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> Just Spending time in the Dubai airport is a fascinating experience if you get the change. It depends on what you mean by fascinating. I was stuck in a limb

by jq-r 3y ago

> Just Spending time in the Dubai airport is a fascinating experience if you get the change. It depends on what you mean by fascinating. I was stuck in a limbo because on arrival they've lost my visa (which takes days to process). They didn't even wanted to talk to me because my visa wasn't in a pile of other visas and for those people that was the end of it. I wasn't let in into the country, and I couldn't board the plane to go back home. For what they were concerned, I could have died there in front of the counter and they wouldn't even bat an eye. It took them close to 10 hours to relent to my ever increasing desparate pleadings and second or third shift person to have a look at the other pile of visas on the same desk. They've found it after less than a minute of search, and threw it at me like I'm a trash bin. Needless to say I'm never going to Dubai ever again. I've travelled all over the world, but I've never seen or experienced complete disdan and disrespect for other people before and since then.

csomar 3y ago
Was this recent? I think they have mostly moved to eVisas now. That being said, what you described is a typical experience in a foreign country immigration lane. I am not saying it is right or wrong ( of course it is wrong!) but overall the uae is still ahead of many other countries when it comes to accessibility.
- jq-r 3y ago
  It was about 5 to 7 years ago. Time does fly! Its not a typical experience in my view. I've definitely seen and experienced crazy stuff over the years in the airports. But what was perfectly clear to me is that they (native people working there) don't see you as an equal. Its maybe a bit hard to explain. I wouldn't go as far as to say that they don't really see you as a person at all, but I've never experienced this before and after. And this is not something I've seen on myself only, I've seen this happen on non-EU/US immigration lanes and it was disturbing and depressing. Maybe I'm just too sensitive to that.

by jq-r 3y ago

csomar 3y ago

Was this recent? I think they have mostly moved to eVisas now. That being said, what you described is a typical experience in a foreign country immigration lane. I am not saying it is right or wrong ( of course it is wrong!) but overall the uae is still ahead of many other countries when it comes to accessibility.

jq-r 3y ago
It was about 5 to 7 years ago. Time does fly! Its not a typical experience in my view. I've definitely seen and experienced crazy stuff over the years in the airports. But what was perfectly clear to me is that they (native people working there) don't see you as an equal. Its maybe a bit hard to explain. I wouldn't go as far as to say that they don't really see you as a person at all, but I've never experienced this before and after. And this is not something I've seen on myself only, I've seen this happen on non-EU/US immigration lanes and it was disturbing and depressing. Maybe I'm just too sensitive to that.