About a month ago, yes, this post was hanged up since long. I had been to Indian Passport Centre in Karama. It took me few minutes to search for the Indian Visa and Passport Centre in Karama. There is a “big” A4 sized paper printout pasted on the entry door of the building saying that the centre is at 3rd floor, flat no 302. As advertised, it should be 301, so again confusion. Then, at 301, there is a small board saying come from 302.

There was not much rush at the counter. There, I got into a fix again, I forgot to take xerox of a paper from the passport. I requested the centre officials to give me a xerox copy, they quickly said that the xeroxing machine is not working. I told them, if I can get a paper faxed so I need to have xerox copy, now the fax machine is also not working. So I enquired where to get xerox from? They said go down and SEARCH. Now I have to google down to find a xerox machine, and I need it quick, dont want to waste the time for that stuff.

Luckily, I found an office besides the centre and went inside. I requested them to give me a xerox copy of just one page, and they happily did so, and even laughed at the Indian Centre. That made me understand, that I was not the first one. The lady refused to accept money for doing copy of the page.

I hope Indian centre wakes up and gets it infrastructure working.