The United Arab Emirates (UAE) administration has begun issuing visitor visas, including to Indians, in the run-up to Expo 2020 in Dubai, which begins on October 1 onwards. VFS Global confirmed the resumption of tourist visa services on August 30, 2021, as the UAE declared it would reopen its borders to all travelers, including Indians, ahead of the Expo 2020 trade fair.
Travelers must produce a valid negative Covid-19 RT-PCR test certificate issued within 48 hours of collecting the sample and from an approved health service that uses the QR code system, as well as a fast PCR test result completed six hours before departure and submitted with a QR code. Tourists will no longer be required to obtain permission from the country’s General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs (GDRFA) or the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (ICA), which were previously necessary to grant such permits.
Passengers interested in visiting the UAE on a tourist visa can apply online at http://www.emirates.com/ or in person at one of the agency’s Dubai Visa Processing Centres in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kochi, Hyderabad, New Delhi, and Thiruvananthapuram, which are only open on certain days of the week.
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