Good luck with the 'fun run', whether it's sponsored by Visa, MasterCard, American Express or whoever. Not a great time of year for a run though, you may want to suggest to the organisers that they do the run in the winter in future....

Survived.

Absolute, monolith of a ball ache though and took 5 hours door to door.

At least I can get home now and have another temporary visa.

Now for the arse kicking to begin

how much were you fined ??

AED 2910

2900 fine, 10 for admin - 39 days over my original 30 day visa, so....100dhs a day minus 10 day's grace.

Then another 200dhs for the Oman stamps in and out.

So quite expensive really, and a waste of the company's cash

has the company even started the visa process?

Nope.

Don't get me started.

No trade license at the moment, haven't had one since end of March (before I started)...issue is the name on it has now left the company, we are the result of two businesses merging so it is just a bit of mess.

looks like a monthly trip out then... as someone said before it should be in works time

Yeah, apparently the license arrived yesterday but that leaves it too fine to get it all processed and medical done before I go home at the end of the month for five days.

But, that being said, I got told a few weeks ago that my passport was being processed and fast-tracked despite it magically being waiting for me in the safe....

Ahhh the old magic reappearance of the Passport ploy!

I wasn't surprised when I heard it was still in the office.

BTW Your Passport should only disappear for one day! - When they put the Visa Stamp in.

What do you mean? Does it not need to be with the immigration mob with a form and photo's etc for processing?

I haven't really got a clue and by all accounts it doesn't seem like our PRO has a clue either.

There are two parts to the process. One with the Labour Office, and one with Immigration. The majority of the work is now done on-line. With my last Visa, I only needed to give my PRO a Passport Copy, and Photographs, etc. After the Medical he came over to see me a couple of days later, took my Passport to Immigration, and it was back the following day. A good PRO is worth his weight in gold!

Tell me about it.

Check your Personal Mail. I have just dropped a message there.