UAE: Reunited family ready to fly home after 3-year search for missing expat
The wife expressed her gratitude towards those who stood by them, including the Pakistani hosts and the documents' helper.
An Indian woman, who had come to the UAE to look for her missing husband, met and lived with him for the first time in a fortnight and is now on her way back to India with the family.
Addressing the media Ms Aayush Prime Automobiles Seagate In Abu Dubai's Aetaida, Three years old Son ‘Sanjay Motilal Parmar’, Age 53 years Construction worker who was missing for 3 years.
Sanjay now finally tries to comprehend the feeling of returning after years of waiting for him, “It feels like a second chance. I am still digesting the fact – If am not in London anymore.
Sanjay's wife, Komal, who displayed her sense of sanguinity, grieved for the family. 'Each day for the past three years and more has been a day where no calendar has gone and no one is moving. I believe there’s some sense of relief. Knowing that we’re going to be together, as well, I nobody becomes breathless anymore.
Mrs Aayush and her son reached UAE on the 8th of September after missing her husband, Sanjay, for a long time and after trying all possible ways through authorities and embassies looking for him.
Ali Hasnain, a Pakistani Engineer of Etisalat residing in Abu Dhabi, remembered Sanjay from the pictures and mentioned that he had been living with him and his brother from March 2021. Also, after a very short checking up, organised a meeting to hang together on which on the 20th of Interested Aayush and Komal travelled from Dubai to Abu Dhabi.
As soon as he laid his eyes on his wife and son, Sanjay became emotional to the extent of crying and hugged them very tightly.
Nevertheless, bittersweet emotions were present because there were some details that the family had to complete before returning back to India. Aayush's missing person report which he had lodged in Bur Dubai had to be discontinued while quite a bit of paperwork in the suburbs of Sharjah, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi had to be done.
“It seemed too much bureaucratic stage at first but events are gradually falling into place" Komal has stated, conveying a sense of appreciation that they are all set to their flight back. “All matters have been settled, and the necessary papers to leave out are with us," she said matter of fact.
Komal was thankful for the goodwill of people whom they did not know, anyways the help was received. 'We are in a country known to everybody else and there were no issues.
There were so many—people we never knew—who helped us from paying for the hotel bill for the night to getting us the air tickets,’ she explained.
She particularly mentioned a social worker Roshan Ratauri and thanked him for devoting days loading the family up in a car and driving for several emirates so that all the necessary forms could be filed.
Komal also paused on the selflessness that went beyond race and religion. “I mean I ‘m still shocked that so many people of different penchants came forward for us.
It shows the heart of UAE if you need help people will help you regardless of where you are from, ” she added.
Particularly, she extended her gratitude to Ali Hasnain and Mohammad Naseem, the Pakistani brothers who had looked after her husband for long.
Sanjay, while remembering his long period of silence, revealed how economic pressure and excruciating shame prevented him from getting in touch with other people.
“I was conned by an Indian recruitment agent and then out of the blue, i had nothing.
I overstayed my visa & didn’t have cash to pay the overdue charges. When I didn’t call them the next day, and they should have expected me to call them, I just couldn’t show my face. It was best that they did not find out the extent of my ineptitude, ” he said.
Separated from his kin, Sanjay forged a bond with the Pakistani siblings who welcomed him. “They regarded me like a family. While I may have been cut off from the family, they assured I would never be lonely,” Sanjay remarked.
Aayush, still coming to terms with their coming together for the first time, was quick to thank him, “without their help, we would still be searching. What we couldn’t in three years, they have accomplished in just one day. We are indebted to them in every way possible.”
Sanjay now hopes to start a new life with his family in Surat. It is a second opportunity I have been given, and I am not going to squander it.
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