Jobless soon able to extent visa?

Now this is good news for some expatriates. As I wrote before, the permission to stay in the UAE has traditionally been linked to your job.

If you lose your job, you had to leave the country within four weeks.

This may be history soon, though. According to a law currently awaiting approval, people who are made redundant could be allowed to stay in the country for up to six months. A minister said the financial crisis had "created a need for more regulatory flexibility".

Now we just have to see if that need results in an approved law.