u/Hessa_974

Good morning ,
Hope everyone is doing well.

Quick question I’m a British citizen currently in Qatar and wanted to extend my stay. I tried to extend my stay via moi website but its asking me for health insurance…

Has anyone extended their stay without insurance and if so how?

Thank you and wish you a great day ahead ❤️

Hi guys,
Hope everyone is safe n well.

Quick question, I use to be a resident in Qatar but now back home residing back home in the uk. I will be visiting Doha soon and would like to use my friend’s car to get around so I have a few questions, first can I drive while I have both a valid Qatari and uk drivers licence (no QID, tourist) and second can I drive my friend’s vehicle?

Ive encountered conflicting info online where some sites state that I need an international driving permit while others state that I don’t and can drive without a IDP for 7 days.

And can I get an IDP while I’m in Doha?

Would appreciate it if someone can give me the correct info pls 🙏🏼

Thank you 🙏🏼❤️

Hi guys,
Hope everyone is safe n well.

Quick question, I use to be a resident in Qatar but now back home residing back home in the uk. I will be visiting Doha soon and would like to use my friend’s car to get around so I have a few questions, first can I drive while I have both a valid Qatari and uk drivers licence (no QID, tourist) and second can I drive my friend’s car?

Ive encountered conflicting info online where some sites state that I need an international driving permit while others state that I don’t and can drive without a IDP for 7 days.

Would appreciate it if someone can give me the correct info pls 🙏🏼

Thank you 🙏🏼❤️

Hello everyone,
I hope you are well safe and well.

I would really appreciate it if you can take the time to read my post and kindly advise me especially if you are Bengal owners. I will try and keep this as brief as I can…

I was living in the ME for the past 15 years doing a lot of cat rescue work.

A few years ago I found a bengal ( it was in such a bad state that I couldn’t even tell it was a bengal)

I tried to get him rehomed but it was impossible and hardly any animal rescue centres. So I tried social media and I had a lot of interest but I was told to be careful as alot of people would use him for breeding so I had him fixed but then no one wanted him. You can literally find special breed cats on every corner, people get kittens to entertain their kids and then dump them when they get older or expats dump them when they have pay for their return to their home country etc etc so it’s a major issue.

I decided to keep Benji, I was living in an apartment and I did my best to accommodate him but and even got a male kitten (stray) as a friend for him. They got on fine but a year later Benji started spraying everywhere and again I tried to play with him more, more toys etc etc nothing worked. I even had him checked several times and was told that it’s a behavioural issue…

A few month ago I lost my job and had to return back home to the uk. (Temporarily) I live in a very small house with a small garden and It’s been very stressful time so he has still been spraying….. he is very loving cat, fun and active but he seems very unhappy and given my currently situation I am unable to give him the life he once had (although I know for such a breed cat that what I as doing is ok as per a standard cat but not him I still tried).

The issue is I’m very attached to him, I don’t want to let him go but a friend recommend that I have him rehomed through proper cat recuses where they do vetting etc so that he may have a chance to find a loving home that can provide him what he needs.

I don’t know what is the right thing to do, I see he gal owners with huge gardens that spend hours and hours playing and investing time and money which I currently don’t have.

Am I being selfish by keeping him when I can’t given the care he needs? I mean I tried my best, my last apartment was literally a cat house… but still he always seemed unhappy … he would pee everywhere, being howling excessively or he would sit in a weird way where he seemed like he was stressed …

I will be moving soon to an apartment so yes I can get cat tress, toys and give him time but is that really enough?

I want to do right by him, I’m hoping that if I rehome him through these cat rescuers that they would do the proper vetting of the new adopters and he could have the life he deserves and the things he needs.

Please could you as Bengal owners advise me? Because at first I was cleaning up after him and trying my vets to play with him but his stopped responding to play time… he just sits there looking miserable or his just going round and around not happy with anything…

I don’t know what to do and now it’s impacting my mental health and my behaviour towards him. If I use the cat rescuers to rehome him I’ll never ever see him again or know how he really is and that thought kills me to the core… but at the same time what more can I possibly do for him??????

If you have any advise I’d appreciate it, if you have any questions that you want to ask to help me get the best advise I’d be more than happy to answer … pls I just need to know what is the right thing to do …

Thank you ❤️

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to ask if any expats have purchased a property in Qatar which qualifies them for an RP. Does anyone know how long does it for process and how long before we can get the rp?

I’m in a really bad situation and my circumstances are getting worse and worse so I would appreciate any information that you can share.

Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Hello,

Does anyone know how long does the ministry of justice and moi take to process application for RP of expats who have purchased a property in Qatar? Or what the process involves ?

Would appreciate any information anyone may have and could share.

Thank you

Hello,

Just trying my luck here as I am desperate for help and wanted to know if anyone works in the ministry of justice?

