Hey dubaibound,

I Think what Elphaba is trying to say is that it is quite difficult to enter the country in the first place, to even be able to work or go to school. You bascially have three options:

1) you enter on a visitor visa (assuming your from Canada), in which case you have 60 days to find a job, and get the sponsorship ball rolling from what ever company

2) you are sponsored directrly out-of-country from here (Canada), in that case the company will get the ball rolling and have your "work visa" when you land waiting for you at the aiport.

3) Apply for Student Visa, from some of the various channels, such as the emirate embassy in ottawa. Allthough I dont know about how hard/feasible that is.

Even if you go into the country as a visitor and/or wanted to work as a student, no companies will do the official sponsorship papers for you to be legally entitled to work there.

Now if you want to enter on a student visa, and pick up a job under the table, that might be possible, but I find it extremly difficult that you will make a wage part-time enough to actually live in dubai, even with shared accomodation. You will need a car, and the cheap places to rent are outside of dubai, which means a tough time commuting in to get to university everyday.

unless your personal savings are substial enough to live on while you are finishing studies, I would say it would be very difficult to live/study and work in dubai.

Have you started the application for student visa with the UAE government?

Good luck! let us know how it goes.