Russian tourists, as well as citizens of other CIS countries, must visit the UAE visa center before visiting the United Arab Emirates in order to obtain permission to enter the country. Among the features of obtaining this document, it is worth noting the six-month reserve of the passport, which is counted from the end of the trip, as well as the possibility of obtaining documents in electronic form. Like it or not, scientific and technological progress is still considered one of the key highlights of tourism in the UAE.
It is worth noting that people who travel through the UAE in transit can obtain a transit visa for these purposes for a period of up to 96 hours at each airport in this country, regardless of the services of which companies they use.
Documents
To obtain a permit, first you will need to visit the UAE Visa Application Center and bring the following documents:
- color copy of the passport;
- color photographs of the format 4.3 x 5.5 cm;
- fully completed application form.
If you are going to travel with children, then in this case you will need to attach to the documents also a copy of their birth certificates. If unmarried women are planning to go on an independent trip, who at the same time have booked a 2-3 star hotel for their vacation, then in this case the agency will require a deposit of $ 1,500 from you. This amount is returned to the owner if he leaves the country in a timely manner.
Be sure to pay attention to the fact that when submitting documents it is not allowed to use copies of the photograph on the passport, since it, like a copy of this document, will need to be sent in separate files that have the name of the tourist’s name and surname in English with the arrival date in country. All this documentation can be transferred to your travel operator on electronic media or send by e-mail.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, any UAE visa center draws up a standard tourist visa for a month for five working days. If the children are included in the passport, then in this case they can be issued a permit absolutely free of charge, and if the child has his own document, he will have to apply for an adult visa, respectively, paying separately. It is worth noting that if you apply for a permit through the visa center of the UAE in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, you can even get a multiple visa, which lasts from one to three months.
Registration of permits is carried out by the immigration service, and they are issued to tourists after arrival at the destination in the form of the original or a copy. The cost of a visa in the UAE is $ 60. Before departing, tourists must first obtain a written confirmation in their hands, which is issued by the hotel or the host tour operator.
Features to consider
Despite the fact that there are no official age or gender restrictions, the UAE Visa Application Center may refuse to issue a visa to unmarried women under the age of 30, as well as women of this age if they arrive in the country with their husbands, but if this does not have the same surname with them. Both entry and exit from the country are carried out on a tourist visa only through a specific airport. It is also worth noting the fact that visas cannot be issued to holders of Israeli passports.
Types of Visas
A visa to the United Arab Emirates is done only once, and with each subsequent entry you must constantly apply for permission again.
Instead of the standard and for many familiar stickers in the passport, each person is given a specialized file with an ID number, and all the information that is necessary for entry is stored only in electronic format. The number comes to your mail, after which you will need to print it on A4 paper and take it with you to visit the country.
There are only a few types of visas:
- Guestbook - provides the possibility of staying in the country up to 90 days. Such permission is issued in two stages: first, the applicant submits a full package of documents that could confirm the purpose of the trip for such a period. Documents for a visa in the UAE can be brought in person or simply sent to the official e-mail of the visa center. After that, explain your situation, attach copies of documents and leave contact information for communication. Next, you will need to wait for confirmation or rejection by the migration service. If the application has been approved, then later it will be necessary to bring the rest of the package of necessary documents.
- Tourist - provides for the possibility of staying in the country for 30 days without the possibility of further extension. Great for tourists who want to come to friends, visit tours to the Emirates, and also meet with relatives or partners. To obtain such a permit, you must first pay the consular fee, as well as pay the commission of the visa center, which is the sum of the cost of a visa in the UAE. In this case, the amount of the commission will directly depend on the company you have chosen, as well as the urgency and individual requirements for the documents. As a sponsor for a trip, you can choose a hotel, airline or travel agency.
- Service - issued for 14 days. The best option for any business trips or for people doing business. Most often issued for sales managers, company representatives and other specialists.
- By invitation - up to 30 days in the UAE with the possibility of further extension. Often such permits are issued for visits to relatives, however, in order to get it, you must have a sponsor in the form of a close relative.
- Transit - issued for 4 days stay. In addition to the need for transfers at UAE airports, you can apply for this type of visa for brief business meetings. To obtain such a visa, it is quite simple to pay the service and consular fees, but it operates exclusively at the airport.
- Cruise - issued for people who visit tours to the Emirates on the liner. Registration of such a visa is carried out during the trip on any cruises, when it will be necessary to land at several ports. It can be single or multiple and is issued within 10-15 days.
- Resident - is issued for the possibility of staying in the country for three years. To obtain such permission, a person must have a certain real estate or an official place of work in some local company. An application for the issuance of such a document must be submitted exclusively by the employer, and if a person leaves the UAE for a period of more than six months, the visa is completely canceled.
All types of visas are issued for a period of 59 days from the moment the UAE Visa Application Center provided it to you. St. Petersburg, Moscow and other large cities have several centers in which you can apply for such a permit, and then activate it for a while (depending on type). For this reason, a visa must be dealt with no earlier than two months before the date of your departure.
Confirmation of financial solvency
To obtain permission, you will need to confirm your financial condition, be an active traveler or get an invitation.
Active travelers are people who over the past five years have visited Schengen countries, England, Australia, the United States and several others. To confirm this, it is enough to submit a copy of your passport, as well as one page on which the visa of one of these countries appears. If you traveled to some other countries, but at the same time you visited them at least twice in the last five years, then this should also be a reason for issuing a permit to you, but you still have to confirm your income over the past two years.
The financial viability in visa centers is determined by annual earnings of more than 400,000 rubles, but to confirm this income, you need to submit a certificate in the form of 2-NDFL, which must be issued later in the year. It is also possible to submit a certificate from the bank or a certificate of employment.
