Dubai: Dubai-based Filipinos visiting Manila may face a tough time coming back to the UAE, as the Philippine authorities have tightened screening of workers who came here on a visit visa and later found employment. Such workers are considered “undocumented” and must produce a number of papers proving their employment, failing which would bar them [...]

Dubai: New visa requirements for Canadians to visit the UAE have made doing business costlier, a Canadian provincial minister said here yesterday, adding that she hoped the situation was temporary. She was commenting on the UAE’s decision to scrap the preferential treatment for Canadians who earlier got free visas on arrival. The UAE requires Canadian [...]

Dubai: The Calgary Herald, the home-town newspaper for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, launched a bitter and vitrilolic attack on the UAE for its decision to impose visit visa regulations on Canadians. “Canada gets the message that you’re mad,” the paper said. “Now, act like adults, drop your petty, vindictive behaviour, and sit down in [...]

Dubai: The Calgary Herald, the home-town newspaper for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, launched a bitter and vitrilolic attack on the UAE for its decision to impose visit visa regulations on Canadians. “Canada gets the message that you’re mad,” the paper said. “Now, act like adults, drop your petty, vindictive behaviour, and sit down in [...]

Group had run away from their sponsors more than four years ago Dubai: A group of African women have been arrested in Dubai for working here illegally, A Ministry of the Interior spokesman said. A senior member of the Dubai General Departments for Residency and Foreigners Affairs told News Wednesday that a group of Ethiopian [...]

Residency departments will not renew the residence visas of expatriates if they are wanted by police for financial obligations, Interior Ministry officials said Dubai: Residency departments will not renew the residence visas of expatriates if they are wanted by police for financial obligations, Interior Ministry officials said. Residency visas of expatriates, their relatives and their [...]

UAE stops issuing new visas to Pakistanis holding handwritten passports Dhabi: The UAE has stopped issuing visas to Pakistanis holding handwritten passports, a senior official told Gulf News on Tuesday. The decision will affect Pakistanis who plan to travel to the UAE and Pakistani expatriates already in the country who plan to apply for a [...]

Desperate illegal Indian worker overstaying in Dubai for nearly five years seeks jail so that he can be deported Dubai: A desperate Indian worker who claims he cannot get an outpass is roaming the streets of Bur Dubai in the hope that he will be arrested and then deported. Echoing what could well be the [...]