FORMALITIES TO GET PASSPORT AND VISA FOR YOUR BABY BORN IN UAE

FORMALITIES TO GET PASSPORT AND VISA FOR YOUR BABY BORN IN UAE

GETTING PASSPORT AND VISA FOR YOUR BABY IN UAE

Registering your baby’s birth and getting its passport and visa are easy.  The process involves

BIRTH NOTIFICATION

Once your child has been born, the hospital will alert the Health Authority. They will enter all the relevant details online and wait for the Health Authority to return the paperwork.

This can take between 24 and 48 hours. Once the documents from the Health Authority have been sent to the hospital, they will be issued to the parents. There are no fees owed to the hospital for this.

IMMUNISATION BOOK

This will be issued by the hospital. This can be used to get a temporary health card for the baby to undergo all the necessary vaccination.

BIRTH CERTIFICATE

The process for the birth certificate must be completed within 30 days of the baby is born. The birth certificate is issued by the Ministry of Health in Arabic.  It can then be issued in English as well at the same time. Both copies will also require attestation from the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs as well. 

Documents Required

• Attested and translated marriage certificate          Original + Copy
• Father’s Passport, Visa, Emirates ID                     Original + Copy
• Mother’s Passport, Visa, Emirates ID                    Original + Copy
• Birth notification from the hospital
• Discharge summary from the hospital

Submit all of the above documents to the Ministry of Health and Prevention to issue a birth certificate. The birth certificate issued will be in Arabic, but you can get it printed in English. Each copy of the birth certificate will cost AED 50.

ATTESTATION OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE

You must then get both Arabic and English copies of the birth certificate attested at any Tasheel department across the UAE. The attestation will cost you AED 150.

INFROM YOUR INSURANCE PROVIDER

Birth of your child should be informed to the health insurance provider within 30 days of birth. A fine of AED 100 will be charged upon no notification to the insurance provider.

PASSPORT PROCESSING

The passport and visa of the child has to be get done in 120 days of child birth. The child will adopt the nationality of his father if mother and father are two different nationalities

The documents required for visa and emirates id

• Visa application form as prepared by the typing office
• Original and a copy of the newborn's attested birth certificate
• Newborn's passport
• Three passport sized photos of the newborn
• Original and a copy of the attested marriage certificate
• Passport copy of the sponsor
• Copy of an employment contract for the sponsor or a salary certificate
• Tenancy Contract registered through the Ejari online system of Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA)
• Fee (which varies)

FEE BREAKDOWN