Another reason to keep passport in your money belt

Kristen, so very true - and put it on before leaving the house. What a terrible story...Bureacracy is a beautiful thing...

Didn't Tom Hanks make a movie like this a while back? Only he lived. Another question: If the woman could not leave the airport without a passport, why was it ok for her body to leave without one?

Probably because bodies don't need passports?

So, since her body was returned sans passport, is a passport, in fact, for ones soul. Think about it...but not too hard.

An underlying story here, especially for those who are familiar with the article several months back in "The Economist" magazine, is the absolutely despicable treatment of foreign domestics at the hands of middle easterners. That might help to explain this poor woman's high level of stress.