NEW RULES LUNG SCAR IN UAE DUBAI

@XTang
Hi, i just want to clarify some things. I am still sort of confused.

I am currently working here in Dubai and planning to resign and look for a job in Abu dhabi as a Nurse. What's holding me is I have lung scars from severe lung infection diagnosed last 2021 of January here in Dubai.

If so I manage to look for a job in AUH, then will proceed for visa medical test including xray, they will see my scars.
*** Question is, what am I considered:

New visa or not? I am confused with NEW visa means ... just new in UAE or New visa because new employer.


Please enlighten me. Thank you so much
-@dubai peeps

Hello, according to my experience, you need a new visa with the new employeer or sponsor

@EL OUAZZANI Kenza

Hello 👋 

YES, i will be having a new employer. 

The question is, am I considered new visa holder (not candidate for FIT CONDITIONAL  -- NEW rule for with lung scar - visa medical)

Or I am old visa, meaning just resigned and new company?

@EL OUAZZANI Kenza

Because I want to know if I will be deported or ban in UAE just because I have lung scar  .. but I currently have a job , just want to resign and look  for another company..

I am afraid that I will be deported because of it.

@XTang thank you so much to you sir.

So I still have a chance to have a FIT medical only with ff up check ups then?

Thank you. You're a big help to everyone who's confused like me!

God Bless you sir.

@XTang how long for residents visa ? I have latent tb scar in my lungs n I want to come to dubai to stay with my husband with my 3 year old boy . Can I stay there for how many years ? Or months

1 year visa renewable. 

@XTang .Hi, I want to ask if how long should I wait more for my medical results from Muhaisnah fitness clinic? I had my 3rd day of sputum test and skin test last Dec.26,2022 and told me to wait for 3-4days for the result thru email but until now I haven't received any from them. What should I do? Can i go and ask the nurse who assisted me the last time? Or should I just wait then? I really want to know because this is my second employer and just this time I have issues about my medical . Also, I am worried because I am studying and about to finish my course and wanted to do the internship here as well but I don't know what wil gonna happen and if what wil be the result of my medical test. My employment visa wil expired on February 6,2023. Please give some advice. Thank you.

Just wait.  There is nothing you can do to get results any earlier.  If there is an issue, they will call you.

@XTang does dubai and abu dhabi have different opinion on lung scar for expats or just same?

@XTang is dubai and abu dhabi have different opinion on lung scar for expats or just same?

Same. Medical fitness is part of federal law and so applies to all Emirates.

XTang do you know what countries accept workers with lung scar? I really want to work abroad but I had this scar.

I can speak for the GCC countries only and unfortunately, none of them do.

@galjoan21

Hi, what happened to your medical ma'am?

im curious how come other candidates who have evident lung scar on xrays still get to be fit to work at gcc coming from outside country and never had records on gccvisa. The company is not even private but owned by govt.

@dubai peeps

Hello it came out unfit unfortunately

@galjoan21Hi mam, so you're currently working with employment visa.. you are for renewal maam? Then if it is like that, are you for deportation?

I thought it's FIT CONDITIONAL if already here in UAE as resident according to @Xtang .  he said that there's a rule that they will consider you as long as you are already here working and staying, but if NEW only and planning to have an employer here, they won't allow and deport you immediately.

Please enlighten me more mam. What happened?

@riyazismail03 Hi may i know how u got medical when u having scars??

Hello everyone,

Anyone know about medical treatment for the old TB scars??

Dear Xtang,

You are doing great job by providing valuable information. I had also gone through with all the process of medical unfit due to old TB scars and deported to home country after iris scan. I am planing to submit my case again is there any way I can apply for reconsideration.

@Documents

I also having the same issue and consulted with specialist. There is no treatment for old scars as you already have cured from TB.

There is no treatment for old scars i.e. you can't make them disappear.   In some cases, they reduce over time but never go away.

And once you are deported, it is very difficult to resubmit for anything.  The fact is simple :  If you had old TB then there is no reconsideration.   You should only try if you think the medical center made an error and even then, it can take years with no guarantee of a positive outcome.

@aramalonda what I know that only GCC country's have this rule. In Europe and USA, Canada - they don't have like this rule.

I had a TB treated 47 years ago and there is a permanent scar on x-ray. Can I get a resident UAE visa for AbuDhabi?

I was treated with pulmonary TB 37 years ago and now I have permanent scar but no symptoms. Can I get resident visa for AbuDhabi?

New visa, no.

@XTang hello sir i just want to ask about my friends medical, last February 2021 she got her 2nd employment visa in Ras alkhaima for the other company but that time her medical is unfit because they saw a spot on her Lungs X-ray they gave her 1 year visa so they told her to come back every 4 months for the follow up check up and she go there every 4 months and they said her lungs is cleared already but still she need to go back for follow up every 6 months. but last week she go for visa medical again in Dubai because she transfer to other company again but her xray is unfit again so they said she need to go to muhaisna medical centre to do the follow up check up, so if she will go back there for follow up and she is unfit again? they will automatically deport her?

Old visa no.

@XTang ow okay sir, so she don't need to worry? because she is afraid to go for follow up check up because she is thinking maybe if she will unfit again she will automatically deport.

I have been claimed unfit due to old tb scars.

My husband works in saudi Arabia and i cannot get my resident visa due to this scar issue. Kindly let me know if there is anything i can do about it. I have no plan to work there. Please guide🥺

I answered your other post.  And you are posting on the forums for a different country than the one you have a problem in.

@Maryam Khan95

I am currently in vocational school. I am a caregiver training program in Buea. I claim to find a job in Dubai by the grace of Allah or in Kuwait or in Saudi Arabia

i am planning to change my job in UAE.for new job they will do xray and blood test.

Last year i did some chest surgery and 2 ribs were removed.So now my chest xray won't be clear as it shows mash shadow which was installed to replace the ribs.

in this case they will pass my medical test ?

I have a TB clearance certificate from Qatar they said I have latent TB with a scar can they accept the certificate

Mild fibrotic stands in apical segments of bilateral upper lobe.

Has this problem been issued for UAE visa?

Anyone please help me.

hi my husband is already here in dubai holding tourist visa he wants to apply for work here in dubai but he has scar in the lungs he done last month his medical fitness in the philipines and get medical certificate and get it attested in uae embassy does medical certificate attested in the uae can help him pass the medical fitness here in dubai to find work.. can he submit that together while applying for visa

or if spouse visa only even if they find scar in his lungs can he get spouse visa.?

@XTang

Sir, my grace period from cancellation is only valid 18days as per written from MOL

they said i need to change visa or exit country. If i do that i will be considered new visa holder right? So my visa medical will be unfit if they see my scar?

@XTang because if only here in uae, and previously hired old visa holder

But if exit or change visa, new holder right?

Please kindly explain from your knowledge about this. thankyou

Change visa without exiting.  Not considered as new.