I have this wonderful talent for picking the longest queue in the airport. Leaving was never an issue but coming back I would usually wait an hour in the immigration queue. Definitely not a talent you would want. One day though I learned just how easy it was to get an E-Gate Card. Fifteen minutes and AED320 later I was the proud, and very much relieved, owner of an E-Gate Card.
What is an E-Gate Card you ask? It allows UAE visitors and residents to enter Dubai and Abu Dhabi at the airport without having to wait in long passport queues by presenting the card and your fingerprint at the E-Gate reader or scanning machines at immigration and passport control departing from and arriving in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Basically this card is a little miracle worker.
Where can you get one? I got mine in Terminal 1, take the escalator up to the first floor by the Emirates NDB money exchange, the E-Gate Card will be on the left. The woman there was super friendly (and it was 01h00 in the morning). She took my passport, and one passport sized picture though apparently they can also take your picture, you will then be sent down to the Emirates NBD to pay for the E-Gate Card and when you get back up with your receipt your E-Gate card is ready to go. Easy like that and valid for two years.
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