Category: UAE Visa & Entry Guide

Kenyan passport holders cannot simply board a flight to Dubai and sort the visa out on arrival — in most cases the visa has to exist before you travel. This guide explains how the system actually works for Kenyans: the standard pre-arranged tourist visa, the newer on-arrival exception for Kenyans who live in certain Western […]

Nigerian passport holders need a visa arranged before travelling to the UAE — there is no visa on arrival for an ordinary Nigerian passport. Visa services for Nigerians resumed in July 2024 after a long suspension, and the process that returned came with an extra step: document verification before the visa application itself. This guide […]

If you hold a Nepalese passport, the single most important fact is this: Nepal is not on the UAE’s visa-on-arrival or visa-exempt list, so you must have an approved visa before you travel. Airlines will check for it at check-in in Kathmandu, and you will not be allowed to board without one. The good news […]

Most problems at Dubai immigration are decided before you ever reach the airport: a passport with too little validity left, the wrong visa category, or no return ticket booked. This guide pulls the entry requirements together in one place — the passport rule, who needs a visa in advance, what officers may ask to see, […]

Sri Lankan passport holders are some of Dubai’s most frequent visitors — for family trips, shopping runs, cricket tours and stopovers on the way to and from the Gulf’s large Sri Lankan community. The entry rule is simple, though: Sri Lanka is not on the UAE’s visa-on-arrival lists, so you need a tourist visa approved […]

If you hold an Egyptian passport, Dubai is close, familiar and heavily connected by direct flights from Cairo and Alexandria — but it is not a visa-on-arrival trip. Egyptian citizens need a UAE tourist visa arranged before they travel, and the airline will check for it at the departure desk. The good news is that […]

If you hold a Bangladeshi passport, a Dubai holiday starts with paperwork, not packing. Bangladesh is not on the UAE’s visa-on-arrival list, so your tourist visa must be arranged before you fly — and in the last couple of years, applications from Bangladeshi travellers have faced extra scrutiny and slower, less predictable decisions. None of […]

A Dubai visa rejection usually arrives as a one-line message from your agent — “rejected” — with no reason attached. That silence is the worst part, because the fix depends entirely on the cause. A blurry passport scan needs a rescan and a fresh application. An uncancelled old visa needs a cancellation first. An unpaid […]

Filipino travellers are one of the largest visitor groups in the UAE — and one of the groups that most often gets the visa step wrong. The short version: Philippine passport holders need a visa arranged before they fly to Dubai, unless they hold a valid visa or residence permit from a short list of […]

If you visit the UAE three, four or five times a year — to see family, for business-adjacent trips, or because Dubai is your default short break — applying for a fresh tourist visa every time is slow and expensive. The five-year multiple-entry tourist visa was built for exactly that pattern: one application, no local […]