132 residency law violators arrested - IN ONE DAY.

To cling your hope to an illegal solution has its price. Sometimes it's not going to come in an instant, but it will come sooner or later. When we found out that I couldn't bring our yaya to Dubai because of her birth certificate issues, I was devastated. But now, what a relief! I cannot imagine my panic.

We caught a police patrol car yesterday afternoon while on the way to the grocery. Two policemen came up to the building beside ours. We thought they must have been coming for their Iftar (:the evening meal after sunset to break the daily fast during Ramadan) prepared by their friends or something to that effect. But then, after reading the news today, maybe it was something else.

"Dubai: The Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) in one day caught 132 persons of various nationalities for violating the federal law for entry and residency of expatriates.

Major General Mohammad Al Merri, Director of DNRD, said the violators, most of them domestic helpers, were arrested during a series of simultaneous inspection campaigns on four houses in Bur Dubai.

The Investigation and Foreigners' Follow up Section had conducted the raid after receiving reliable tip-off about the whereabouts of those violators, he said."
- a repost from Gulfnews.com