Hello there,
Does anyone have any info on being sponsored to visit dubai. I am travelling to pakistan via dubai from north america with 18 hour stay in dubai. Long story short, airline wont issue hotel or visa. I do have family there and someone once told me that if family sponsors you to visit, visa is free. True?
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No its not free. It cost you around $50.
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I always stop by Dubai and have a visa free entry due to my british nationality .. Last time they did ask me to book a hotel , which was a must .. but other then that they didnt ask for anything .. this was last year .. I presume that should be the case for American passport holders as well ?
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I heard we could get in visa free. Never been there though.
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yeah i think its visa free for upto three months ...
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30 days for Americans.
Looked it up on Wikipedia, so not sure.
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Hello there, Does anyone have any info on being sponsored to visit dubai. I am travelling to pakistan via dubai from north america with 18 hour stay in dubai. Long story short, airline wont issue hotel or visa. I do have family there and someone once told me that if family sponsors you to visit, visa is free. True?
If you are a US citizen you will not need any sponsorship from your family there. Just go to the immigration counter directly and they will stamp a 30 day visa into your passport. No additional requirements like hotels, sponsorships, etc.
If you are a Pakistani citizen traveling on Emirates, then the most economical option is to get a 96-hour visa through the airline. However if you are not traveling on Emirates that will not be possible.
In that case your relatives there would have to sponsor your visit visa which is valid for 30 days and is much more expensive than the 96-hour visa you would get from Emirates Airline. For that you would have to send a copy of your passport + a passport sized photograph to your relatives. They would then have to go to the DNRD office along with their own passport, their income statement (there is a certain income required for sponsoring visit visas) and the documents you sent them. After paying the visa fee, they can collect the original visa (a pink coloured A4 page) after a couple of days from the DNRD. They then have to send a scanned copy of the original visa to you. Make sure you have a printout of that with you when you leave the US. Your relatives have to submit the original visa at the airport a few hours before your arrival. Once you arrive in Dubai you would have to go to the visa collection counter, get the original visa from there, go for an Eye Scan and then to the actual immigration counter.
Re: dubai visa
If you are a US citizen you will not need any sponsorship from your family there. Just go to the immigration counter directly and they will stamp a 30 day visa into your passport. No additional requirements like hotels, sponsorships, etc.
If you are a Pakistani citizen traveling on Emirates, then the most economical option is to get a 96-hour visa through the airline. However if you are not traveling on Emirates that will not be possible.
In that case your relatives there would have to sponsor your visit visa which is valid for 30 days and is much more expensive than the 96-hour visa you would get from Emirates Airline. For that you would have to send a copy of your passport + a passport sized photograph to your relatives. They would then have to go to the DNRD office along with their own passport, their income statement (there is a certain income required for sponsoring visit visas) and the documents you sent them. After paying the visa fee, they can collect the original visa (a pink coloured A4 page) after a couple of days from the DNRD. They then have to send a scanned copy of the original visa to you. Make sure you have a printout of that with you when you leave the US. Your relatives have to submit the original visa at the airport a few hours before your arrival. Once you arrive in Dubai you would have to go to the visa collection counter, get the original visa from there, go for an Eye Scan and then to the actual immigration counter.
A long process! And when you stare away from the eye test cam - that rude and proud Arabic lad would say "seedhay dekh"
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just came back from Dubai - now you do not need to wait in two queues for getting into Dubai (just one for both passport control and eye test)! Well Dubai is now as expensive as London in terms of many things.