MOFA named ordinary passports: advance electronic tourist visa
MOFA marks these nationalities Visa Required rather than Visa Free. The UAE’s all-nationalities self-sponsored five-year tourist visa is applied for and issued electronically, so the nationality-wide least-onerous advance route is normalized as evisa.
- MOFA's Visa Required label establishes that no visa-free nationality default applies. UAE Government guidance makes a self-sponsored five-year tourist visa available to all nationalities, and ICP states that the visa is received by email and downloadable electronically; this supports evisa, not visa_on_arrival or traditional visa_required, under the project taxonomy.
- The five-year route has material eligibility conditions, including the stated funds, UAE-valid health insurance and onward/return ticket. Approval and border admission remain discretionary; it does not establish a no-document or no-fee route.
- The ICP 25 June 2026 announcement creates a separate residence-conditioned 14- or 60-day entry-visa option for India, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Thailand, the Philippines, Kenya, and South Africa. It does not replace the nationality-wide electronic tourist-visa route.
- For that conditional route, the qualifying residence permit must be from the US, an EU Member State, UK, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand or Canada; accompanying family members must meet the stated nationality and relationship conditions.
- No conclusion is drawn about residence, work, study, transit, diplomatic, official, service, emergency, refugee, stateless, travel-document, or other special-document routes.
Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Visa Exemptions for Non-CitizensThe Official Platform of the UAE Government: Tourist visaFederal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs & Port Security: ICP FAQ: Tourist Visa Application and ReceiptFederal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs & Port Security: Six New Nationalities and Six Additional Countries of Residence Added to Eligibility Criteria