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If your employer confiscates your passport in the UAE, you just have to call 80060 and you’ll have the police bringing it back to you real soon. It is illegal f
by rosndo 5y ago
If your employer confiscates your passport in the UAE, you just have to call 80060 and you’ll have the police bringing it back to you real soon. It is illegal for employers to do that, and enforcement is swift.
All low-skill immigrant workers have to watch an hour long video explaining this (and all their other rights) in order to get their visa.
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Edit: Sorry, I can’t reply to you below darkteflon. I’ve seen the worker camps, but I’ve also extensively toured India and it’s neighboring countries. UAE and Qatar only look bad when compared with the West, but in reality they’re doing more to help these people than the Western countries which would never even grant them visas.
> This is not a Rule of Law jurisdiction
Sure, I agree. I have a plenty of bad things to say about these countries, but I think that their treatment of migrant workers is a particularly weak criticism.
I’ll accept the criticism as valid the day Western countries start offering visas to similar categories of migrant workers.
- baybal2 5y ago
- darkteflon 5y agoCome on man. If you’ve lived there, you’ve seen the work camps and the conditions those guys live in, and you’ve seen accounts of their de facto imprisonment. This is not a Rule of Law jurisdiction.
- silicon2401 5y ago> If your employer confiscates your passport in the UAE, you just have to call 80060 and you’ll have the police bringing it back to you real soon I find this argument either naive or dishonest. Any average adult knows there's a big difference between how things are supposed to work in theory and how they actually go.
- rosndo 5y agoCan you provide some evidence that it doesn’t actually work like this? My UAE based lawyer is certainly convinced that MOHRE enforcement is very strict.
- me_me_me 5y agoAll you have to do is spin anticlockwise twice, clap 5 times, say magic word and poof bad people with stop being bad. Everyone knows that in X country. At this stage you cant say if they are naive or a troll.