Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alternatively, they may obtain an online visa through Smart Service or airlines. All visitors must have a passport valid for at least 6 months, or 3 months if holding a residence permit. Citizens of Gulf Cooperation Council countries need only show a government-issued ID card. UAE entry stamp from Dubai International Airport
Dubai Plus is a city smart card program for government and semi-government employees in Dubai. It was announced on May 12, 2015, by the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai and the Dubai Government Human Resources Department (DGHR) together with National Plus and Network International, a payment service provider .
Citizens and residents inside the UAE must register into the program. Infants born in the UAE are issued a card at birth, though biometrics (including fingerprint and retina scan) are only captured after the card holder turns 15. The card costs AED 285 for one year validity or AED 385 for two year validity for UAE Citizens.
Compulsory for citizens 14 and older. Before 2016, the national identity card was a blue soft paper booklet like the typical international passport. In 2016, the government began issuing credit-card-sized biometric identity cards (a/k/a "internal passport" or "passport card") containing an RFID chip.
The card number is typically embossed on the front of a payment card, and is encoded on the magnetic stripe and chip, but may also be imprinted on the back of the card. The payment card number differs from the Business Identifier Code (BIC/ISO 9362, a normalized code—also known as Business Identifier Code, Bank International Code or SWIFT ...
The Nol Card (Arabic: نول, lit. fare, stylized as nol) is an electronic ticketing card developed by Hong Kong–based company Octopus Cards Limited [1] that was released for all modes of public transport services in Dubai in August 2009. A Nol Card is a credit-card-sized stored-value contactless smartcard that can hold prepaid funds to pay ...
The vast majority of transactions made when a customer uses a card to make a payment in a store use ISO 8583 at some point in the communication chain, as do transactions made at ATMs. In particular, the Mastercard , Visa and Verve networks base their authorization communications on the ISO 8583 standard, as do many other institutions and networks.
One of the key elements of the center is a privately held financial exchange that opened in September 2005 as Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) but was rebranded as NASDAQ Dubai in 2008. The trading hours of NASDAQ Dubai are from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. GMT), from Sunday to Thursday. [10]