RE: Job Offer

["Jennifer Fuller" <JFuller -at- lynksystems -dot- com>]

Hi Shampa --

I've got family and friends who have lived and worked in the Mid East
(Oman, UAE, Saudi), and holding a passport is a common practice for
employers of non-national contractors.  

Here's the drill:  you arrive for work and surrender your passport to
the employer.  If it is a large company, this would be HR, and it is
kept with your personnel file.  If it is a small company, it is kept
with your boss.  Should you need to leave the country for vacation or
personal reasons, you must ask them for it before you get a travel visa.
If they don't give you the passport, then you don't travel.  For
professionals (engineers, doctors), it is usually straightforward to get
the passport back for travel.  

However, if I were going for a job in the US or Europe, I would be
*very* reluctant to hand them over.  They can make due with certified
copies.

Jennifer 


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