ISLAMABAD: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recently fortified its visa policy for Pakistanis holding official and diplomatic passports.
According to the new set of rules official passport holders
are required to wait
longer than usual to get visas, contrary to the previous norms which offered priority to such passport holders. This recent revelation came as a written reply from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs UAE.
According to it, UAE authorities have adopted a stringent policy for gran
ting visas to the holders of official passports from Pakistan.
“Pakistani passport holders, both diplomatic and off
icial, have been facing a stringent clearance regime for the past three years before visas a
re issued,” stated the written reply.
Media reports regarding issuance of multiple and unauthorised passports to applicants on the basis of forged documents noticed by local authorities seem to have influenced the UAE visa policy towards Pakistani official passport holders, the reply added.
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