Sunday, July 27, 2008

Visit Visas To Be Issued in 10-15 Minutes

From tomorrow, applicants approaching the naturalization and residency departments countrywide with the required documents could get visit visas within 10 to 15 minutes without any extra fees, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Interior (MOI).

Brigadier Nasir Al Awadi Al Minhali, Acting Director-General of the Federal Naturalization and Residency Department (FNRD) in the MOI, told reporters in the capital yesterday that the documents required include passport copies, photographs of the visitor and the data of the visitor including his/her address in his/her home country. The health insurance certificate of the visitor will have to be submitted after the approval of the application.

 

Under the new visas rule, the applicant must provide the health insurance certificate to the NRD as a major document for all types of visas, including tourist visas. Colonel Rashid Sultan Al Khider, Director of the Legal Department in the MOI, said that the applicants have to pay a refundable guarantee of AED1000. This guarantee should be paid to cover all types of visit visas, including tourist visas.

 

Brig Al Minhali said the MOI is surveying the nationalities and communities and more nationalities could be included in the list of 34 countries, whose citizens do not need to pay the guarantee deposit of AED1000, in case their communities comply with the NRD instructions. "The change is possible", said Brig Al Minhali.
(News Extract)

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