Day of Your Application
What you should anticipate on the day of your interview
What you should anticipate on the day of your interview.
Applicants should report to the white cabin (located in the parking lot on the north side of the Dubai World Trade Center) at their scheduled appointment time on the day of the interview. After waiting in the white cabin, applicants will be escorted into the World Trade Centre by consulate security guards. The Consulate General staff strives to provide service as quickly as possible; however, applicants can expect to wait until the early afternoon for their visa interviews and should plan accordingly.
Applicants will not be allowed to enter the Consulate with electronic devices, including mobile telephones. It is preferable for applicants to arrive without their mobile telephones; if this is not possible, they will be stored in a secure location and returned to the applicant once the interviewing process is completed. While every effort is made to interview applicants in the order in which they arrive at the Consulate, this is not always possible. Complete and accurate application materials will decrease waiting times for most applicants.
When you enter the Consulate General, your application documents will be examined and entered into the computer system. You will be given a number and then proceed to a window for fingerprinting and afterwards asked to have a seat. Different applications require different amounts of processing time, so numbers are not called in numerical order.
Once your number is called for your interview, a Consular Officer will speak with you about your intended travel and review any additional documents that the officer requests. An average interview will last for approximately 3-5 minutes.
At the end of your interview, the Consular Officer will tell you that your application is:
• Approved;
• Pending, contingent on you providing additional information;
• Pending, contingent on administrative processing; or
• Refused.
We advise that you do not make any non-refundable travel arrangements until the visa has been issued in your passport.