{"id":32537,"date":"2018-05-30T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=32537"},"modified":"2018-05-30T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T11:49:39","slug":"qatar-council-okays-draft-law-granting-permanent-residency-to-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/qatar-council-okays-draft-law-granting-permanent-residency-to-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar council okays draft law granting permanent residency to foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar has moved closer to granting permanent residency to foreigners after its senior legislative body approved a draft law, first announced in the wake of the ongoing Gulf crisis.<\/p>\n<p>State media reported the Shura Council agreed on Monday to back a law which would grant residency to expatriates who provide valuable services as well as to the children of Qatari women married to non-Qataris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Advisory Council approved a draft law on permanent residency,\u201d the Qatar News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent residents would be allowed to have free state education, healthcare and be given the right to own property.<\/p>\n<p>It is thought to be the first such law proposed by one of the energy-rich Gulf states.<\/p>\n<p>It was first announced last August just two months after Qatar was boycotted by neighbouring former allies in a bitter diplomatic dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Like other nations in the region, Qatar relies massively on foreign labour.<\/p>\n<p>Its current population of 2.71 million, a record, is made up of almost 90% non-nationals, many helping the country prepare to host the 2022 World Cup<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar has moved closer to granting permanent residency to foreigners after its senior legislative body approved a draft law, first announced in the wake of the ongoing Gulf crisis. State media reported the Shura Council agreed on Monday to back a law which would grant residency to expatriates who provide valuable services as well as [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32539,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32537\/revisions\/32539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}