Indian Expat in UAE To Fly Home After 20 Years, $204,195 Fine Waived

Dubai: An Indian expat within the UAE will at final be in a plan to return dwelling after two decades after he modified into granted a waiver of nearly Dh 750,000 (USD 204,195) in overstay fines, in step with a media anecdote.

Thanavel Mathiazhaagan, 56, arrived within the UAE in 2000 through a recruitment agent on the promise of a job. The agent, who also took Mr Mathiazhaagan’s passport, later went lacking and he had to illegally preserve within the UAE to give for his family in India by doing fragment-time jobs, the Gulf Recordsdata reported. Mr Mathiazhaagan, who hails from Tamil Nadu, sought abet from two social workers within the UAE to return dwelling throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

The actual paperwork he possessed modified into his employment visa entry allow and a copy of the final online page of his passport, the anecdote stated. AK Mahadevan and Chandra Prakash, who helped Mr Mathiazhaagan rep an emergency certificate during the Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi, stated he had did now not rep identity clearance from India throughout the pandemic as there modified into a mismatch in his father’s name in paperwork again dwelling and that shown in his passport.

Emergency certificate is a one-formulation commute doc issued to Indians without a predominant passport, to facilitate their return dwelling, it stated. The duo stated they approached the Indian embassy and the native departments in Mr Mathiazhaagan’s village to rectify the error and task his paperwork, it stated.

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