Blue
A couple of points that may help you along. PPrune used to be a fairly authoritative source of job info, no longer the case I’m afraid. Lots of personal opinion, that unless you know the person concerned may well not be valid for you and your personal circumstances.
I urge you to contact as many friends or acquaintances as you can in Dubai. If that is not possible then give yourself (and wife?) a break and spend some time here to find out if the lifestyle is the same as that painted at the interview. Surely a significant life change is worth the effort. See threads by other disillusioned individuals that didn’t do their homework.
For what it’s worth I’ve been here a while now and in general really enjoy the ‘package’. When I don’t then I will move on.
Finally, don’t expect any sympathy from anyone that has been here for more than a year that your travel arrangements don’t come up to scratch. We all paid our own way…