60 Days Single Entry Emirates Visa

The UAE 60-day single entry visa (sometimes searched as a "60-day Dubai visa" or "60-day UAE visit visa") lets you enter the UAE once and stay for up to 60 days — the standard option for extended family visits, longer business trips, and holidays that need more than the usual 30-day window. Here's the short version on cost: the government fee itself is modest, but almost no traveller pays only that. Once you add the mandatory sponsor service charge and, in most packages, travel insurance, a standard 60-day single-entry visa typically costs Indian applicants somewhere between roughly ₹13,000 and ₹21,000, depending on the provider and how the package is put together. This guide covers what the visa is, how the price breaks down, validity and entry rules, required documents, and how to apply.

Why the Price You Pay Is Higher Than the "Official" Fee

The published government fee for a 60-day single-entry visa sits at roughly AED 300–352 plus 5% VAT, depending on whether it's issued through GDRFA (Dubai's own authority) or a different federal channel. Converted to rupees, that's only around ₹8,000–₹9,600 on its own — a figure you'll see quoted on some government-fee-only breakdown pages. But a UAE visit visa legally requires a UAE-based sponsor, typically a licensed tourism company, hotel, or airline, to file the application on your behalf. That sponsor adds a service charge, and most packages also fold in mandatory or recommended travel insurance covering your full 60-day stay.

Add those three components — government fee, sponsor service charge, and insurance — together, and the realistic total for most Indian travellers lands in the ₹13,000–₹21,000 range for a standard single-entry 60-day visa. Quotes significantly below that range are usually missing one of these components, most often insurance or express-processing charges, which then appear separately at checkout.

Single Entry vs Multiple Entry: What You're Actually Paying For

60-day single entry is the standard option for one uninterrupted stay: you enter the UAE once, and the visa is used up the moment you exit. It's the cheaper option and covers the vast majority of family visits, medical trips, and extended leisure stays.

60-day multiple entry allows you to exit and re-enter more than once within the visa's 60-day validity window, counted from your first entry. It costs meaningfully more — often ₹27,000–₹40,000 for Indian applicants — because of a higher government component plus the same service and insurance charges. It's worth the extra cost only if your trip genuinely includes leaving the UAE and returning while the visa is still active, for example a side trip to Oman partway through a long family visit. If you're entering once and flying home at the end, single entry is the correct — and cheaper — choice.

Why Choose 60 Days Over 30 Days

This is a genuinely useful decision point, not just a pricing footnote. A 60-day visa makes sense whenever a 30-day window would leave uncomfortably little margin for the actual purpose of the trip. The most common real-world example: parents or in-laws flying from India to visit adult children living in the UAE. With two travel days built into each end of a 30-day visa, families are often left with barely 25 usable days on the ground — workable, but tight for a trip that may include settling in, family events, or medical appointments. A 60-day visa removes that pressure entirely, and it does so for a price gap that is usually smaller than the cost of applying for a 30-day visa and then extending it in-country once you're already there. If there's real uncertainty about whether a trip will run close to a month, choosing 60 days upfront is almost always the more economical decision once the extension fee is factored in.

It also suits business travellers on longer assignments, students accompanying a parent during an extended visit, and anyone combining tourism with a set of appointments or meetings that can't be neatly compressed into 25–28 usable days.

What's Included (and What Isn't) in the Price

• Government/issuance fee — the base charge set by immigration for the 60-day category.
• VAT — a standard 5% applied to most government fee components.
• Sponsor/service fee — charged by the tourism company or agency filing your application; this is where most of the price difference between providers comes from.
• Travel insurance — often bundled for the full 60-day period; confirm the coverage dates match your visa validity rather than lapsing partway through your stay.
• Express/urgent processing — an optional add-on for approval in 24–48 hours instead of the standard 3–5 working days.
• Small government administrative charges — minor fees such as Knowledge and Innovation Dirham charges, sometimes itemised separately.

A genuinely all-inclusive quote should either list each of these separately or explicitly confirm there's nothing further due before travel.

Validity, Stay Duration and Entry Rules

• Stay duration: Up to 60 days from your date of entry into the UAE.
• Visa validity (time to use it): Typically 60 days from the date of issue, giving you flexibility on exactly when you fly.
• Purpose: Tourism, extended family visits, medical trips, or business meetings — not for paid employment.
• Sponsor requirement: A licensed UAE tourism establishment, hotel, or airline must sponsor the application; this category cannot be self-filed directly with immigration.
• Extension: A 60-day visa can generally be extended once from inside the UAE before it expires. Since extension eligibility, cost, and process differ meaningfully from the original visa fee, we've covered that separately in our visa extension guide rather than duplicating it here.

