While ascertaining that the Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) is not imposing the ban upon cancellation for the qualified people and other categories, in accordance with the instructions of General Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Crown Prince and UAE Minister of Defence, Colonel Saeed Mattar bin Bleilah, Director of DNRD said that a suggestion to waive the ban system has been laid across the table and is being discussed quietly and thoroughly from all aspects "without rushing things."

Replying to a Khaleej Times question with regard rumours on the re-introduction of the ban in Dubai upon cancelling the employment visas of qualified people, Col. bin Bleilah stressed that this was not true and that the instructions of Gen. Shaikh Mohammed with this regard are being followed strictly. "Slamming an entry ban has become an uncivilised practice and it definitely needs to be revised and reconsidered," the Director of DNRD stressed.

He hailed the order of the President, His Highness Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to scrap the exit rule for the holders of visit visas who want to adjust their legal status from visitors to employees in this country. "The accident of the Iranian plane that had recently crashed in Sharjah and killed many passengers who were returning from Kish where they existed to change their visas has opened the file of the ban system. This system is leading to the loss of many qualified expatriate professionals who are forced to leave the country where they have acquired their experience over the years," Col. bin Bleilah said.

Highlighting another disadvantage of the ban, he said that it has been ill-used by many companies and establishments which used it as a means for exploiting their employees and for maintaining the upper hand in deciding the future of their stay in the country and of their career prospects.

"These disadvantages have prompted the Directorate General for Naturalisation and Residency at the Ministry of Interior to reconsider the ban regulation so that it does not affect the rights of companies in protecting their interests as well as the rights of the employees and at the same time ensuring that the country will not loose some of the useful qualified cadres," Col. bin Bleilah said.