"Show money" requirement to enter UAE?

UAE imposed new requirements for entering the country, 

Visitors from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nipal are required to have a valid return ticket and confirmed hotel booking.

UAE imposed an other requirement of having SHOW MONEY (AED 2000) while getting entry in country for visitors from pakistan, india, bangladesh and nipal. 

More while UAE tightens the entry rules for Visitors to ensure that JOB HUNTERS are not allowed to get entry in the country on Visit visa. Visit visa means only to enjoy the vacations not to wonder for a job.

  More than 600 Pakistani and Indian visitors returned back to their homes as they didn't fulfill the requirements. 

So if you are planning to have a wonderful stay at Dubai, you have to fulfill theses requirements. 

Airlines warn passengers  

India's national carrier Air India and Indigo airlines have issued notices to passengers and travel agents stating the rules.

"We have been informed by the authority concerned in Dubai that passengers with visit and tourism visas arriving in the emirate without a return ticket will not be permitted entry," read an official circular issued by Air India.

"It is a must for all passengers travelling from India to Dubai on a visit or tourist visa to hold a valid return ticket.

"In absence of the same, we would be constrained to offload the passenger at the check-in point or boarding point in India or refuse entry in Dubai by deporting the passenger at their own cost and expense," added the circular.  

Indigo airline also warned passengers that those travelling without a valid return ticket will be denied entry into Dubai. 

"They shall be deported at their own cost and expenses," said the circular from Indigo.   

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) updated its website saying: "Visitors travelling to the UAE on a visit visa must have at least Dh2,000 as show-money, return ticket and hotel booking/residential address, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter the UAE."  

Meanwhile, Dubai Airports told airlines that they would have to cough up the cost of repatriating tourists who would arrive in the UAE without a confirmed return ticket, according to a circular issued on Thursday.
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