Actually it’s a permit with 1 year validity which you pay and renew every year, but that doesn’t mean I can live here without purpose. If the person loses the job which they came here for, we need to leave the country the next day. We don’t have any residency or anything in the Middle East, just a permit to stay until that employment we have. No rights like a PR of any country as such. Also the family that stays on your work permit, every member is entitled to a certain fee every month. So technically we have to pay for the permit + a monthly fee to reside here as well until we have a job.