Qatar adopts a visa-exemption policy with more than 30 countries, as well as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, to encourage tourism. The existing regulations apply to GCC residence permit holders.

This system reinforces the policy
of openness which has impacts on every aspect of life in the country. Business visas are issued to businessmen who have applied in
advance.

For a tourist to obtain a visa, he or she should fly to the country on Qatar Airways. Fourteen-day visas are usually given at the Immigration Department at Doha International Airport. They are renewable for a further 3 months.

Three types of visas

In order to make Qatar's festivals a success and consequently to activate the role of family, festival, shopping and sports tourism, many exceptional measures are applied to facilitate entry visa arrangements during such events which Qatar hosts all the year round. Visas fall into three categories:


First: Businessmen are granted one week extendable visas. 

Second: Tourists are issued visas for 2 weeks and they can be extended on the condition that a sponsorship is provided by one of the followings:

• Qatar National Hotels Company (or having a reservation at one of the local hotels).
• Accredited Travel Agency.
• A GCC citizen.

Third: non-GCC citizen dependants (companions) of GCC citizens are issued one-month extendable entry visas.

A tourist can get a visa upon arrival at the country's entry points, or from Qatar embassies abroad. He or she can make use of the joint entry visa of Qatar and Oman which allows visits to either country.

However, shall he / she go to a third country, then a new visa must be obtained at  point of entry.

Countries whose citizens are eligible for such joint visa are 33, and they are:

United States of America Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden,  Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Finland, Spain, Monaco, Vatican, Iceland, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

The arrivals, departures through the State's entry points in 2000

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