Travel guidelines to Dubai from India eased: Here are the brand new necessities

Dubai residence visa holders can now journey from India to Dubai if they’ve the required approval from the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) and may produce unfavorable Covid check outcomes.
These are the one two necessities that travellers should fulfil. Their vaccination standing is not going to be taken into consideration by airline representatives at check-in counters, the Khaleej Times reported.
The GDRFA is a authorities entity that regulates the entry and exit of worldwide travellers from Dubai in addition to the residency of international nationals within the metropolis.

The Dubai authorities had earlier stated that with regard to journey from India, solely passengers with a sound residence visa who’ve acquired two doses of a UAE-approved vaccine are allowed to journey to Dubai. There are 4 vaccines permitted by the UAE authorities — Sinopharm, Pfizer-BioNTech, Sputnik V and Oxford-AstraZeneca.

Dubai had final month introduced rest of journey restrictions from nations, together with India. The UAE, in late April, had closed its borders for travellers from India. This had come within the backdrop of the surge in variety of Covid-19 instances in India throughout the second wave of the pandemic.
Responding to a buyer on Twitter, an Emirates Airline help government on Monday tweeted, “Dubai residence visa holders can travel as long as they present a printout of GDRFA approval, a negative PCR test taken within 48 hours of departure and a negative Rapid PCR test taken 04 hours prior to travel.”

Hi, Dubai residence visa holders can journey so long as they current a printout of GDRFA approval, a unfavorable PCR check taken inside 48 hours of departure and a unfavorable Rapid PCR check taken 04 hours previous to journey. Kindly DM us in case you have extra queries. https://t.co/pPS8nj0zog.
— Emirates Support (@EmiratesSupport) August 9, 2021

“As per instructions issued by civil aviation authorities in Dubai, for passengers to disembark in Dubai, only three documents are required. They need to have a GDRFA approval, negative RT-PCR test result taken 48 hours before departure, and a rapid PCR test result from the airport,” an Air India official within the UAE was quoted as saying by the Khaleej Times.