Obtaining a visa in the UAE: guest, tourist or work

The desire to visit the United Arab Emirates can be dictated by various reasons. This is a comfortable stay in luxury hotels, and the most profitable shopping in the world, and the implementation of business ideas. But regardless of the purpose of the trip, preparation for it begins with finding the answer to the question: how to get a visa to the UAE.

Traveling on a tour

Departure for shopping or vacation by the sea through the purchase of services from a travel company is carried out with minimal involvement of the customer in the mandatory procedures associated with obtaining a visa to the UAE.

As a rule, almost all travel agencies that sell such tours already have business ties with firms specializing in obtaining short-term tourist visas. In this situation, in order to apply for a visa to the UAE, a Russian must submit the following package of documents to a travel agent:

• scans of two color photographs;
• a scan of the international passport, the validity of which should not expire in the next six months from the date of the start of the trip and in which there is one blank page.

These are all the documents according to which the permit to enter the Emirates will be issued.

Young people under the age of 21 planning a solo trip should pay attention to the following.

According to the UAE migration laws, a person under the age of twenty-one is considered a child, and his entry into the UAE is possible only if accompanied by parents or older relatives.

If a married woman who is under 21 years of age is planning to travel, she may be accompanied by her spouse or parents. If accompanied by a spouse, a scanned copy of the marriage certificate is additionally submitted, if accompanied by parents - a birth certificate.

Without these documents, it is impossible to obtain an entry permit.

The tour operator will inform you about how many days a visa to the UAE is made in case of an organized trip. Usually the whole procedure takes no more than one working week. It is possible to reduce this period to one day, but then the cost of visa services will double.

The visa permit of the UAE is not pasted into the passport, like a Schengen visa, but is issued in the form of an electronic registration. A printout of an electronic document is issued to a tourist by a travel agency through which he bought vouchers and which accepted documents for issuing an entry permit. Upon arrival at the UAE airport, the tourist presents a printout in the passport control sector. The printout must be kept throughout your stay in the UAE.

Before departure, the tourist has the opportunity to check the UAE visa on a special electronic resource of the immigration service, by number and date.

The maximum stay in the country on the basis of a tourist visa is 30 days. There is a possibility of its extension.

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Independent trip

If a trip to the Emirates with a travel agency is not suitable for some reason, you can always find information on how to apply for a visa to the UAE yourself.

For those who are going to visit the country for tourism purposes, it is enough to independently find a Russian visa company that cooperates with the UAE Immigration Service in Russia. Self-submission of documents to the consulate is not provided.

Visa Application Centers cooperating with the Service accept documents by e-mail and send ready-made electronic documents on opening a visa through it.

On the websites of visa companies, you can find information about how long it takes to get a visa to the UAE. Two options are usually offered:

• up to seven days, for about $100;
• up to two days, for about $150.

These prices are not tied to hotels and air travel.

For travelers who want to save on permits, there is an opportunity to cooperate with airlines. So, a visa to the UAE through Emirates, a large international company that specializes in air travel, will cost about 60 US dollars. And the low cost of a visa is not the only advantage of such cooperation. A comfortable, fast and safe flight with Emirates aircraft is a good start to an interesting journey.

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Visiting trip

A trip to the United Arab Emirates to visit relatives must be accompanied by a visa-visit permit. This type of permit is issued for 60 days, renewable for another 30 days.

Not every travel agency can find out what is needed for a “visit-visa” to the Emirates and how much such permission is made. Only specialized visa centers undertake the processing of guest documents.

The difficulty lies not only in the fact that these permits are issued exclusively to close relatives. Applicants are required to legalize their relationship documents, provide information about their real estate, work and the availability of sufficient funds in a bank account.

To obtain a travel permit to visit close relatives, you must submit and receive documents at the UAE Immigration Service. The terms of obtaining the same as for a tourist visa, but the cost is much higher - about 300 US dollars.

Considering how much a UAE visa costs to visit close relatives and the fact that with this permission you can stay in the country a little longer than with a tourist visa, many do not see the point in messing with a visitor visa. It is easier to find an opportunity to extend the tourist in the Emirates themselves.

Employment

A Russian who has the opportunity to find a job in the Emirates or opens his own company and business there must obtain a residence permit as a resident of this country.

A residence visa in the UAE is issued directly in the Emirates themselves. It is valid for three years and may be renewed.

To obtain this type of permit, a Russian must:

• Sign a contract with an Arab company or open your own company in the UAE.
• Arrive in the UAE on a tourist visa and contact the specialized Typing Office centers that specialize in issuing visa permits for foreigners.
• Before contacting the Typing Office, you need to collect documents. Some of them are provided by the employer or the firm that registered the business for the incoming foreigner, some are brought from Russia in a legalized form.
• To obtain a resident visa, you must undergo a medical examination and be fingerprinted.

Upon completion of all licensing procedures, a foreigner is pasted a resident visa into his passport, where the validity period of the visa in the UAE is indicated. How much such a visa will be made depends on the completeness of the package of documents and on whether additional information is needed by the migration service. Usually the term of receipt does not exceed two weeks.

In any case, whatever visa is needed in the UAE, the timing of its issuance depends on whether the applicant's documents are in order and whether he is ready to pay extra for the urgency of obtaining the necessary permits. The ability to pay extra for urgency greatly simplifies the task for some foreigners who need fast paperwork. The visa policy of far from every country is so loyal to applicants for entry documents.

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