Awards and Certificates

The Sheikha Shamsa Bin Suhail Award's Creativity Award for Women with Special Needs was won by Al-Madani/Hawa Muhammad Ahli. Hawa Muhammad Ahli experienced a severe rise in her body temperature in her fifth year. Her parents were unaware of the severity of her condition until after the height had negatively impacted her hearing and speech, turning her from a normal child to a deaf mute. Despite this, Hawa Muhammad Ahli did not give up and kept looking until that point. In 2005, she discovered a position opening at the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, where she distinguished herself in numerous fields with excellence and creativity while demonstrating her capacity to give to others

In the Friends of the Arts category, the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai won the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Art Supporters.

In the Dubai Government Excellence Program's category for the government organisation most dedicated to the national identity, the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs came in third place.

• First place in the Minister of Interior Award (leader stage) for the Distinguished Internal Performance Improvement Team for the Dubai Model Team and the problem-solving category in the "Counting Violators" initiative went to the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai. The top spot for the best customer service facility. • Colonel Hussein Ibrahim Ahmed was recognised as the best officer in the field of supervision. • Lieutenant Rashid Abdullah Saeed took first place as the best officer in the field. • To protect ports, Sergeant Faisal Abdullah Al Zaabi received this honour. • The Creative Employee Award went to Captain Marwan Abdullah Belhasa. • Assistant Ahmed Abdullah Naji won the best non-commissioned officer and personnel award in the administrative field. • Captain Amer Rashid Aaded Al Muhairi won the technical field's best non-commissioned officer and personnel award. • Al-Madani Talib, bin Ali Al-Shehhi, won the Ideal Driver Award.

The General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai took first place in the category for financially distinguished government agencies in the Dubai Government Excellence Program in 2014. - Third place for the smart gates projects in the categories of distinguished joint government project and distinguished government entity electronically. - Colonel Khalaf Ahmed Al-Ghaith took first place in the category of distinguished government workers.

The Dubai residence won several awards in the Authority’s President’s Award for Excellence in its first session, which the Federal Authority organised for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Ports Security, and they were as follows: - First place in the Distinguished Organizational Unit category (Integrated Management). - Lieutenant Colonel Rashid Obaid Al Ketbi won first place for the best customer service manager in the Knight of Excellence category. - Mahra Darwish Al-Muhairi won first place in the Knight of Excellence category for the youth-civilian category. - Fatima Salman Al-Sabri won the Ideal Mother Award - Civilian. - Lieutenant Amina Al-Sayed Al-Hashemi won the Knight of Excellence award in customer happiness. - Major Khaled Abdullah Al-Hashemi won second place in the category of the Chairman of the Commission for the best innovator. - Maryam Abdul Rasool Abu Al-Maleh won second place for Al-Madaniya in the Knight of Excellence category for the youth category. - Major Omran Ahmed Al Ali won the Best Innovator Award in the category of Chairman of the Authority. Naglaa Omar Al-Doukhi won third place in the category of Chairman of the Commission for Excellence in the Specialized Field..

The General Department of Residence and Foreign Affairs has won the Sustainable Transport Award in the category of smart applications for the Home Work Initiative, as the department's "telecom work" experience has contributed to a 100% increase in employee productivity. The initiative has proved very successful, It benefited the administration, the staff and the community much, explaining that the Department had selected five competent female citizens with family needs that required their stay at home and had given them the option of working from home. Female employees issued electronic stays, renovated them and changed resident data from home, and the performance of female employees increased significantly, with each performing about 300 transactions per day, and the rate rose to more than 700 every day

In the category of creativity in the field of smart government, the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, represented by the Entry and Residence Permits Sector, won the Emirates Ideas Award for the project "50 Plus," which allows customers, if they meet all the requirements, to complete their transactions in a time not exceeding 15 seconds. Dubai will thus be the location to complete the entry permit the fastest in the entire world.

Al-Madaniya/Manal Al-Jasmi took first place in the distinguished new employee category of the Dubai Government Excellence Program Award. Maha Al-Dabbous, a civil servant, took third place in the category of outstanding female employees.

The Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein Award for Special Education recognized the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai as a "Distinguished Supporter" for its efforts to achieve excellence in the special education sector. The award encourages special education workers to give more and work harder to advance services. the provision of services for those with special needs and the encouragement of the national technical and administrative cadres, in particular, to collaborate with those individuals and improve the quality of the services offered to them.