If so I’d appreciate if you could pls dm.

Thank you

Hello,

Asking for a friend. She has purchased a property in qatar and had her RP application sent to MOI a couple of days back.

What she would like to know is roughly how long does it normally take for the application to be processed n approved?

She knows at some point she will have to enter qatar on a different visa related to her property to complete the RP process e.g biometrics etc but for now she wants to visit so the main question is

Can she visit qatar on a tourist? while waiting for the outcome of her application? And it shouldn’t impact her RP application right?

Would appreciate it if anyone can share solid information regarding this 🙏🏼

Thank you

Salaam, I hope everyone is well.

I really need some advise as I literally have no one to turn to.

It’s just me and my mother, she’s suffering from a very bad and rare illness and she doesn’t have long left so it was her wish to see me get married off and so she told me to find someone that I like.

I found a guy who was religious, family oriented, wasn’t messing around, always at work or at home with his family…

We started to like each other and from day one I told him that please I’m trying to be a practising Muslim women and I’m not looking to mess around so please don’t waste my time or play around with me. He said he wasn’t into this sort of stuff and was seriously looking to settle down.

Because I don’t have anyone I wanted to get to know him properly and we discussed getting married and that he would submit the marriage paper work to his government for approval (his from the gcc and this is a must) a year into this commitment/relationship I started to get really bad thoughts and feelings so I decided to look through his phone and I found hidden away thousands of disgusting videos, pictures and chats with other women.

He literally used every app you can think for this stuff, when I confronted him at first he was like “so” then he saw my reaction because I lost it, I literally when insane and then he started apologising. We fought over this for a week non stop and eventually he said his sincerely sorry and that it meant nothing and so he deleted everything.

He said he is truly repenting and wants to right his wrong and so like an idiot I decided to believe him and give him a chance.

At first he would listen and do almost everything right to reassure me and to make things ok between us but throughout this time I told him that I just can’t trust him, I’m having nightmares of those things that I saw, I started to have personal insecurities about myself, I literally aged so badly over 6months since the time I found out. My mentally health became so bad that I started to self h…. And I just wanted to know why?

You see I wasn’t wearing the hijab at the time and he would tell me to wear it, he wouldn’t like me wising the most basic of make up or if for fun I used a filter he would belittle me saying I’m bad and have no shame because I wear make up and use filters for other men. I joked a few times about getting Botox or surgeries and he said it’s disgusting and that he doesn’t want a partner like that but the women he was talking to, saving their pictures or liking etc etc all had faces full of make up, filters, big assets, Botox, etc etc he was even speaking to girls who in public and with families would be completely covered up but o while talking to him would send him indecent pictures and videos … you can not imagine the things I saw…

So doing a fraction of the things that those women were was considered wrong e.g. make up but then they did it he liked it, he literally told me that he liked how they looked so I asked him why can’t I do that if I wanted to? He wouldn’t have an answer.

I’m meant to be getting Nikkah done with him next month, still not over what he has done and what’s worse is now he says to me “when are you gonna get over it?” “It was nothing, it’s so minor” “I can’t keep listening to the past, tell me a time and exact time that you will get over it”

Instead of helping me feel better his not blaming me for feeling the way I am because it was nothing, it’s because of me feeling this way that he is now distant.

He said I still want to right my wrongs and want to go ahead with marrying you … I told him that he destroyed me once when he cheated and not to hurt me again because although he will marry me but his not giving me my rights as a women or a future wife to be.
He doesn’t call, just even check up on me… never has a loving conversation or even shows any interest in me. He can go days and days without talking to me, I feel like it’s very one sided commitment while he thinks his doing his part by marrying me and promising not to cheat on me but I’ve told him that I as a women deserve a loving partner, someone who is interested in me, he wants to talk to me or even misses me…. The women he was talking to would send him pictures and videos every day and all indecent and he had a interest in talking to them but although now he wants to right his wrongs he thinks that what he is doing for me is enough. I’ve never been asked for a picture or a video call or hardly get told I look like or anything …

The problem is that I’ve always told my mother and the Nikkah is soon, plus I’ve invested all my money that I had into buying a property with him in his home country.

I’m not making this sound dramatic but my mother would literally die if she found any of this or if the nikkah didn’t go through… she is so happy that I’m settling down and that he duas have been answered and that I’ve found a decent man. Please can anyone advise me as to what to do? I don’t own a home in the uk or have any family or friends other than my mother. I have no where to turn to … sometimes I feel like giving in and accepting what he is putting me though although my heart wants to fight it because I know I’m a good women, thank god I haven’t done half of this stuff and i certainly am not a hypocrite pretending to be a good Muslim while living a double life .

