Gcc Unmarried Visa

GCC countries are planning to launch a European-style Schengen visa past times mid-2014 to permit Gulf-based expats too unusual businessmen to motility easily across the borders of the six-member bloc.
The GCC interior ministers are working on the details of the project, which many believe volition boost tourism too merchandise inwards the region, too cutting out lengthy bureaucratic delays, said Abdul Rahim Hassan Al-Naqi, secretary-general of the GCC Chambers of Commerce too Industry.

“The Gulf countries are currently working on the technical details of the project, peculiarly an automated organization that volition link the fellow member countries.”

Abdul Rahman Al-Zamil, president of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce too Industry, called it a positive development. “The motility is pregnant keeping inwards heed the growing number of foreigners visiting the Gulf states for draw of piece of job organization too tourism.”

He urged GCC officials to speed upwards the project, too said the unmarried visa would facilitate the get of nearly xv 1 1000 1000 unusual workers working inwards the Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia.
Expatriates living too working inwards the GCC stand upwards for 31 part of the Gulf population. Saudi Arabia, which has the most unusual workers despite stringent visa regulations, is abode to nearly ix 1 1000 1000 foreigners.
Asked nearly the benefits of the unmarried visa, Al-Zamil said: “The introduction of the visa volition convey impressive benefits for the Gulf economic scheme too volition boost the income of citizens, mainly inwards the tourism sector.”
Shahir A. Hamid, a local go agent, welcomed the move. “In fact, anyone who has traveled regularly inside the GCC volition convey their ain horror stories nearly the length of fourth dimension they were forced to await at passport control.”

The Gulf states create necessitate to convey an electronic link betwixt the fellow member countries to telephone commutation information too thus remain the implementation of the mutual Gulf tourism visa, he said. “I convey heard that the GCC visa could hold out issued soon. It volition non supplant the fellow member states’ private visas.”

The GCC unmarried visa volition hold out modeled on the Schengen visa. It should hold out noted that citizens of the 26 European Union Schengen countries too the US, UK, Japan, S. Korea too Malaysia create non require visas to come inwards the UAE, Qatar, Sultanate of Oman too Bahrain. However, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia too State of Kuwait even too then require most nationalities to utilize for visas. Those barred from a GCC province for legal reasons or those who convey already been deported would non hold out considered for the unified visa.link