Family visa now linked with salary -- Your feedback please

Over here, the newspapers choose to publish one thing, the gossip lines convey another, and no one really knows what the rules of the game are until we really see it happening on the ground.

The case of the fingerprinting saga is a good one as an example.

Family visas should have been allowed for any expat making sufficient money to support them right from the beginning in the mid 70s. This would have saved billions of Riyals in foreign exchange throughout the past 40 years.

The fear was the impact the expat families, especiually the ones from the 3rd world will have on the local populace. Dubai is a good case in point where the localsall speak Hind and Urdu now instead of Arabic.

Whats in culture and language anyway? It does not put food on the table...