Good luck finding school places.
6 months in country before you can sponsor your family and get their RP's. Kids cannot get a school place without an RP, whilst many schools have been relaxed about this the SEC are now clamping down hard and some schools have been ejecting pupils without RP's.
Even if you get over the 6 month hurdle there is a waiting list of 2 years+ for places at the decent expat schools.
In addition the SEC has recently introduced a rule whereby kids can only enter or change schools at the start of the school year and you'll have to be very lucky to find places.
Even worse, if you happen to be Indian you can forget about bringing your family (no matter what your income is), very recently the government has put a block on family visas for Indians (I'm guessing other nationalities too).
In essence Qatar wants to develop and to do that it needs an ever increasing expat workforce. What they are not so keen on is what has been referred to as 'incidental population increase'.
I.E. families.
Last edited by Strangeways Southpaw; 11th Feb 2014 at 11:19.
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