On May 10, 2011, Filipina nurse Marie shelled out 25,000 pesos (Dh2,174) to agents of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in Ninoy Aquino International Airport so she could fly back to Dubai on a visit visa.
Money changed hands outside the airport and she was told to join a queue at a passport counter whose staff did not ask her any questions. A week before, she had been offloaded on the pretext of being a potential human trafficking victim, though Marie had already worked in a Dubai clinic for seven years before she quit her job and went home.
“I was just desperate to leave, because it’s a big mess when you are offloaded,” she said. “One of the people in my batch paid 37,000 pesos (Dh3,217)… the officer who stamped our passport hid his name tag.”
All passengers on visit visas from Manila to Dubai who boarded the Cathay Pacific flight at 6pm that day via Hong Kong paid grease money, she said.
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