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5 available 5 • View allRemoving a UAE ban after recovery from TB medical condition
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Q: I have visa ban in the UAE due to TB during my medical fitness test.
So, I Left the UAE one year before and now after treatment, I'm ok with the problem but I'm having TB scars.
Is it possible to lift my ban and apply for a new visa?
If possible, please guide me.

Apr 23, 2018
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The impact of old TB scars on issuing a work visa
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Q: Dear Mr ElKhatib,
I am an assistant professor working currently in the United Kingdom. I suffered pulmonary TB 15 years ago (2003) and received all necessary medications.
I have some scars in my right lung; however, I worked before in the USA, Germany, Japan, and other countries.
Now, I have an offer from a university in Abu Dhabi but still worry about accepting it because I will resign from my job in the UK.
Do these scars make me unfit? Is there any solution for this problem?
Many thanks

Oct 21, 2018
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Possibility of lifting a medical ban for old TB scars
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Q: Hi Ms Rajasree,
I need to know if it is possible to lift an employment ban due to old TB scars which are totally inactive.
The person got the ban in the year 2012 and had to leave after an eye scan.
Appreciate your assistance

May 20, 2019
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Proving that lung scars are not related to TB after being banned
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Q: Hi,
I went to the UAE in 2019 on a work visa along with my husband. During my medical fitness, they found scars on my lungs. I got a Quantiferon gold test done privately, however they didn't give me a chance to discuss and I was asked to leave the country within a month's time post a retina scan.
Considering that I couldn't stay in Dubai and didn't have a job in hand because my employer was insisting on leaving UAE in 4-5 days else their trade license could get revoked, I came back and re-settled in my home country India. I came back to India and got all my tests done.
I've never had TB - active or inactive. The lung scars are due to a completely unrelated condition called Sarcoidosis which is a non-communicable, auto-immune disease.
I am getting now job offers from Dubai again. If I want to apply again and try and apply for a work visa again, would the process be given that there has also been a rejection once?

Jul 11, 2021
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Returning to the UAE after finding an old TB in the medical fitness test
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Q: Hi,
Yesterday, I got my medical result. It shows an old TB so they made the result unfit. I am still in the UAE now. If I depart from the UAE, how can I come again?
Is it possible to get a visit visa or an employment visa?
Or if I got treatment in India and get cleared, shall I come back?

Oct 17, 2021
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