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I deal with UAE visa and government procedures regularly and noticed there are often questions here about the process.
Happy to share what I know about family/dependent visas, employment visas, MOHRE, GDRFA, visa cancellation/renewal, status change, medical fitness and Emirates ID.
If you have a general question, leave it below and I’ll try to point you in the right direction.
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Imagine dedicating over 25 years of your life to a multinational corporation.

Imagine working 11+ hours a day, 6 days a week, and regularly going into the office on Sundays—consistently working well beyond legal standards—without ever demanding extra overtime pay, purely out of dedication and loyalty to your work.

Now imagine that same company deciding it’s time to cut costs by purging veteran employees to replace them with freshers at lower salaries.

How do they choose to send off someone who spent a quarter-century building their business? With a formal thank you? A respectful farewell?

No. They slap them with a termination letter citing "performance issues."

Are you seriously telling me it took your management 25 YEARS to evaluate performance?

For 25 years, the work was good enough to profit off of. The 60+ hour workweeks were good enough to accept. The Sunday shifts were good enough to exploit. But the moment an employee reaches the final stretch before retirement—the moment their experience carries a higher salary—suddenly there’s a "performance issue"?

When confronted, upper management and the CEO hide behind the ultimate corporate shield: "It’s company policy."

"Company policy" didn't stop you from accepting 25 years of unpaid overtime. "Company policy" didn't stop you from relying on veteran expertise to keep your operations running. "Company policy" is just a spineless excuse to throw human beings away like disposable line items on a spreadsheet.

This isn't management—it's corporate greed at its absolute worst. Replacing decades of institutional knowledge, loyalty, and sacrifice with cheap labor right before a worker's well-deserved retirement isn't strategic; it's morally bankrupt.

To the executives hiding behind administrative buzzwords: no policy justifies stripping a loyal worker of their dignity. You haven't hidden your cost-cutting measures—you've just exposed how little your company values the people who made it successful.

Visiting for a day from Dubai.

Please suggest good food spots in Abu Dhabi. And please don't share options that are common with Dubai.

A huge fan of Shawarma, manakish, Chinese, American, and Desi food.

I have tried Beit el Khetyar, Zahrat Lebanon, Al Sultan (my favorite seekh kebabs), and Sultan Bakery.

Hi everyone,I am dealing with ongoing off-balance sensations and dizziness.

Vitamin D: Diagnosed with severe Vitamin D deficiency (11.33ng/ml) and currently 4 weeks into high-dose weekly supplementation.

Despite starting the medication, I am still experiencing unsteady/off-balance episodes, ear ringing, and jaw/neck tension.

Can anyone suggest a specialist? Any advice on managing persistent dizziness while rebuilding Vitamin D levels would also be greatly appreciated.

How long it will take to transfer the money to bank? I sent money in Lulu exchange yesterday and it’s gonna be 24hrs still the money hasn’t credited to my bank. Is this normal or what?

Hey everyone,

I'm planning a trip to Bosnia and the embassy told me I need an official invitation letter. Does anyone know a legit travel agency or company in Bosnia that can arrange one? and the cost ?