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Expired visa: Overstayers in UAE to be fined from Oct 11

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October 11, 2020

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Dubai, Oct 11: Dubai residents, whose visas expired between March 1 and July 12, will be fined from today after the deadline to renew the visa or exit the country ended on October 10. After the deadline, overstay fines will apply, according to Amer Centre employees and visa consultants in the emirate.

Following the UAE Cabinet's decision to cancel all resolutions about the automatic extension of visas, the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (ICA) started receiving visa renewal applications on July 12.

Amer Centre employees and visa consultants had told Khaleej Times that the grace period for residents whose visas expired between March 1 and July 12 would end on October 10.

"If a visa has expired mid-April and has not been renewed with the same sponsor, the holder has until October 10 to renew it," said an Amer call centre employee.

"If the visa has been cancelled, like usual, visa-holders have a month to cancel their visa and apply for an employment visa...from their new employer or exit the country. They also have the option to change to a tourist visa, however, that is subject to approvals by the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs," the staff added.

Overstay fine of Dh25 per day

Overstayers shall be fined Dh125 on the first day and Dh25 per day from the second day onwards. Malik Naseer, operations manager at Cozmo Travels, said many of their visa applicants are Indians, followed by Pakistanis, Egyptians, and Filipinos. "Majority of them are jobseekers."

Rashid Abbas, managing director of Arooha Travels, added: "Those whose visas were cancelled between March 1 and July 12 were predominantly people who lost their jobs amid the pandemic situation. Many of them have changed their status to three-month tourist visas...as they find it safer to remain in the UAE."

Meanwhile, Raheesh Babu, chief operating officer of Musafir Travels, said they are not seeing a rush for renewals at the moment. "I imagine it is because many have already changed their visa status or have returned to their home countries."

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November 22,2025

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The Israeli regime’s forces have killed two Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip every day since the ceasefire began in early October, UNICEF has warned.

The UN children’s agency said on Friday that Israeli forces continue to attack Palestinians in Gaza even though the agreement was meant to stop the killing.

“Since 11 October, while the ceasefire has been in effect, at least 67 children have been killed in conflict-related incidents in the Gaza Strip. Dozens more have been injured. That is an average of almost two children killed every day since the ceasefire took effect,” UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said in Geneva, reminding that each number in the statistics represents a child whose life had ended violently.

“These are not statistics,” he said. “Each child had a story, a family, and a future that was stolen from them.”

Data from Palestinian factions, human rights groups, and government bodies recorded since the US-brokered ceasefire deal went into effect on October 10 show that Israeli forces have carried out numerous attacks, each constituting a separate ceasefire violation.

UNICEF teams say they repeatedly continue to witness heart-wrenching scenes of fearful Palestinian children sleeping outdoors with amputated limbs, while others live as orphans in flooded, makeshift shelters.

“I saw this myself in August. There is no safe place for them. The world cannot normalize their suffering,” Pires said, lamenting that the UN could “do a lot more if the aid that is really needed was entering faster.”

The UNICEF spokesperson warned that with the advent of winter, the risks for hundreds of thousands of displaced children will increase.

He warned, “The stakes are incredibly high” for children as winter acts as a threat multiplier, where children have no heating, no insulation, and few blankets. He said respiratory infections rise.

“Too many children have already paid the highest price,” Pires said. “Too many are still paying it, even under a ceasefire. The world promised them it would stop and that we would protect them.”

“Now we must act like it,” the UNICEF spokesperson added.

Since the Israeli regime launched its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, it has killed nearly 70,000 people in the territory, most of them women and children, and injured over 170,000 more, while reducing most of the structures in the enclave to rubble.

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