UAE: Five-year multi-entry tourist visa in high demand as residents seek to ease parents’ travel

UAE: Five-year multi-entry tourist visa in high demand as residents seek to ease parents’ travel

Visitors can extend stay for 90 days in addition to initial 90 days without leaving the country

Published: Tue 6 Sep 2022, 7:05 PM Last updated: Tue 6 Sep 2022, 7:46 PM

With the sweeping visa reforms announced by the UAE being trialled, residents have highlighted how the five-year multiple-entry tourist visa has helped them spend more time with their parents. Many of them are using the visa to ease the travel and entry procedures of their parents.

“It has made life so much easier for us,” said Taanya Ilyas, an Abu Dhabi resident.

“My parents used to live and work here. We grew up here and my sisters and I still live here so they often come for visit. However, taking a visit visa every single time was quite a task.”

Taanya Ilyas took the visa for her parents. Supplied photo

That is why she decided to take the multiple entry visit visa for her parents this year. “All the documentation was online and pretty straightforward,” she said. “We had to show the bank balance requirements, insurance for the stay and proof of stay for 3 months.”

The five-year, multiple-entry tourist visa to the UAE was part of the sweeping visa reforms announced by the UAE