After nothing short of slaying goliath I finally managed to get it a few months back, after a 7 month ordeal. Since then its just been sitting in my wallet
The deadline has had a few false starts. I remember about a year ago, a colleague of mine couldn't register his car in Abu Dhabi because they insisted that he had to have an ID card, but they reversed that policy as soon as they brought it in.
That was really bad luck on his part that he wanted to register his car just when they decided to insist on ID's. He was in a panic.
I'm posting here partly because I want to see what my new avatar looks like.
After four months mine finally arrived only it was on someone else name, a few run arounds later and two months on I finally got one with my name and pic on !
While applying I was sneaking, went in made a sob story and the nice lady let me trough, with in 20mins I was done
ridiculous and waste of time. you can read the peoples comments on this issue on the local papers and all are annoyed and angry because it seems impossible to obtain this ID. a friend of mine due to the pressure they put people on last year qued several days for 5 hours just to get his.
no way in hell ill apply till they sort out their issues. (or till I get the fines)