Help!!! Working with tourist Visa in Egypt lead to trouble in future?

Help!!! Working with tourist visa in Egypt lead to trouble in future?

• Hi, i am new this but hope i am at the right place. I would highly appreciate if you can answer my below queries regarding my work visa. Thanks in advance. I am an Indian and working in one of the biggest engineering consultancies in Middle East. I joined here almost two and half years ago. Me and my wife both are engineers in different streams. But we are working here with Tourist Visas. I questioned the concerned in my company couple of times but they are saying that the quota is over. My wife is a pregnant and soon we are expecting a baby. Now the questions are as follows: 1. Working with Tourist Visa here in Egypt will lead to a problem now / in future? 2. Recently National Security in Egypt has somehow declined to extend my wife's tourist visa and the company is saying we can stay here illegally as they will pay the penalty when we leave to India. In fact they asked us to visit India and come back again through the entry which they will provide. But i said we cant travel since my wife is a pregnant thinking that they will issue work visas for us. If we stay illegally and pay penalty, will this a problem if i want to visit any other county in future or will Egypt put me in black list? 3. If i stay here illegally, getting birth certificate and passport to my baby will be difficult? And do i need passport for my baby to travel from Egypt to India?? I know working with tourist visa is not advisable, but without visa everything is good here and in addition, we are in the beginning of our careers. Dont know what to do? Please help!!! Thanks. ~Bhaskar

• Answer:

  Absolutely!!!You should go to the nearest police station and explain your situation!!You may have been able to slide under the radar before, but now with a child on the way, you'll have to get a birth certificate, which will definitely spell out trouble when you're in the country illegally. Come clean and take the heat. Actually I don't think you'll face a lotta trouble getting a work visa given you already have a job in Egypt. Good luck though.