Dubai: Man jailed for using forged document to renew son's residency visa

A 45-year-old Asian has been sentenced to imprisonment by the Dubai Criminal Court for forging a photocopy of a lease contract to renew his son's visa.

According to police and public prosecution investigations, the accused denied the charges against him, and instead argued that hat he had hired a person to apply for the renewal of his son’s residency visa.

He had provided the person his son's original passport, a photocopy of his identity card and other documents along with an amount of Dh600.

The accused said that he did not know about a copy of the forged contract registration document, which was submitted and he was unaware that it was forged.

Commenting on the visa application process, he added that he knew that a rental contract was one of the papers required to renew a residence visa, adding that he was a Sharjah-based resident contrary to what was written in the forged contract (Ajman). He claimed to not know why a forged contract -- attributed to government departments in Ajman -- was submitted by the person he had hired.

The convicted man will be deported after serving his prison term.