Indians will not need fitness certificates to work in UAE >From Indo-Asian news Service
Dubai, July 3 (IANS) Indians seeking employment in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will not be required to submit medical fitness certificates to work in the country. A UAE health ministry official said the idea that foreigners from the seven Asian countries seeking residence visas in the Gulf provide a fitness certificate before coming to the region was mooted in a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) executive office meeting. He said the UAE would not be implementing this particular regulation. The requirement was recently implemented by Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Oman. The UAE will not implement the fitness certificate requirement for people from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia and Pakistan looking for work in the country. The GCC's foreign workforce committee has discussed establishing offices in many Asian countries to check foreigners who want to get residence visas in the Gulf and provide them with fitness certificates before they enter any GCC country, the official was quoted as saying in Gulf News. "The idea has been discussed in many meetings in the last few years. Recently, the meeting resulted in giving Gulf countries the option to either implement this idea or not." Under UAE laws, any foreigner who wants to enter the country on residence visas must obtain the fitness certificate on reaching the country. The residence visas are stamped only once they clear the test. Earlier, GCC countries had said foreigners seeking residence visas to a GCC member state from the Asian countries will have to produce a health fitness certificate attested by an authorised agency in their countries from Wednesday. "A regulation is already in place since 1995 for producing a health fitness certificate before coming to any GCC country on a resident visa for nationalities of the seven countries," Ali Dawood Hassan, advisor director general of health affairs at the Oman's health ministry, had said. Hassan, who is supervising the new rule's implementation in Oman, revealed that plans were afoot to include some Arabian and African countries for medical fitness certificates before allowing their citizens entry to GCC countries. --Indo-Asian News Service =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