Visa for children
In order to apply for permission for a child, you will additionally need to submit the following documents:
- birth certificate;
- permission to leave from parents if they do not accompany him.
If the child is registered in the parents' passport and his photo is pasted, then when traveling together they not only do not need to draw up and present a separate passport, but they are also completely exempted from the need to pay fees.
Decoration through the center of Dubai
Many people prefer to use the services of the national company Emirates to apply for a visa to the United Arab Emirates. Dubai has its own center in Moscow, which serves exclusively customers of this company and at the same time provides a lot of privileges for tourists.
Before submitting documents to the visa center, it is recommended to make sure that the applicant's data fully meets one of the following criteria:
- the applicant has, over the past five years, visited or has visas in the following countries: England, USA, Schengen countries, Canada, Japan, New Zealand;
- the applicant may submit a certificate stating that over the past year his income was 400,000 rubles or his monthly salary over the past six months was more than 33,000 rubles.
Like adult applicants, children must meet certain visa criteria. If the persons do not meet at least one of the above criteria, paperwork through the visa center becomes inaccessible to them and, therefore, they will no longer be able to get to the Emirates. Dubai, like other cities with visa centers in Russia, puts forward the same rules for everyone.
After obtaining a permit, a visa is issued for 30 days, while there is a so-called entry corridor, which has a period of 58 days from the date of issue of this document to you. An urgent visa to the UAE can be issued here if there are appropriate reasons.
Addresses of the center: Moscow, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 2, ground floor; St. Petersburg, Nevsky Prospect, 55, second floor.
Clearance through the center of Abu Dhabi
If you decide to travel using the services of Etihad Airways, then in this case you can visit the visa center, which is located in Moscow. In addition to the standard set of documents, schoolchildren, students under the age of 21, as well as pensioners over 60, will be required to submit a sponsorship letter from sponsoring relatives, as well as various papers that confirm your relationship (all documents must be fully translated into English )
Here, a visa is issued to the UAE for tourists, and such a permit allows you to stay in the country for 30 days, it is possible to extend this permit to 40 days through the Department of Immigration.
Center address: Moscow, st. Bolshaya Molchanovka, 30/7.
Registration through the center of Asian countries
It is also possible to submit all the necessary documents for applying for a visa through the visa center of Asian countries, which is also located in Moscow. It is immediately worth noting that this center is a fully authorized partner of the Office for Migration and Citizenship of the United Arab Emirates.
A tourist visa in this case can only be issued a single entry, with a period of 29 days. For those who want to go to the United Arab Emirates, they need a tourist type visa, and the corridor to enter it is 60 days without the possibility of further extension.
Center address: Moscow, st. Pyatnitskaya, 43, building 3, office 5.
Clearance through the center of Sharjah
This center is an official partner of the Air Arabia transport company, but at the same time, the issuance of permits to enter the UAE is carried out not only by those persons who are clients of this organization. A visa to the United Arab Emirates with the help of the representative office of Sharjah is issued upon filing a minimum package of documents, which includes:
- color copy of the passport in which all the necessary data and the client’s signature will be visible;
- fully completed electronic questionnaire located on the official website of the organization;
- color photograph of the client, made on a light background;
- ticket or booking a round-trip ticket.
It is also worth noting that the UAE visa center in Moscow from the Sharjah representative office allows tourists to apply for travel and three-month permits, as well as multi-visas for a period of 30 and 90 days. If you want to apply for an urgent visa and if there are good reasons for this, the procedure can be carried out within one to two days.
Center address: Moscow, st. Maroseyka, d. 7/8, of. 206.
Registration through airports
Tourists who are forced to travel through the Emirates in transit can always fly to the UAE from Moscow or any other city, and then immediately obtain a transit visa for up to 96 hours at any airport directly at their destination, while there is no difference what kind of services You decided to use the transport company. It should be noted that the waiting time for a connecting flight should be at least eight hours, and the further direction should be different from your departure place. In addition, you must definitely have booked some room in the Emirates hotel, but this is also allowed to be done upon arrival.
Self-registration
Citizens of the CIS can obtain visas online without the need to purchase a tour or tickets for a particular company, so it’s permissible to use the services of any flight organization. Also, if you wish, you can submit documents in paper form, but you need to do this directly in the official office of one of the major cities.
After registration, it will be enough to fill out the questionnaire in detail, and then bring the full package of necessary documentation to the UAE Embassy, namely:
- A photo or a color scan made in good quality (without flash and any light) from your passport, as well as a page with your photo and personal information. The maximum permissible file resolution is 900x1200, and there must be at least one free page for the stamp.
- Color photo taken on a light background and saved in jpg format. File resolution from 200x257 to 400x514 is allowed, but its volume should be no more than 60 Kb. If the documents are submitted by you completely in paper form, then the photographs may be in the 3x4 or 4x4 cm format.
- Copy or file confirming the purchase of tickets.
- Financial guarantees (bank statement, certificate of employment or visa to other countries).
- Fully completed application form or questionnaire.
Next, you will only need to pay the service and consular fees. A tourist visa is issued within 4-5 business days, and a transit visa is done in just 2-3 days. The status of readiness of documents can always be viewed through a personal document.
Thus, if the applicant fully meets the criteria for issuing visas, it will not be difficult to go through the entire procedure for obtaining him. It is quite simple to bring the entire necessary package of documents to the UAE embassy or your tour operator, and then wait for a certain time until the specialists will be engaged in checking all the papers and making a decision regarding the issuance of your permission.