Permanent Driving Licenses

We decided to see what we could do about getting our permanent driving licenses as now we have the residence permits and both of our temporary licences had expired. Rather than go along and try to take care of the process ourselves we thought we would give Mr Mustafa (the licensing guy who had help those from AJA with the temporary ones) a call and see if he could help or not.

We got the photocopies ready that we knew were required and the QAR200 each that we knew he charged. Then Kerry gave him a call, which ended in his location getting lost in translation, but he said he would come to us instead… he ended up on our doorstep to collect everything within an hour. Not the easiest man to understand, after some confusion we worked out that because Kerry is my sponsor she had to provide a letter stating it was ok for me to have a license… this letter involved her signing at the bottom of one of the blank photocopied pages and him taking that away to type the letter in Arabic (you seem to put a lot of faith into the people who type stuff in Arabic for you, but what else are you going to do). He also asked for another QAR100 to cover the extra worked involved with mine (apparently)…

At about 6:30pm (he did say something about 6-7pm) he turned up on our doorstep once again with a big smile and handshake… as well as the documents and photos that weren’t needed… and most importantly our licenses! Don’t actually know how he did this as the license section is only open at certain times and he technically shouldn’t have been able to get mine until the following day.

All a bit strange and really don’t know what these people do, or how they do it… but it would seem that once you know what to do and who to do it through, you can do it for a lot of people for a fee!