Documents Required

• Valid passport with at least six months' remaining validity
• One recent passport-size photograph meeting UAE specifications
• Copy of your passport bio page
• Return or onward flight ticket for your overall trip
• For select nationalities, additional identity documentation may apply — not typically required for Indian passport holders applying through standard tourism-sponsor channels

For a complete document checklist across all visa categories, see our detailed documents guide.

Dubai vs UAE: Which Channel Issues Your 60-Day Visa

Many searches for this visa use "Dubai" and "UAE" almost interchangeably, but it's worth understanding that two different immigration channels can issue a version of this visa, with slightly different fee structures.

GDRFA is Dubai's own immigration authority, and it's the channel most Dubai-based hotels, tourism companies, and airlines use to sponsor visitors. Its published 60-day single-entry tourist visa fee sits at roughly AED 300–352 plus 5% VAT, with no separate security deposit for this category.

ICP is the federal authority covering the other emirates, and it sometimes prices the equivalent 60-day product differently. If your sponsor is based outside Dubai, or you're applying through a federal rather than Dubai-specific channel, don't assume the GDRFA figure applies directly — ask your provider which authority is actually issuing your visa, since that determines the exact government fee and, in some cases, the extension rules that apply afterwards.

This distinction matters more for the 60-day category than it does for shorter visas, because extension eligibility in particular can differ between the two channels — one more reason to confirm this upfront with your sponsor rather than assuming every "60-day UAE visa" quote is drawing from the same fee table.

A Worked Cost Example

To make the price breakdown concrete: a typical single-entry 60-day application might look like AED 352 as the base government fee, plus 5% VAT (around AED 18), bringing the government component to roughly AED 370 — about ₹9,600 at recent exchange rates. On top of that, a sponsor's service charge for filing, document review, and support commonly adds another AED 300–450, and bundled travel insurance for the full 60-day period typically adds a further AED 150–250. Add those together and you land close to the AED 850–1,050 mark, which converts to roughly ₹16,000–₹21,000 — squarely inside the range most Indian applicants report paying for a standard 60-day single-entry visa. Express processing, if you choose it, sits on top of this as a separate optional charge rather than replacing any of the components above.

How to Apply Online

1. Choose the right duration and entry type — 60-day single entry for one uninterrupted stay, multiple entry only if you'll genuinely exit and re-enter.
2. Submit your documents through a licensed UAE visa service or travel agent — passport copy, photograph, and travel dates.
3. Pay the total fee — government charge, service fee, and insurance if bundled.
4. Wait for processing — standard processing usually takes 3–5 working days; see our visa processing time guide for a full timeline breakdown, including express options.
5. Receive your e-visa by email — save a digital copy for check-in and arrival, and confirm it's active any time using our visa status check guide.

Processing Time

Standard applications are typically approved within 3–5 working days. Express or urgent processing, where offered, can bring this down to 24–48 hours for an additional charge. Given that 60-day applications are often booked for family visits with fixed flight dates, it's worth applying at least a week ahead, particularly during peak travel periods such as December–January and around Eid, when processing volumes rise.

60-Day vs 30-Day: A Direct Comparison

The two products serve different trip lengths, and the price gap between them is smaller than many travellers expect — often just a few thousand rupees, not double the cost. If your trip could plausibly stretch past three and a half to four weeks once travel days are accounted for, the 60-day option is usually the more sensible starting point rather than risking an in-country extension later. For the full breakdown of 30-day single and multiple entry pricing, see our UAE 30-day visit visa price guide, and for a side-by-side comparison across every duration — 14-day, 30-day, 60-day, and the longer multi-year options — see our complete Emirates visa price guide.

Can You Extend or Renew a UAE 60-Day Visit Visa?

Yes — a 60-day visit visa can generally be extended once from inside the UAE before it expires, subject to the standard extension conditions. There is currently no grace period after expiry, and overstay fines apply from the first day past your permitted stay. Because extension pricing and eligibility genuinely deserve their own explanation rather than a rushed mention here, our visa extension guide covers the full process, current fee, and how many times it can be renewed.