Originally Posted by
mcs26891
Anyone have experience applying for a transit visa through dubai connect? I got a generic automatic email that they received my information but nothing else. I assume I will hear back next when approved, but not sure when I should call if I dont hear back. Four days before my flight?
Haven’t done Dubai Connect in a while, but a visa is not issued and there is nothing to apply for.
When you check in at your point of origin you’ll be handed three copies Dubai Connect vouchers that look a bit like boarding passes.
On arrival at Dubai, just before immigration at T3, to the right, there’s a Dubai Connect desk where you present your passport and the three vouchers. Two vouchers, and your passport are returned to you, and you’re presented with a slip to show at immigration. Immigration will use the slip as a visa of sorts, which you have to keep for exit if I remember correctly, and you’ll then be let into the UAE.
If you’re in F or J, there will be chauffeur drive to your hotel, and back to the airport. You’ll hand the third voucher to the hotel.
Essentially emirates is taking responsibility for you. The only constraint is your bags are checked through to destination, and emirates chooses where you stay (separate hotels for Y and premium classes).