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Unemployed expats are leaving their (unpaid for) cars at Dubai airport, and fleeing the emirate in their droves. Or maybe they aren’t. But it still begs the question – if you lose your job in Dubai are you better off getting out ASAP, or hanging on for something new.
Last week the London Times suggested that over 3,000 cars had been abandoned at Dubai Airport. Expats who lost their jobs, and who had received internationally untraceable car loans from local banks, were just cutting their losses and hopping on a plane home.
Dubai’s chief of police has since responded to these claims, and reckons just 11 cars have been abandoned at the airport. Suggestions to the contrary are part of “a fierce campaign against the reputation of the blooming city of Dubai”, he says.
If you’re an expat employed in the freezone of the DIFC, you’re not tied to the stringent visa policy that requires you to leave the country within a month of losing your job.
However, if you were made redundant, would you stay and search for another job, or would you just move home again? Your thoughts please….
Let’s get one thing straight – I am here because there are more jobs, and because I can earn more money. If I lose that job, I’m not going to stay.
The sad fact of the matter is that if I do lose my job, it’ll take me more than 30 days to find a new one at the moment, so I’ll be out of here.
I’ve lived in Dubai for over a decade. Let’s get one thing straight about Dubai – it’s a business. There is no love or loyalty. If you can add to the bottom line – you are free to stay. If you get old (over 60), or are now not contributing to the economy (unemployed) visa laws ensure that you are out of the system and country.
Things are pretty bad in Dubai. But at least it’s sunny.
The visa laws applied in the UAE are not too dissimilar to visa laws applied elsewhere around the globe for individuals who require visas to work in foreign countries – all of which are drawn up to limit overstayers and protect nationals of the prospective country.
Sunny? It’s not sunny, there’s always a smog that wraps the sky and makes it greyish…
How dare you dis Dubai? I love this place man. I am born to be here. I will never, ever, ever leave, unless I am surgically removed.
Yes… the situation in UAE is getting critical day by day due to the economic crisis… if we lose our job it is difficult to get a new offer particularly people who have family and children studying here… there is no other go but to return to our country.
Dubai!!!! will be bak to normal after, say 10 years
I’ve started getting contacted by employers to find them some suitable candidates for various roles. So, it seems things are shaping up once again.
I lost my job in Dubai 3 months ago and had just one interview. I have 10 yrs experience and MSc and MBA from UK so I dont blame my CV for this. The worrying thing is Dubai is least active in summers which will soon start and then we have Ramadan in August so I cant believe that the recovery has started. I hope I am wrong. Will wait till June before I decide to leave.
I lost my job in Dubai 3 months ago and had just one interview call ever since.. I have 10 yrs experience and MSc and MBA from UK so I dont blame my CV for this. The worrying thing is DUbai is least active in summers which will soon start and then we have Ramadan in August so I cant believe that the recovery has started. I hope I am wrong. Will wait till June before I decide to leave.