The "yes, you can catch your flight" permit

Well we did find out that Kerry could come to the airport with me the day before I was flying out to sign something, which I assume was an Exit Permit. So after school today we headed out to Doha International to see what we could do!

Firstly went to the departures area to discover that most of it was a “passengers only” area, so went to the information counter who sent us on to the Qatar Airways room, who then sent us to the arrivals lounge… same building but out the door, up the road a little, and then in another door. In the arrivals terminal we found a sign that said “Immigration’, so followed that upstairs to a closed door with an Arabic sign above it. We did get some information from someone helpful in another office though who told us the immigration office was only open until 2pm, but there was another immigration office next to the airport and if we couldn't come back at 7:30am in the morning, they could help us because they are open 24 hours.

So we got back in the car, left the airport and went down the road to the first big white building (which actually IS right next to the airport, but not very well signed and quite easy to miss). After lining up the guy behind the counter filled in the form which Kerry then signed and gave back a little printed sheet of paper… we can only assume this was the Exit Permit!

Not really that much of a hassle to be honest IF we had been told that was all we needed to do when we asked, but by now we are getting accustom to receiving partly correct information and then making the rest up as we go… this seems to end in the correct result most of the time!