Summing it up:
They pretended to accept my application and asked me to wait for a week. Told me they call. That’s a progress after being denied so many times.
No calls at all. I went there again to follow-up after 7 days. As expected, ho-hum…
It’s not ready. Wait again for a week. They never run out [...]

I am not supposed to be here today but I came anyway to blog work. Never mind the yucky feel of my wet shirt touching my skin and making me cold here inside the office — someone wants me to have pneumonia again by setting the a/c at 15C!! Idiots.
The story behind the wet shirt [...]

We might have our differences but I must admit, I will not be able to work without her. I can’t imagine any other person taking care of my daughter genuinely like she does so we were off to the Immigration Department this morning to change her visa, making her stay her as long as we’re here. 
According to the rules:
To obtain [...]

My permission to take the whole day off to attend to my family’s visa application process is granted but I am here in the office when I am supposed to be home getting some real rest. I had to get back to write something really good!!
Visas for hubby and kid finally approved!
After spending the whole [...]

I barely slept last night thinking of how would things go today at the Immigration Department. We got our papers at the Japanese Consulate with the very friendly Japanese lady wishing us good luck…so many people have been rejected by the Immigration Department for applications that don’t have attestation coming from the Foreign Affairs Department [...]

After lots of bureaucracy and red tape, I got my resident visa stamp in my passport today. Now I can breathe… a little.
Next step: apply for hubby and daughter’s resident permit before their visit visas expire in 10 days. The procedure is pretty straighforward. We go to the Immigration Department in Dubai, hand in our [...]

It’s been exactly 44 days since we arrived in Dubai. I entered on working visa, my trailing spouse and our daughter came with me with visit visa. Being Japanese nationals, they are entitled to automatic visa on arrival valid for 60 days only.
So, 60 minus 44 = 16 days left before their visit visa expires and we are starting to [...]