According to a UAE official, the United Arab Emirates, in the coming days, will remove a temporary restriction on issuing visas to Lebanese nationals due to security considerations.
Without further details, the UAE officials said, “Temporary restrictions are in place in response to security concerns, but the temporary restrictions continuously undergo review and are subjected to be lifted to specific categories of visas in the coming days.”
Moreover, Lebanese citizens have been registering in recent weeks that visas for Lebanese outside the UAE were not being granted.
Two travel agents in Lebanon told Reuters that they could not request visas for Lebanese nationals to the UAE through the unique online system. Still, they said they had not received any new instructions or changes to entry requirements.
However, one of the agents said in previous cases that when the UAE suspended visas, the decision was reflected in a technical ban on requesting visas with no formal instructions, as it is happening now.
On Thursday, a helpline for Dubai’s General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs said that Lebanese outside the UAE would temporarily not be granted visas on the instruction of the Interior Ministry.
So far, the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not comment.
