What about the ginormous lines at Dubai consulate?
When i went for my passport renewal at the beginning of this year and as usual standing in the queue, I went to the policemen who were standing in front of the Egyptian consulate and overlooking the line in front of the Pakistani Consulate.
I asked them that you daily notice this line, is there any discussion going on between the consulate authorities and Dubai Police for solving the issue, keeping in view that this line is a security concern for both Police and consulate authorities. he said that as per the rules their job is to just make sure that no criminal act takes place like pick pocketing or anyone climbing the wall of the consulate or a brawl happening in the line. He asked me to complain with the consulate (he was smiling while saying this as he knows very well how the consulate is run). He said that even if the police will request the consulate authorities to arrange something to avoid the queue the consulate will reply that it is the consulate responsible on how to handle the crowd in the consulate and how the work is handled inside the consulate .
I went there at 6 -30 am and there was a long queue and only a certain number of tokens are released in one day (i don't remember exactly maybe it was around 400). some were in the queue since 4-30 am. When i was finally got inside the consulate compound after the being scanned by a hand held scanner and walking throught the metal detector at the gate (both of which were not working
) around 11 am i was comparing emirates ID process with Pakistani passport process
You can better tell how easy it is to get Emirates ID card which is far more advanced and having more features than the NICOP or Passport.
I have a NICOP card and computerized passport and when i went to renew the computerized passport, I saw a person taking finger prints be it new or renewal. I got my finger prints scanned and i asked the person taking the finger prints whether he is matching the finger prints or saving a copy of the finger print he said he is matching, i was smiling and thinking if it is really matching then in real world the whole process should be paperless and less time consuming as we should not be moving form one counter to another in total there were around 6 counters that i had to go to for the renewal of the Passport.
Also i had to pay some extra dirhams which was shown on the invoice/receipt as something relating to the parliament. The parliament which does not do anything good for the citizens.
Just imagine if a building or consulate comes up on the land between the Iraqi Consulate and the Pakistani consulate, how will the queue be managed
In short i will rate Pakistani consulate as one of the worst consulates (if not worst) in UAE if we take into consideration the revenue the consulate generates monthly.
Somebozo how is it in KSA?