{"id":18270,"date":"2020-03-18T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=18270"},"modified":"2020-03-18T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:06:41","slug":"the-uae-suspends-temporarily-visas-upon-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/03\/18\/the-uae-suspends-temporarily-visas-upon-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"The UAE suspends &#8220;temporarily&#8221; visas upon arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UAE has announced a temporary suspension on issuing visas upon arrival for holders of exempted passports, effective 01:00 (UAE local time) on Thursday, the 19th of March, 2020, as part of the precautionary and preventive measures adopted by the country to contain the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holders of diplomatic passports are exempted from this decision, noted the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statement, the decision will apply to holders of exempted passports until a medical clearance process is activated at the departure country as part of global precautionary measures being undertaken to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision comes within the framework of the UAE&#8217;s support for efforts by the international community to contain the virus, the statement concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE has announced a temporary suspension on issuing visas upon arrival for holders of exempted passports, effective 01:00 (UAE local time) on Thursday, the 19th of March, 2020, as part of the precautionary and preventive measures adopted by the country to contain the spread of COVID-19. Holders of diplomatic passports are exempted from this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18275,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18270\/revisions\/18275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}