Visiting Dubai – Visas

By Ksenya  

Christmas and New Year are coming and it’s a busy season for visiting Dubai. For those of you planning to come or perhaps you are expecting guests here are some important info regarding the entry visa.

passportsFirstly, everyone needs a visa to enter UAE. Certain nationalities (listed below) are automatically granted a 30 days visit visa at the airport upon arrival. The countries are: Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Brunei, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, South Korea, Finland, Malta, Spain, Monaco, Vatican City, Iceland, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand. These visas are currently free, however in future they might be charged 100 dhs (approx 20 euros or 30 US$).

All other nationalities have to have a visa prior to arriving to the UAE. Visa can be obtained through:

  •  A hotel where the visitor will be staying or via travel agency specializing in issuing tourist visas. Also Emirates Airlines can provide the visit visas for certain nationalities when they buy a ticket to Dubai, however this needs to be checked and arranged from Emirates office in visitor’s country of origin. 
  • An individual already working in UAE sponsoring a visitor. An individual can sponsor their immediate family members only (spouse, parents, brother/sister or children) for a visit visa, providing that he/she has minimum salary of 4,000dhs (proof of salary and relationship will be asked).

Visa costs around 700 dhs (approx 150 euros or 200 US$) wheatear you sponsor your relatives or you do it for them through one of the local agencies. Needless to say, it’s much easier to do it through agency. You email the agency your passport with visa and your visitor passport and voila! – 7 days later the visa gets emailed to you. It’s advisable to contact agencies few weeks before your visitor’s need visa, as agencies have quotas, and during busy times (winter) they can ran out of their quota. Also visa online system is notorious for being down, so some planning is required.

Once red tape is finish, just pack your bags, but keep them light, you want to leave space for souvenirs and all the bargains you will find in Dubai! Welcome to UAE!

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2 Comments

  1. Maja
    Posted December 9, 2009 at 11:00 am | Permalink

    By no means am I expert for visas, but I remember taking visa for my mother through my company- Emirates airlines- was around 350 dirhams. I think there are some exceptions to the prices ,but I will doublecheck on that..

  2. Ksenya
    Posted December 10, 2009 at 8:29 am | Permalink

    Thanks for your comment.

    There might be 2 explanations for this:

    First one and more likely is that you have done visa for your mother before the Immigrations changed the prices last year. They used to be considerebly cheaper, between 150-250 dhs (potentially your company used to charge a small fee to process the visa so that would total itup to 350).

    Other is that government and semigovernment sponsored employees (like you) might have a discount, however i think that is not very likely.

    I look forward hearing from you and learning something new.

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