UAE Visa for Malaysian, Singaporean, Japanese and South Korean Citizens: 2026 Entry Guide

Citizens of Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea all sit in the UAE's most favourable visa-on-arrival tier, receiving an automatic multiple-entry visit visa stamped on arrival with no advance application, sponsor, or fee, a meaningfully different position from the conditional visa-on-arrival that applies to several other Asian nationalities and depends on holding a qualifying third-country visa first.

For these four nationalities specifically, the entry stamp issued on arrival is typically a 90-day multiple-entry visa valid for six months from the date of issue, allowing a total stay of up to 90 days within that window, renewable at an immigration office within the UAE if you need to extend beyond that without leaving. No pre-registration, online application, or supporting documents beyond a passport valid for at least six months are required at the point of entry.

This automatic entry only covers tourism and short business visits; it does not authorise employment. Taking up a job in the UAE, regardless of your nationality's visa-on-arrival privileges, still requires your employer to sponsor a proper work permit and residence visa through MOHRE, the same as for any other nationality. Working on the visit visa these passport holders receive automatically is treated the same as any other case of working on a visit visa: it's not permitted under UAE labour law, and doing so risks fines for both the individual and the business involved.

If you're planning a longer stay purely for tourism rather than employment, the UAE's 5-year multiple-entry tourist visa, open to all nationalities with no income or property requirement, is worth considering as an alternative to repeated visa-on-arrival stamps if you expect to travel to the UAE frequently over several years; it costs roughly AED 1,800-2,500 and allows stays of up to 90 days per visit with unlimited entries over its validity.