UAE’S NEW 5-YEAR VISA SCHEME

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• Prior to this, tourists could get single or multiple-entry visas for a duration of 30 or 90 days. In the new five-year multiple-entry system, visa holders may be allowed to stay for six months at a stretch. The details of the scheme are yet to be announced.
  
  
• The country’s Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship will be implementing the decision.
  
  
• Travellers from Africa, some South American countries, Arab states outside the Gulf, and European states from outside the European Union and the former Soviet Union previously needed visas.