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UAE Announces Multiple Entry Visa for Qatar’s FIFA World Cup Fans with Hayya Card

The program grants a visa for Hayya card holders to enter and stay for a total period of up to 90 days. (WAM)
The program grants a visa for Hayya card holders to enter and stay for a total period of up to 90 days. (WAM)
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UAE Announces Multiple Entry Visa for Qatar’s FIFA World Cup Fans with Hayya Card

The program grants a visa for Hayya card holders to enter and stay for a total period of up to 90 days. (WAM)
The program grants a visa for Hayya card holders to enter and stay for a total period of up to 90 days. (WAM)

The United Arab Emirates has announced an integrated program supporting holders of the “Hayya” card issued by FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, which will take place this year from November 20 to December 18.

According to a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat, the program comes in line with the UAE’s goal to support Qatar in hosting the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

Through the Multiple-Entry Tourist Visa options, the UAE will be hosting the world cup fans, allowing them to enter UAE multiple times over a period of 90 days.

The Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Port Security explained that the program includes granting a multiple-entry visa to the UAE for a total period of up to 90 days from the date of issuance of this visa.

The visa fee is reduced to AED100 ($27.2) and will be paid once for the whole period.

The Authority indicated that holders of Hayya card can enter the UAE by applying for this visa starting November 1, and it will allow them to enter the country several times during the validity period.

This visa can be extended for another 90 days according to the conditions, procedures and the normal fees followed in the current visa system in the country.

Citizens of visa-exempt countries are excluded from these procedures, as they can enter and stay in the UAE according to the current procedures.

Hayya card holders can apply to the Multiple-Entry Tourist Visa through the website, fill the required data and documents and pay the applicable fees.

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Gauff Building Momentum in Wuhan, US Open Finalist Pegula Out

Coco Gauff of the USA hits a return to Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk during their women's singles match at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan, China's Hubei province on October 10, 2024. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)
Coco Gauff of the USA hits a return to Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk during their women's singles match at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan, China's Hubei province on October 10, 2024. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)
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Gauff Building Momentum in Wuhan, US Open Finalist Pegula Out

Coco Gauff of the USA hits a return to Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk during their women's singles match at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan, China's Hubei province on October 10, 2024. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)
Coco Gauff of the USA hits a return to Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk during their women's singles match at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan, China's Hubei province on October 10, 2024. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)

Coco Gauff advanced to the quarterfinals of the Wuhan Open with a 6-4, 6-1 rout of 17th-ranked Marta Kostyuk in just over an hour on Thursday.
It was the fourth-ranked Gauff's eighth consecutive win on the WTA Tour's Asian swing after the American won the China Open last week which moved her back into the top five in the rankings.
Gauff fired two aces and broke the Ukrainian's serve five times — for the loss of one of her own — as she clinched a one-sided match and extended her lead in their head-to-head series to 3-1.
“I’m really happy with how I played today,” Gauff said. “It was a pretty straightforward match. Marta and I always have some good battles. Today I was able to get through in straight sets.”
Next for Gauff is No. 45-ranked Magda Linette, who continued her impressive form this week by beating eighth-seeded Daria Kasatkina 6-2, 6-3, The Associated Press reported.
“Yeah, so she’s a tough opponent,” Gauff said of Linette. "We haven’t played since (the US Open in 2021). I really don’t know what to expect. But just from watching her play, she’s been playing a great couple of matches here in Wuhan.
"I expect it to be a tough match. She’s not an easy opponent to play."
Gauff will be the only American left in the draw after third-ranked Jessica Pegula and tour rookie Hailey Baptiste both lost.
Pegula, the US Open finalist, had a tough afternoon against the 51st-ranked Wang Xinyu of China, who was dominant on serve throughout and clinched a 6-3, 7-5 win to make her first WTA 1000 quarterfinal.
Wang had won their only previous meeting in three sets in the second round at Wimbledon earlier this year and got off to a fast start here by breaking Pegula twice in the opening set to take the lead.
After her first win over a top 10 player in the previous round, Baptiste was routed 6-1, 6-1 by Ekaterina Alexandrova.
The 22-year-old American was broken six times by the No. 33-ranked Russian who clinched her quarterfinal berth against Wang in 63 minutes
Later, second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka looked to maintain her undefeated record at the Wuhan Open when she plays Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan in her third-round match.
A win for the Belarussian will allow her to regain top spot in the rankings from Iga Swiatek, who is absent from the women's tour Asian swing citing personal reasons and fatigue.
Sabalenka, the reigning US Open champion, is 13-0 in Wuhan after winning the title on her first appearance in 2018 and defending her crown in 2019 before the tournament took a five-year hiatus from the calendar due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.