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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (317901)12/30/2006 6:51:22 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) of 1577031
 
"If you don't have a job, you won't have a visa sponsor, and you can't live here."

THAT'S what I'm getting at! What happens to THOSE people? What if they don't leave?

Well you can leave the country each month and re-enter the next day on a 30 day tourist visa. This is what the a lot of the hookers do. But if you don't have a job, don't have a working visa, and overstay your tourist visa, then when you finally do leave you get billed $25 per day that you overstayed your tourist visa. With wages ~$500 per month for 6 days per week, it doesn't make financial sense to be in the UAE without a legal job. People don't really do "part time work" (aside from the prostitutes). Anyone that wants to work full time will have an employer and can thus get a work visa.

I mean, if you weren't from here, and didn't have a job, there isn't much reason to stay. There's almost no "underground" labor market, the real labor market wages are low enough that there isn't a reason for it.
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