MacScot

Looks like I may need to get an ID card this year...

..though last paragraph says no.

Madam Medusa

funny, i just said exactly the same thing to monsieur medusa...reckon this is the real deal then...?

MM, xx

MacScot

I think it must be getting near the 'actual' time that we will need one...but I don't want to queue up at 4 am ever again ().

I'll try the online appointment system again and see what happens.

Euc-

Has been the case in RAK since December already

Jim Smith

I took my wife 6-8 weeks to Al Barsha and only 20 numbers before hers. Done and dusted in half an hour! She had her barcodes from some months before when they said had to attend with her husband but no mention of me this time.

Seems to have been sorted out by new man at the top?

Autonomy

oh bloody hell... I need to renew the car registration in a week or 2 and have not sorted out this card - how accurate is this report - will I be refused the car reg. without an ID card...?

Why the hell they didn't just tie the card to visa renewals and stagger the whole thing I'll never know....

admon

renewed car reg yesterday.

Nothing handed over apart from the usual registration card, insurance and cash.

Nothing else was requested.

MacScot

What time of day did you go to the Al Barsha office..and was that without an appointment?

lionheart

Where is Commander with his "we're British and therefore don't need one" policy when you need him?

MataHari

it's been postponed again for Dubai as well as AD...

also, for a few weeks getting a driving licence was a bit of a nuisance cause they would send your orgininal licence to AD and then courier it back to you with your new Dubai licence, but that has now been stopped as well and all is back to how it was before...

MataHari

you can go to Media City, building 14...they do a VIP there, costs a bit more (around 400 dhs?) but no queues...
only it's now got technical problems and will open again on Sunday May 16th...

Grace O Malley

ah i don't believe thats what he said, it was more along the lines of, it will be ages before the whole ID system is in place, and ah hello that was quite a while back and it still isnt in place

Autonomy

yeah I renewed registration at the weekend and no need for ID card, just same as usual...

MacScot

Thanks for that..it's nearby the marina. Shall do it next week.

lionheart

Let us all know how you got on. Today I am having to drive all the way to Abu Dhabi to collect my wife's bloody visa to visit the Greek Isles this summer, riots in Athens and volcanic ash permitting.