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Visit visas and UAE residency

Everything on this site filed under visit visas — what changed, when it starts, and where we read it.

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Visit visas

Five-year tourist visa: the cost

The UAE's five-year multiple-entry tourist visa asks for a bank balance of $4,000 over six months and about Dh3,713 in fees, most of it a Dh3,000 guarantee. Each visit is 90 days, extendable once, with 180 days a year in total. Dubai applications go through the GDRFA Dubai site.

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Visit visas

Visa on arrival: the two prices

An Indian, Filipino or other passport holder with a residence permit or visa from a listed country can get a UAE visa at the airport: 14 days for Dh172.50 or 60 days for Dh422.50. The UAE issued 73,551 of them in the first half of 2026. What the counter asks for, and what it does not.

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Visit visas

Sponsoring a visitor: the salary floors

GDRFA Dubai has set out what a UAE resident must earn to bring someone over: Dh4,000 for a parent or child, Dh8,000 for a sibling, Dh15,000 for a friend.

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Visit visas

Tourist visas inside 48 hours

GDRFA confirmed a two-working-day turnaround on the 30- and 60-day single-entry UAE tourist visas it issues in Dubai. It is a processing change, not a new visa type.