UAE ban entry of Manual Passport Holders

I have manual passport and next month travelling with qatar airways.They give me hotel for my stayover.

But i am not sure whether doha immigration allow me to go to my accomodation with manual pssport.i contact Qatar embassy but they are not sure.is anyone have information about it

I guess you are talking about your country...

This is really radiculas... to get the manual passport changed to MRP it takes up to 1 month which means any Pakistani holding MANUAL Passport can not enter UAE even in emergency case what a crap. The UAE govt. should have some flexibility on this law in order to manage some serious and important cases. May be they can start applying this rule for the ones who are directly coming from Pakistan but the ones who are already holding Residency of any of the GCC country should be allowed to enter even with the Manual Passport. I hope our sleeping Embassy do some dialogues with UAE govt. and let the Pakistani GCC residents travel without any problem.

I've entered UAE at the beginning of September coming from U.S all with a hand written passport. No problems at all..

It is indeed a sad news that UAE has declined entry to Pakistanis holding hand written passports.I am sure UAE must have issued notices to foreign ministries of other countries before implementing this order. However it is great news that Pakistani Embassy has the machine for MRPs. I hope its true.

I agree with the learned member that for the time being Pakistani Embassy should establish a channel with Islamabad or any nearest location (e.g. Riyadh)for issuing MRPs.

Once again another riddle to solve for the non-resident Pakistanis in Doha.

Regards.

Our embassy issues machine-readable passwords from home country and send it back to Qatar! Why don't ur embassies do the same!

@ general_disarray: which country are u talking about?!

on the whole, its not encouraging news

forsure

usa may give visa but uae refused to give visa unless you have computerized readable passport applied from 27th august2010

mine is handwritten :(

pak-ique....

whatever are your findings, do share with us please.

lastly, anything can be expected from UAE. :)

They can bring on any rules whatsoever & whenever they want.

and also, the info that USA does not give visa to hand-written passports is WRONG. Last month I got a USA visa although I have manual passport.

Pak embassy has machines arrived but no one to operate them.

:(:(:(

today i will check again with the emirates and air arabia is there any solution or changing.

thanks for all the qlrs for their reply.

HAVE A GOOD DAY

actually the pak embassy has already got the machines here, just waiting for the operators. i visited them last week only and got this information. so hopefully in about a month or two, they will start issuing elctronic passports.

saadm80 its a great news if pakistan embassy will have machine soon.

this rule is applied from 27th august 2010 and its applied for all the manual handwriting passport whenever those issued and whatever is validation. if the passport is manual handwriten, they cannot get the UAE visa.

i went to pakistani embassy and meet the counslar he said they will be having the machines soon...

i have checked with pakistani embassy and they said they dont have machine for MRP passport, if you want, you go to pakistan and make their new passports, this is the answer from the pakistan embassy.

i think just wait for the offical take on this matter, though pakistan embassy would start issue electronic passports

it could be a recommendation not a rule.

No country in the world should accept a handwritten passport, especially from one of the worst terrorist-filled countries on earth.

GEt your facts right, I know a few people with manually written passports who just got their 10 yr multiple US visa.

If USA doesn't accept handwritten passports, how did my friends recently got US visa as Nepal has not yet started issuing MRP? Ditto for UAE. Is this rule for certain countries only?

Does this also apply in the case of on arrival visas & what if the passport is still valid ????

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has started accepting Bangladeshi manual passports again two weeks after imposing a restriction.

"The UAE authorities have started to allow manual passports along with machine-readable passports (MRP) from Sunday [July 11]," said Md Moniruzzaman, Bangladesh's Labour Counsellor in Abu Dhabi.

The country had stopped issuing visas on manual passports and started allowing only MRPs since the last week of June stating two types of passports confusing, said an official of Bangladesh high commission there.

Bangladeshi workers there had to face troubles during the time as the UAE authorities asked them to get MRPs when they went to renew their residence permits.

The recruiting agencies here had expressed concern, as thousands of workers seeking jobs in the UAE would also suffer unless the situation was addressed immediately.

Over such development, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni convened a meeting of 12 manpower-importing countries' envoys in Dhaka on July 4 and asked them to accept both kinds of passport.

She said Bangladesh had just started issuing MRPs and it would take some time to replace the manual passports.

Md Moniruzzaman said Bangladesh Ambassador to the UAE Nazmul Quaunine also held several meetings with the UAE Department of Naturalisation and Residency.

The issue of allowing manual passports is very important, as the UAE hired over 2.5 lakh Bangladeshi workers last year-- the largest recruitment by a country. Over 7 lakh Bangladeshis are now working there.

Besides, the issue of how to incorporate a legal guardian's name in the MRP is still unsettled.

The Middle Eastern countries want that the MRP bear the names of the worker's legal guardian but the MRPs issued by the Department of Immigration and Passports lack the information.

As the envoys of the manpower importing countries raised the issue during their meeting with the foreign minister, the government decided to incorporate the information in the MRP.

India puts the name of a legal guardian in the last page of the MRP.

On July 15, MRP Project Director Brig Gen Refayet Ullah told The Daily Star that they had seen MRPs of some other countries and now are waiting for feedback from the labour-importing countries before making the final decision.

"So far, we have opinions from two countries," added Refayet Ullah.

Ali Haider Chowdhury, secretary general of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira), said it appears that the problem is temporarily solved but it is imperative that the government issues MRPs for all overseas jobseekers.

i think most of the embassies in qatar, they dont have technology for machine readable passports, they are issueing passports but manual handwriting.

embassies should get notification to act in order to new law... but only few embassies have the mechanism of computerized passport over here...

LINK, please!~

I am surprised that the Embassy is not up to date on this..

Machine Readable Passport... i guess they made this mandatory now too in the UAE... old passports are valid as long as they are not expired... the thing is, some countries like the US, they made it mandatory to those entering the territory to have MRP

In short notice.....?????

s_isale call to any travel and tour agency and tell them you want UAE visa and you have manual handwriting passport, they will confirm you. i have called emirates office and air arabia office to buy and process the visas for me.

Can you please quote the source of this news...any link?

this rule is applied from 27th august 2010 and its applied for all the manual handwriting passport whenever those issued and whatever is validation. if the passport is manual handwriten, they cannot get the UAE visa.

provide your source

When did they launch this rule ?

Is this rule only for newly issued hand-written passports or those issued few years back and still valid also comes under this?