Dear glaizy,

My case was somewhat similar. My wife was travelling in May for 4 months due to the same reason, and her visa was expiring in Aug 2012.

The Visa renewal procedure is that you can only apply to renew a visa in the last three months of Expiry.

Where as in my case it was 5 months. I went to the immigration office, building no 2 i guess and met the people there, I took an application typed in Arabic, as i know that is the easiest way to communicate with them if you dont know arabic.

Any way i went to the captain sitting there and got it renewed. All thanks to Allah. He makes things easy for us.