Work Permits or Visas

[mogg]

Take copies of your passport and passport pics if you go early you can get it the same day with a 2 hour wait or they tell you to come back the next day which doesn't always work. Form you get them from the police counter which is on the a cross from the desks just ask them for a tourist visa then get stamps which you pay only 11le for I got way to much last time and had to have a chat to get money back you can also pay the fine at this time so you are safe at the airport. People have been taken to a small room for a little chat just to scare them no harm done. Hope this helped

[Chegwin]

Originally Posted by MaidenScotland

Yes you can do your own visa, however at this stage of the game I personally wouldn't bother as it might take a bit of explaining.. Pay your fine when you leave. I have never known anyone to be interrogated when leaving the country and start afresh when you come back.

Just your passport is needed to renew your visa..

Thank you so much

[MaidenScotland]

Originally Posted by Chegwin

Thank you so much

When I say your passport I mean you don't have to fill in forms, passport phots, copies of your passport etc are needed...


Your new employer will arrange your HIV test.

[Whitedesert]

Originally Posted by MaidenScotland

Yes you can do your own visa, however at this stage of the game I personally wouldn't bother as it might take a bit of explaining.. Pay your fine when you leave. I have never known anyone to be interrogated when leaving the country and start afresh when you come back.

Just your passport is needed to renew your visa..

Your statement is true Maiden, but ONLY for 1st world passports, that is not what happens to South Africans, and most other 3rd world passports, so we would not even dare trying to pass immigration with an expired visa.

[Lanason]

Originally Posted by Whitedesert

Chegwin, this is simply all wrong and I am surprised at you having accepted this scenario. You MUST have both a work permit and a residence visa to be able to work legally in Egypt. I work for an Egyptian multi-national, and they have a specifc department that arranges all of that for their foreign expatriate workforce. I dont even have to remember the documents are due, I get a call asking for my passport, and get it back 3/4 days later with residence visa stamped in the passport, and the work permit (a seperate page). Once a year or something you need to go for a HIV blood test, which is then arranged when necessary. They are in breach of very important interior ministry immigration laws! Things have been very slack on this front, but dont expect it to continue.

I work for an Egyptian company (and I'm the only non Egyptian) and as said above, the relevant guy contacts me every now again - takes me for a blood test and takes my passport and brings back Visa and Work Permit. All totally legal and legit.

The school is totally wrong in their actions. If there are enough of you get together and have one last go at getting legalized. Sorry to say this, but if not then stop working or leave. Now is not the time to be foreign and breaking the law.

[Lanason]

Originally Posted by mogg

Take copies of your passport and passport pics if you go early you can get it the same day with a 2 hour wait or they tell you to come back the next day which doesn't always work. Form you get them from the police counter which is on the a cross from the desks just ask them for a tourist visa then get stamps which you pay only 11le for I got way to much last time and had to have a chat to get money back you can also pay the fine at this time so you are safe at the airport. People have been taken to a small room for a little chat just to scare them no harm done. Hope this helped

Hang on a moment. If you are working getting a Tourist Visa is useless, and a work permit must be sponsored by your company. If you take this route, i think yoiu are asking for trouble.

[Lanason]

Originally Posted by Whitedesert

Your statement is true Maiden, but ONLY for 1st world passports, that is not what happens to South Africans, and most other 3rd world passports, so we would not even dare trying to pass immigration with an expired visa.

If there are 1st world and 3rd world - who are the 2nd world

[Lanason]

ok so here is the original defintion of 1st, 2nd and 3rd world

[MaidenScotland]

Well I work without a visa.. but then I am special lol

[Lanason]

Originally Posted by MaidenScotland

Well I work without a visa.. but then I am special lol

special http://youtu.be/PYpmT2Ie7FA

maybe a little politically incorrect