Spugsy

nope but got a local female lawyer who seems to know her stuff.

Should be getting passport back tomorrow for a few days to do a visa run.

anyone know if when you get towards Oman and you get an exit stamp I will pay my overstay fines there?

Ronnie Biggs

The advice I had was to pop down to immigration and sort out the overstay fines before making the visa run - makes things a lot easier on the day and less stressful. This was for AD though.

Wish you the best of luck with your case mate, it can't be nice having that hanging over everyone. Do you know any Emiratis that will give you a reference for the courts?

On the bright side, once you get it cleared up imagine the relief and the massive party you're going to have. This time though, maybe you should just smash up a Fiat Panda or Nissan Tilda instead - something small, relatively inoffensive and with no symbolic merit.

Spugsy

Got passportback today,need to give it back on Sunday so my mate can get his as he is flying home in 10 days.

Immigration, yeah thats not a bad idea - any idea where it is in DXB?

Blue Cat

next to Bur Dubai Police Station, you can walk it from your office

Spugsy

yup spoke to immigration, when I do my visa run I have to pay the overstay fine, 200 ding dongs for the first day and then 100 for every day - so will cost me AED 1,500 plus the AED 200 for the visa stamp AND my missus who is taking me has to get hers stamped so will pay for hers.

Gah.

Still at least I'll be legal then.

Blue Cat

better to be legal under the circumstances, no date yet?

Spugsy

so get passport back, went on visa run - and they wouldn;t let me out of the country to get a stamp until my case is finished.

So that means the overstay fines are mounting, could literally be 5k or so if this carries on.

Blue Cat

no way! that is absolutely mental! I know you can barter immigration fines down with the Immigration Office

lionheart

Sorry to be a horse's ass but did you honestly expect them to let you out of the country? This is a Police state you are dealing with.

flares

better buy Herve's book Spugsy...

Blue Cat

so why did they give him the passport then?

Spugsy

Forget it, this thread is boring even me now. Got the lawyer to get the prosecutor to get my case moved further to the front of the queue.

Will give you the final verdict when it happens.

Blue Cat

let me know the date by DM, thanks x

Eva

I always thought the pater of Spugs was Rick Stein.
Same hairline,same love of cooking,same Antipodean nirvana

Spugsy

heh I love him. When we came back from Oz once we sat next to his daughters best mate and she said he\s always shagging around and he's a bell-end.