Expatriates deported from the
UAE cannot return to the country, unless they have a judicial or administrative
ruling or special permission from the Ministry of Interior.
This is in accordance with a
new legal principle, issued by the Dubai Court of Cassation. A visit visa or a
residence permit issued by the General Department for Residency and Foreigners
Affairs (DGDRFA) stands void if there is no permission of the Interior
Minister, the court ruled.
The principles were issued
when the court considered the appeal of a foreign woman, who was fined Dh10,000
and was deported.
The Dubai Public Prosecution
referred the woman for trial as she entered the UAE without the permission of
the Interior Minister.
The Court of First Instance
heard the case and fined her Dh10,000 to be followed by deportation. But the
woman took the case to the Appeals Court, which upheld the ruling.
Unsatisfied by the two
verdicts, she then moved the Court of Cassation, which issued the above
principles.
The woman’s argument was that
she had a residence visa and is sponsored by her Emirati husband.
But the Court of Cassation
rejected her clarifications stating that Interior Ministry’s data as well as
her fingerprints confirm the fact that she had been previously deported from
the UAE under charges of prostitution. And that she later returned on a visit
visa and then changed status to residence visa under the sponsorship of her
husband. This, the court ruled, is in violation of the legal rule as well as
the Interior Minister's decision.
The Court of Cassation based
its ruling on Federal Law No. 6 of 1973, as amended by Law No. 13 of 1996 on
entry and residence of foreigners.
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