Millhouse

So... she she gets into a fight, placed under house arrest but somehow managed to get out of dubai with a new passport (which wouldn't have had an entry stamp in?)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ths-Dubai.html

silly girl.

scot47

Airhead. UAE is full of them !

Me 2.0

Gavtek

Perhaps through eGate with Emirates ID or something like that?

scrubbedexpat141

She must have watermelon sized balls to even try it. I'm impressed.

DXBtoDOH

Maybe she told immigration she'd lost her old passport and it was a new one and that was why she had no entry stamp?

It does illustrate a potential failure in the immigration system here. I'm sure there's more to the story. After all, it's Daily Mail.

But the girl and her friends were a********.

scrubbedexpat141

Her Dad pleading with the victim to drop charges and saying she's only a kid etc.

The bloke was left with a broken nose and was asleep when this group decided to start dicking around. Even if you do nothing, you're part of it and responsible.

jam25mack

That doesn't fly. Several years ago I misplaced my passport. Hadn't been out of the country nearly a year and couldn't find it. Went to apply for a new one at the embassy (when they still did that) but they said I needed a Police letter. Went to the Police and they made me go round and get stamps from the court, immigration etc to say they didn't have it before they would issue a letter for the embassy. Did all that and put in the application only to find my passport a few days later. Then when I was travelling I tried to use my new passport and despite immigration saying I didn't need a physical stamp they wouldn't let me out. I had to get a taxi home to get the old one quick smart. Just to add insult to injury I'd already checked in my bag (with my house keys in it) so I also had to break into my villa. Got back in time and flashed the passport with the old visa / stamp (that had been reported stolen) and all was good in the world....

I get that she could 'technically' use egate but surely if she had a case against her then she would be on the system of death and it would flag her up. Fair do's tho for giving it a crack. That's some massive swingers right there!

Millhouse

scrubbedexpat141

what if she used a friends passport?

I'm pretty sure the egate fingerprint thing is a sham. I rarely use the finger they ask for and it's never not worked.

Millhouse

possibly - and then that friend loses hers and gets a new one - then they notice she already left... maybe.

risky, that would be quite a friend to take that chance.

Anyway, the girl is a twat. along with her friends.

DXBtoDOH

I'm jealous of you. My UAE e-gate never worked with my fingerprints and I always had to go to the man in the desk.

Then when I moved to Qatar and got an e-gate, guess what? They can't register me for e-gate because the machine can't read my fingerprints. Eh? Immigration says there's nothing wrong with my passport, there's no hold or block on me, I have multiple exit visa and all that, but the scanning machine still refuses to read my fingerprints.

Dunno why. One of the mysteries of life.

Millhouse

scrubbedexpat141

Very strange. I do it on purpose now, normally asks for thumb or right index and I always use the opposite hand or a little finger. Works.

I'm that boring my fingerprints are all the same.

DXBtoDOH

I used to think maybe it had to do with all the chlorine from swimming laps daily and the anti-chlorine lotion I use in the shower afterwards.

Does that mean I have a potential career as an international jewellery burglar if no one can read my fingerprints?