Assalamu Alaykum
After I finish school in 7 or so years, I am planning to move to Saudia Arabia. I will be a Medical Technologist inshaAllah and I chose this career becuase this job is offered there in every hospital. I am a religious person so I thought there is no better choice in life than be able to work in only female hospitals in Mecca, inshAllah. Near kab'ah. I am thinking this is a marvelous, wise decision.
However, I have read women must have a sponsor on Airport??? How have women here made it to Saudia Arabia wihtout a mahram? Were they able to ?
I do have mahrams but they are all brothers and my father is deceased. My brothers may or may not accompany me. I do not want to live in U.S. living alone in some apartment. I would not feel safe. And I am timid to report anything beng a Muslim to non-Muslim government.
But they probably won't so I wondered is it possible to go there and be admitted there without a mahram? Can anyone be your sponsor?
How do you get the work visa? And then you renew it each year, right?
Also, are there buses to get around by? If not, how do they get around? Are main strores nearby?
Do you have to know Arabic to work there?