UAE employer forges staff's signature to cancel Dubai visa

An employer allegedly forged the signature of his worker on a visa cancellation application and then submitted an absconding notification against the worker to the Ministry of Labour, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.
 
IF, 27, wanted to quit his job as a salesman in a shop owned by SM, 36, Emirati.
 
“I submitted my resignation to my employer and asked him to cancel my visa but he refused. I repeated my request to cancel my visa but in vain. After some time, I learnt that SM had cancelled my visa without my knowledge and that he had lodged an absconding notification against me with the Labour Ministry.

Police arrested me following the abscond notification. I defended myself, saying that I did not abscond and that I did never signed on visa cancellation application,” the salesman told police.
 
The salesman was made to lodge a forgery compliant against the employer.
 
The employer admitted that he had cancelled the visa of the salesman without the latter’s knowledge and that he has written the name in the field for sponsor’s signature in Arabic and English.
 
Criminal Evidences reported that the worker’s name written in the sponsor’s signature field on the application form of the Ministry of Labour was written by the employer and not the worker.

The court will reconvene on June 8.

 

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