VALID FOR 1 MONTH EXTENDABLE FOR A SECOND MONTH ONLY WITH APPROVAL ( NOT STRAIGHT EXTENSION). CONVERTING B.VISA TO WORK VISA TAKES 1 HOUR PROVIDED NOC IS PROVIDED.NO NOC IS REQUIRED IF W.V IS PROVIDED BY SAME SPONSOR.
2- U ONLY NEED NOC FROM THE B.V PROVIDER. NO NEED TO LEAVE QATAR TO CHANGE VISA, FEES TO BE PAID
3-ONLY NOC FROM B.V. SPONSOR + W.VISA APPLICATION FROM NEW SPONSOR.
4- NO MIN. WAGE IN QATAR, IT DEPENDS ON OFFER BY THE COMPANY AND UR ACCEPTANCE.
5- THEY DON'T ASK ANYTHING IN AIRPORT IMMIGRATION.