If you are an overseas Filipino worker and you are planning to return to the Philippines for good, you must first surrender your Emirates ID before leaving the UAE.
The General Directorate for Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) will hand over the returned ID card to Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (FAIC), which had issued the card.
“No residency visa will be cancelled without the ID cards. Cancelling the visa, for the purpose of leaving the country forever or for the purpose of changing jobs, requires [handing over] the ID cards,” said GDRFA in a report.
For more information regarding the Emirates ID, you may contact EIDA via the ‘Ask Hamad‘ service through 6005-30003.
News sources: Government.ae with supporting reports from Gulf News
