KayZ
June 9, 2011, 7:57am
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Re: I don’t get something about Dubai.
So there were a couple of rich kids back in my school in Pakistan. I check out their Twitter/Myspace/Facebook/Orkut, and seems like they all live in Dubai in some way or the other. What I don’t get is how are they actually in Dubai so much? I thought Dubai was pretty strict with visas for people with the hara passport? If you didn’t have any reason to be there, you had to get a visit visa. These people seem to be in and out of Dubai all of the time, driving fancy cars, houses, etc etc.
Also, what I don’t get is, how are there so many fashion designers based out of Dubai. Again, aren’t they very strict about work visas? Or can any fashion designer just setup shop there and be based out of Dubai? Maybe their husbands have full time jobs and they are on family visa, but again, I thought they had restrictions on foreigners running businesses and such.
And this thread is about rich/well off people, no need to bring up teendabbywalas, mazdoors, tandoorchis, bawarchis or yourselves who are usually getting the shaft in terms of pay, living, facilities and everything else.
not sure about the latest situation in Dubai but people were getting resident permits upon buying properties and that was the reason that a lot of people from Pakistan started enjoying their time there. Plus getting a resident permit of Dubai qualifies them for applying visa from there for countries and thus reduces hassles for EU, UK and USA visas.