If you saw the pictures, videos and chats and then met the guy you wouldn’t believe that he could do such things .. or how low he and these women could go and most of them were Muslim women. My life is destroyed, my trust and out look on life and people is destroyed.

I’m sorry to say but these people who act the most religious are often the worst ones… please someone help me

Hi guys,
Hope everyone is well.

Would anyone be able to advise me on the process of RE-ENTERING my cats back into Qatar from the uk, London.

I brought my cats with me to the uk on the 1st May 2026 and all their vaccines, tests and documents are valid. I know that I need a re-entry permit which I’m using privileged pets from Qatar but I’m really confused about the steps that I need to take from here in the uk.

Also, I will using Qatar airways, they will not go via cargo but rather check-in.

If anyone can advise me step by step on the process and what are Qatar and Qatar airways requirements I would sincerely appreciate it 🙏🏼

Thank you

Hi guys,
Hope everyone is well.

Would anyone be able to advise me on the process of RE-ENTERING my cats back into Qatar from the uk, London.

I brought my cats with me to the uk on the 1st May 2026 and all their vaccines, tests and documents are valid. I know that I need a re-entry permit which I’m using privileged pets from Qatar but I’m really confused about the steps that I need to take from here in the uk.

Also, I will using Qatar airways, they will not go via cargo but rather check-in.

If anyone can advise me step by step on the process and what are Qatar and Qatar airways requirements I would sincerely appreciate it 🙏🏼

Thank you

Salaam everyone,
I hope you are safe and well.

I need a little advise, I’d appreciate it if you can advise me given the information I am providing. I am being completely truthful so that I can get the best advise and that Allah swt is witness to me being fair.

Due to my circumstances I had to look for a partner for marriage myself. I met an amazing man, religious, head strong, family oriented… after a year of knowing him and waiting for him to start the process of our marriage I found out that the duration of the time I was with him that he had been talking to women on every single app you can think of and I mean literally every app. What’s worse is that he had the most indecent videos and pictures of women… and in there thousands. I only have my mother and I told her about him and all our plans. The problem is that we are currently in two different countries and when I would marry him I would live with him in his home country… he apologised and deleted all the apps and as for the pictures well I smashed his phone to pieces when I first got a hold of it and saw what I saw. It’s been 6months since the day I found out all this stuff and although he has told me many times he has repented I still can’t get over what I saw, what he was into… he wants me to cover up completely, not do Botox or wear certain things etc etc and I have no issue with that because I was always doing the right thing but it’s the hypocrisy … he said about my looks that my make up is too much, I shouldn’t put filters on my pictures, get the things girls get done eg nails, lashes etc (which I don’t) but all the while the the girls he was talking to were doing those things and he actually told me he liked them for the way they look…. It’s come to a stage where I don’t trust him, I always feel like his cheating on me… my self worth is down the drain and I’ve invested a year and half of my life waiting for him to marry and now his like I should get over it. The pictures and videos and chats meant nothing… it’s meaningless…. I was trying to forgive him and to get over this to make our relationship work and for the marriage to happen but his getting more and more distant and the worse thing is that he doesn’t understand the damage his done. It’s like it’s nothing so I should get over it, when I say to him would u accept this for ur sisters? He gets so upset … I really don’t know what to do or how to over come what I’ve been through … the pictures, the videos, the chats … the most indecent things … and I’m meant to just get over it? I am meant to be getting Nikkah done with him soon and his blaming me for being distant, he said it’s because I nag, fight and bring up the past. He at one point himself said to me I’m sorry, I haven’t given you your rights, you deserve better and I will do more but instead of making me feel loved and wanted his become very cold. It’s like I don’t exist, it’s always me calling him, me begging for attention, me reminding him that he has a responsibility towards us… I don’t even feel like he wants me, his not interested in me, we hardly talk and when we do its always silence or very simple talk or how we are doing etc but nothing to do with one another …. I feel like his just getting married to me for the sake of but his heart isn’t in it… I really don’t know what to do. I was so happy and my mother was so happy, she hasn’t got long left as she’s very unwell … if I don’t go ahead what do I tell her… I feel ashamed to tell her the truthful reason for our problems. I literally have no one to turn to, no other family or friends… I am hunted with those things he did till this very day. I could never ever imagine him doing such things, he is very religious, he has sisters … some who have experienced bad relationships themselves and he knows right from wrong and yet … pls can someone advise me as I literally feel like ending my life, I was honestly, loyal and ready for marriage and the life I wanted would be where we make our marriage work for the else of Allah swt and keep away from bad things, I wanted a family as I’ve never had one … I feel like his deterred my life. Once when I found out about the cheating for a year and now by being with me and going ahead but his not even soaking to me or has any interest…
Aplogies for any mistakes I’ve made while writing this as I’m in tears and can hardly see…