Ammar Afridi

Ammar Afridi has spent four years preparing travel and visa documentation for UAE residents, working on Schengen, UK, US and Canada files and handling more than 2,000 applications.

Most of the problems he sees are avoidable: a reservation that expires before the consulate opens the file, a PNR that was never in a GDS, travel dates that do not match the rest of the application. He writes about what embassies, airlines and immigration officers actually check, in the order they check it.

He is based in Dubai and reviews the reservations My Dummy Ticket issues.