doitforyou:

But at least you can buy a one way ticket and self deport. From what I read on this thread, you can’t self deport in the UAE, you will be thrown in jail because you’re owing fines from your overstay. If that’s true, that’s crazy!

lionlee216:
I be saying it, when u want to travel outside the country, kindly look at the immigration laws of the country you trying to move it. 2 people I know left UAE for US.

Why will someone hold my passport?You already answered this...


Can you guys drive in the UAE?
Working a whole 12hrs? Damn! Thats alot.
How many breaks are there in btw those 12hrs work?
Is there any benefit like medicals/paid time vacation/sick leave? Etc

Cc Champagnemami

doggedfighter:

Can you throw more light on CACHE certification. Duration and cost thanks

Champagnemami:
@doitforyou

Yea you get thrown in jail for some 3 months.

You usually face ds reality at the point of exit at the airport. So maybe at that point in time they might just decide to let you go. In which case a life ban will be placed on you. And I'm sure you know what that means even for visa applications to other countries.

But lets say the police busted you in a wrong situation like using the public transport and not logging in your card, then straight up to jail first, after 3months deportation, and then blacklist/ban

Larryfest:

You can drive in UAE as long as you have been tested and issued a drivers licence which cost about #700k above but the thing is if you are not too conversant with the road signs and networks na fine you go day use your money pay everyday, and as per the 12hrs job no jokes about it and your break might not be more than 30mins depending on where you work.

Cocao:
Please leave Champagnemami alone y'all. She is not the one that caused all these issues for UAE. she's not an agency, agent or employer, she created this thread to show the other side of living in the UAE legally. Let her proceed please

Champagnemami:
I graduated some 7 years ago. I studied English education. Got done with the clarion call, and with as much fierceness and vigor I could muster, faced the labor market.

I started with Abuja. People had told me knocking on company gates could be more favorable than submitting applications on line. The rational was that sometimes there was just a single opening and the company would not bother to announce online. And so with my credentials and CV, I began my door to door job search.

It was that time of the year when the sun in Abuja was as extreme as the ice in Alaska, but I didn't relent When I remember those times, I keep asking myself if some few nuts were unscrewed in my head. I was living with my sis and her family at the time. She kept asking me to slow down but I no gree o . Maybe i thought if I suffered more, the blessing would come faster. And just like that it continued for the next 3 years - every year I would relocate to a different city in search of greener pastures. None of such moves yielded any tangible result. at some point of course I stopped the door to door.

My family could see the misery I was in and reached out. There were two options- go to the UK for a masters, or train to become a nurse. Care job is my 'hatest' job. So deep down I knew it was going to be a masters degree but after the degree then what? Return to Nigeria to face the same labor market?? Though this prospect seemed like a step up, it still wasn't a solution.

The powers that be, the ones footing the bills insisted I went for a nursing course since it was more lucrative. At a point i wanted to say I no do again but my Sis in d UK suggested I come see first and then I'll understand why nursing was it. And so I packed my kaya, headed for the UK.

One day, I had just finished from a campus tour at middle sex university and was just chilling in a cafe. I overhead some people talking about working in the middle east. There was this agency who was locally interviewing for the position of teachers in Dubai and how a CACHE certificate provided an edge. I was able to grab the name of the agency and looked them up online. By the next day, I had registered for a cache course

lionlee216:


700k as in Seven hundred thousand naira only for a DL?

30mins break for 12hrs job is too small..

Here for 8/10hrs jobs at factories, You get 2 15mins break and a lunch break of 30mins..

For other menial jobs(excluding factories), You get breaks and 1hr lunch.

For 12hrs factory jobs, you get 3 15mins break and 30mins lunch..

How much does an average person save monthly on an a average job in UAE?

I heard people snatch passports and use it to travel home? Wont immigration detect them OR Africans look alike to UAE people too?

Can you be working at the same time schooling as to move up in career?

Thanks

NONNYG:
Many Americans and Europeans are moving to UAE to work because they make more here than back home. Here there's no income tax and so many benefits like health insurance, house allowance, paid tickets, phone bill allowance, children school fees, car allowance or free company transportation etc

NONNYG:


A Nigerian passport holder and American passport will be doing same job but will be getting different salary

lionlee216:


That's Americans and Europeans nah...

Does that same benefits apply to africans trooping in to UAE on a daily basis for work?

If you are in Nigeria, where will be your preferred destination if asked to choose one?

You know say na u suppose open this kind thread dey e lighten us but you are forgiven lol

Thanks

Champagnemami:
So I've been in the UAE for all of two years and boy has it been venturesome and hygge?

I've always wanted to write about my struggles in this seducing desert city but just never found the time.

'UAE' is a proper noun but I can't help myself, its always 'the UAE' to me.

I'll be taking y'all through steps on how i got here, how I got a means of livelihood, the stress and joy that comes with the job and all that.

Stay tuned.

lionlee216:


"Green Passport" vs " Blue Passport"

Nawa ooo

NONNYG:
The difference is clear nah, I'm just using Nigeria as example, it could be A German and Indian, they will never get same salary

truthsayer009:


Congrats, i would say you are a hustler & it's good to know women like you. I also studied at Middlesex for BSC. Most of my colleagues came back to Nigeria with no jobs & are even earning as low as 50k in 2014.

I have since then been advising people not to travel to UK for studies as its a proper waste of time.

I only feel since you studied nursing and its more lucrative and stable career path than teaching. I could be wrong tho.

lionlee216:


So what's the future of those that overstayed?

Is there any pathway to citizenship?

Does UAE Nationals date Foreigners esp Africans?

What's d average savings in a month ?

AntiMCU:

At the bold, are you serious?

Who still goes to the U.K for educational purposes?

Such person is uninformed.

NONNYG:
Hmmm, if you're following UK news then you will know you're the one who's uniformed

AntiMCU:

At the bold, are you serious?

Who still goes to the U.K for educational purposes?

Such person is uninformed.

AntiMCU:

I don't follow.

What's the latest?

Larryfest:

Your employer will seize your passport except you are on a freelance visa which is quite different from the 2yrs work visa and the freelance visa is very expensive, just like someone said up there it's more or less modern day slavery but you won't know until you get there and experience it yourself.

truthsayer009:
nun

Did you see the year? I said 2014 graduate. I'm sure the knowledge you had now, you didnt have it back then. Thats how we all feel.

Dear Champagnemami, please continue your story when you have free time. Thanks for the enlightenment.

Champagnemami:


Sorry dont get your question.
Can you rephrase?

Champagnemami:
@kelechi50

There's slavery everywhere.
Best bet is to stay in your home country.

You think its all rosy in Europe and the Americas.

Yeah granted no one holds your passport but you see instances where people live in advanced countries and dare not make a move out of the country, stuck there for even up to 10yrs cos its a requirement for papers