Dubai links ID card with visa

posted on 14/12/2011: 601 views

The Emirates Identity Authority (Eida) has revealed that the procedures of identity card would be linked with the residence visa procedures in the Emirate of Dubai as of April 1.

Eida has pointed out that registering in the ID system has become mandatory to get and renew the residence visa in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm Al Qaiwain and Ras Al Khaimah, noting that this will be implemented in Dubai from April in co-ordination with the General Department of Residency and Foreigners' Affairs in Dubai.

Eida announced the opening of six registration centres attached with preventive medicine this month in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah.

The number of the registration centres, which serve the linking project with the preventive medicine, has reached 26 by the end of 2011 and other two centres will be set up later.

The six centres which the Eida is planning to open in two weeks' time will be distributed as follows: Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Al Quoz, Al Satwa and Jafza in Dubai and the Al Jazeera club in Abu Dhabi city.

The registration centre which is attached to the physical fitness centre in Al Quoz in Dubai has a capacity to handle 700 applicants per day in one shift, while the Satwa centre has the capacity to deal with 1,000 persons per day in two shifts.

The Jafza centre has the capacity to deal with 250 persons.

The two centres in Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah have a capacity to handle 600 persons per day in one shift, while the Abu Dhabi centre of the Capital Medical Test Centre has a capacity for 450 persons per day.

The authority noted that work is underway at a rapid pace for the opening of two new centres attached to the medical fitness centres in Muhaisnah and Al Baraha in Dubai in the first quarter of 2012.

According to Eida, the Muhaisnah centre is one of the largest registration centres in the country and has been designed to handle more than 3,000 people per day in three shifts. The authority expects that the linking project in the country will contribute to raising the number of those being registered to more than 22,000 per day. – The Gulf Today

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