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New centre to aid Indian amnesty seekers
The Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) on Thursday opened one of its temporary centres at the Our Own English High School, Dubai, in a move that will facilitate Indian amnesty seekers.
- By Sunita Menon, Staff Reporter
- Published: 14:33 July 19, 2007
- Image Credit: Sunita Menon/Gulf News
- Brig Mohammed Al Marri of Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department announces the opening of the new counters at the Our Own English High School.
Dubai: The Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) on Thursday opened one of its temporary centres at the Our Own English High School, Dubai, on the Oud Mehta Road, in a move that will facilitate Indian amnesty seekers.
Indian labourers will no longer have to travel all the way to the DNRD located in Al Quoz which is open to all nationalities. The temporary DNRD centre is located at a walking distance from the Indian High School where the Indian consulate has set up a centre to issue emergency certificate for Indian amnesty seekers.
The centre will operate from 7.30am to 4pm and will remain open until August 25.
The new initiative is a part of the ongoing cooperation between the Indian consulate in Dubai and the DNRD and comes at a time when the number of Indian amnesty seekers has increased considerably in the past few weeks.
An Indian labourer who expressed his relief at the opening of the temporary DNRD centre at the school said: “Now we need not travel to Jumeira and wait for our turn to get our iris scan and finger printing completed. The rush of people at the DNRD in Jumeira is quite scary.''
Brigadier Mohammad Ahmad Al Marri, director, DNRD, said that all facilities concerning finger printing and iris scan have been installed at the school.
“We are planning to do the same in Sharjah with the cooperation of the Sharjah Naturalisation and Residency Department,'' said Venu Rajamony, Indian consul general.
The Consulate General of India has received a number of complaints from Indian nationals seeking to avail of the amnesty, that employers are refusing to return the passports which are in their custody.
The Consulate had reiterated the fact that all Indian passports are property of the Government of India and should be in the custody of the holder or in the custody of agencies of Indian Government. The Consulate has appealed to all employers holding Indian passports to return them to their employees or to the Consulate immediately.
As of July 12th, 2007, the Consulate has received 20490 applications for emergency certificates (ECs). It has processed 8881 ECs.
Of the 27,000 passports received from the immigration authorities, the Consulate has distributed 6203 passports to the public.
Since the amnesty period is coming to an end in the first week of September, the Consulate is reducing the delivery time for issuance of ECs from 20 days to five working days. The Consulate has appealed to the amnesty seekers to apply for ECs before July 31 so that they would have sufficient time for processing their cases.
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