Welcome back to Passport Full of Elsewhere. I am Riya Menon. If you grew up in the Gulf, you know the quiet rule that nobody talks about at school. Your right to live here belongs to your parent's job, and at some point, often around twenty-five, it runs out. This week I am with Zainab, who was raised in Doha on a Pakistani passport, and Daniel, who grew up in Dubai on a South African one. Both packed up the only home they had ever known and moved to a country they had visited a handful of times. We talk about the practical panic, the bank accounts and licences, the friends scattered across six time zones, and the strange grief for a city that raised you but never claimed you. Near the end I share a short checklist for anyone facing that year. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.