UAE eVisa Photo & Passport Requirements

Provide a recent colour photo taken within the last 6 months on a plain white background, showing your full face from the front with a neutral expression, eyes open and mouth closed. Your head and the top of your shoulders should fill about 70 to 80% of the frame, with no other people or objects, and no heavy shadows, filters or glare. The standard size is 43 by 55 mm, uploaded as a JPEG or PNG between 200 and 600 KB.

Glasses should be removed, as reflections or tinted lenses are a common cause of rejection. A head covering is acceptable only when worn for religious reasons, and even then your full face, from the bottom of the chin to the top of the forehead, must remain clearly visible.

Yes. A phone photo is fine as long as it is sharp, well lit and taken against a plain white wall with your face centred and filling most of the frame. Ask someone to take it rather than using a selfie, keep the camera at eye level, and avoid filters. We validate the photo against the UAE specification before submission.

Your passport must be valid for at least 6 months from your date of entry into the UAE. If it expires sooner, renew it before applying, because the application will not be approved on a passport with insufficient validity.

Your passport must be machine-readable, so both a valid machine-readable passport (MRP) and a biometric e-passport are accepted. Handwritten or badly damaged passports are not accepted for a UAE visa.

Your passport should be undamaged with a clean, fully readable photo page. Your photo, personal details and the two machine-readable lines at the bottom must be clear in your upload, with no glare, no fingers over the text and nothing cut off. Renew first if yours is torn or heavily worn.

Apply with, and travel on, the passport of your eligible nationality, and enter and leave the UAE on the same passport you used to apply. Your eligibility and visa are tied to that passport, so keep it consistent from application through entry and exit.

No. When you upload your passport, our built-in reader captures your name, passport number, date of birth and expiry, and auto-fills the form for you. You simply confirm the details are correct, which speeds up the application and cuts down on typing errors.

Before we submit your application, our team reviews your photo and passport against the UAE specification. If something is off, such as a coloured background or a cut-off photo page, we message you on WhatsApp to fix it. This pre-check is a big reason the applications we handle run around a 98% approval rate.