DUBAI: H5N1 overstep Ministry of Interior official has denied reports of a ban on tourist visas for unskilled workers.
Major General Nasser Al Awadi Al Menhali, Assistant Undersecretary for Naturalisation together with Residency, together with Ports Affairs at the Ministry of Interior, said residency departments across the province were processing catch visa transactions for applicants next “standard procedures”.
The official denied before reports that visitors from simply about Asian countries — such equally India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka together with the Philippines — volition locomote required to submit academy diplomas with applications for tourist, catch together with conference visas to the UAE.
Al Menhali said these reports are false. “Any novel procedures would locomote announced to earth together with posted on the ministry’s website or released to the media yesteryear the Security Information Department,” the tidings way WAM quoted him equally saying.
Earlier, citing an unnamed federal official, local media reported that novel rules for issuing visit, tourist together with conference visas would apply to a for sure category of applicants from generally Asian countries equally business office of an ongoing crackdown on human trafficking together with begging inwards the UAE.
The clampdown, the written report said, was business office of a “new regime” aimed to banking concern friction match the influx of low-paid workers who halt upwards begging on the streets or seat safety threats to citizens together with residents.
The unnamed official said that catch visa applicants must convey plenty coin to comprehend their catch together with obtain wellness insurance.
Al Menhali said such reports came from “unofficial” sources together with were “unreliable”.
Meanwhile, most typing centres inwards Dubai said they were doing employment organisation equally usual.
“We convey non received instructions from the regime well-nigh whatever visa dominion changes,” said Mohammad Ebrahim, managing director of Quality General Services, whose typing centre is visited yesteryear hundreds of applicants daily. “The requirements are the same.”
Typing centres are the get-go halt for catch visa applications, deal to thousands daily.
Business equally usual
“We’re non aware of whatever stricter catch visa rules,” said Nehal Ahmad, managing director of Darwish Shakeel, a Bur Dubai typing centre. “We convey non been told to implement or inquire for additional papers from applicants.”
Nisar of Fenoje Typing Centre, said: “There are no novel restrictions for catch visas,” said Ahmad.
Ahmad, however, has said that stricter rules requiring expatriates to acquaint a Dewa bill, a tenancy contract validated yesteryear the Ejari organisation together with a two-bedroom storey when applying for a residency visa for a next-of-kin or housemaid visa has significantly cutting downward on the break of applications.
“Applications for this category are downward yesteryear xl per cent. Our employment organisation is down. But nosotros convey to adhere to the rules.”