My fiance' and son traveled to Dubai as he is an Architect. He designed a mall there.

When it came time to fly home the hotel clerk asked him if he had his BTA (Basic Travel Allowance). We had never heard of it.

So I sent him $4,000 to carry on the plane. On the way back to the hotel he was robbed. NO one except my fiance', the hotel emplyee and I knew the money was being sent. On the way back he was robbed.


I am not worried about the money, just want to get them back to the United States.

There is no such thing. My sister flies from Dubai to the US and back several times a year.

He's your fiance? Have you ever actually met him? What you've described here is a very popular scam.There is no such thing as a BTA and chances are that the only one that was robbed was you.

Which mall did he design? My sister and her family love to go skiing in the Mall of the Emirates.

This is a common scam,

There is no such thing as a BTA and most certainly a hotel clerk has nothing to do with it,

So, if he is a real boyfriend, he buys his airline ticket and comes home, no issue at all. So he can just come home, no BTA needed.

If this was a person you have never actually meet in person. ( but you said son? ) that is more the normal scam, where they just take your money, say they were robbed and ask for more money.