Travel advisory: UAE Embassy in Cairo alerts tourists of new $25 entry visa fee to Egypt

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Arab and Gulf tourists will soon have to pay a new visa fee to enter Egypt, according to a decision published in the Egyptian government gazette.  Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3rWte4O  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #UAEnews #visa #Egypt

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00:00ARAB AND GULF TOURISTS WILL SOON HAVE TO PAY A NEW VISA FEE TO ENTER EGYPT, ACCORDING TO

00:07A DECISION PUBLISHED IN THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT-GAZETTE.

00:10The UAE Embassy in Cairo has announced that as of March 21, tourists from Arab nations

00:14and GCC countries will be required to pay a visa fee of $25, which is equivalent to

00:2092 dirhams.

00:22The travel advisory from the UAE Embassy was made following the decision by Interior Minister

00:27Mahmoud Tawfiq regarding visa fees for citizens of Arab countries visiting Egypt, which was

00:32published in the Egyptian Government-Gazette.

00:35The decision exempted nations that had previously signed exemption agreements with Egypt, although

00:39it did not identify the countries.

00:41Earlier in June 2020, Egypt said it imposed an entry visa fee on Gulf states, namely Saudi

00:47Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain.

00:50While the decision was not implemented at the time, it was eventually cancelled and

00:54postponed until now.

00:55A previous decision had also imposed entry visa fees on Qatari citizens, which has been

00:59effective since November 2017.

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