What do you do to a guy who lived most of his life in Bahrain, 36 years in fact, has gone a few years ago back to his original country and brought back not one, not two, but three wives and countless children with him, carried on living in this fair isle running a welding workshop in one of the busiest cities in Bahrain… and all of this time illegally?
Yes, you heard it right: the guy lived amongst us for 36 years without government sanction. A lot of us used his services, interacted with him, talked and argued with him, bartered with him and all that good stuff for years, but the guy didn’t have a proper visa and not one authority figure caught him out! Not only that, the guy leaves and comes back with a bus-load of relatives, gets into the country again and carries on working for a further eight years and only gets nabbed when he goes and complains that his landlord wants to increase his rent!
If a guy is this tenacious and this good and working the system, not only should we give him, his wives and their brood passports, heck, we should give the guy a permanent seat in parliament! He’ll probably do an awful lot better than the morons who make it a habit to discuss things with their fists.
Tomorrow, by my reckoning, we will have 100 days left to boot this parliament out, but a little birdie tells me that it might even be sooner than that.
I can’t wait!
In the mean time; however, leave the guy alone.. after 36 years, he’s more Bahraini than a whole lot of our newly naturalized, and very welcome, citizens.
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Man that guy’s probably more Bahraini then I am! 36 years??? Ridiculous! — Moclippa Demands a Permit!
But then again… three wives?
They should give him a permit under the condition that the guy doesnt add to that brood anymore hehehe
where is he originally from?
India
Come on guys, give him a break. He was getting away from his three mothers in law . . . 🙂
So the jokes we hear about Indians are true after all. The best thing is he was hoping for a Bahraini Passport ,guess nobody told him that his 36 years doesn’t count.
Sorry but couldn’t resist, you can start bashing now.
I somehow don’t think that getting a passport was that high on his priority list. The guy probably just wanted to earn enough to send to his family and to get by. Had he thought of the passport route, he would have legalised his stay.
In other countries, the UK I think, if one is employed full time for 4 years then that person is eligeable for a British passport. The rationale is if the country needed that person’s labour that much to justify a work permit for that long, then give that person a passport as his contribution would have been deemed required by the country.
Just imagine if that rule was applied in any of the Gulf’s countries. Particularly Dubai. Especially as citizenship carries duties and responsibilities on both the citizen and the government, as in getting involved in the political machine and representation…
That’s probably why the GCC is discussing establishing a law that a foreigner can only stay in the country for 6 years continuously. If that is ever implemented, we can forget about allowing foreigners buying property or establishing businesses… that would be a huge impact on the economy.
So how are these governments going to get around these problems?
Going back to our friend, as he has been living in this country for 36 years and he was not picked up by any of the government organisations for that long, we should deem his stay legal, to all intents and purposes.
Treat him as a “bidoun” (stateless) and give him the passport!