Yeah, this is not normal. Now before you can get a low-skilled worker visa you have to sit through an hour long lecture explaining your rights, they tell you over and over to not let anyone take your passport and who to call if someone does.

These countries have been modernizing so fast that it’s really pointless to talk about how things were a couple of years ago.

2 years ago if someone said that this would happen people would probably have laughed at you https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/courts/2021/11/28/uaes-n...