06/10/2026
🇦🇪 OUR UAE GOLDEN VISA
… AND WHY IT MEANS SO MUCH TO OUR FAMILY. 💚
Dubai has been our home for almost 30 years … and now we have the privilege of knowing it can remain home for many more.
There are some things that mean far more than the document you hold in your hand.
Receiving our UAE Golden Visas is one of them.
When we first came to Dubai, we could never have imagined the life we would build here.
This is where we built our life and found our purpose.
Where our children were born and grew up.
Where our family found its community.
And where something that began simply as a dad wanting to include his son in sport grew into Team AngelWolf … and a much bigger mission around inclusion, community and belonging, eventually becoming a licensed non-profit foundation with Dubai Community Development Authority.
So for Nick to receive his Golden Visa through Dubai Sports Council, in recognition of his contribution through sport, means an enormous amount to us.
Sport has given our family so much more than races and finish lines.
It has given Rio opportunities to participate and belong.
It has connected us with people from every corner of this community.
It has allowed us to help others feel, see and experience true community inclusion … and to help shape mindsets and create positive change.
And it has shown us, again and again, what can happen when we stop looking at why somebody can’t take part and start finding ways that they can.
And now, having also secured Golden Visas for Delphine, Tia and Rio, there is another feeling that is difficult to put into words:
Security.
The reassurance of knowing that the country Rio knows as home can continue to be his home.
We are incredibly grateful to Dubai Sports Council for supporting our Golden Visa journey, and to the UAE and Dubai for giving our family somewhere we have been able not simply to live … but to belong.
Almost 30 years ago, Dubai became our home.
We could never have imagined where that journey would take us.
Thank you, Dubai. 🇦🇪💚