Id card requirements to be introduced for expats in dubai in april 2012

From April next year expats in Dubai will need to register for an identification card before they can renew their residency visas, officials have confirmed.

The cards will be needed before they can complete the medical tests needed for visa applications.

Dubai is the last of the United Arab Emirates to impose the new rules. From 01 April all emirates will require expats to produce a valid identity card before beginning visa applications.

‘This condition will be applicable to Dubai in co-ordination with the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs by early next April,' the Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) said in a statement.

Source: Expat Forum