Duration of stay for tourist visa?
By speedmarks •
Help!!! My friend came to Qatar last 29 August using a tourist visa. He is on his way to change his tourist visa to rp but he is quite concerned that his rp may not come out before the Eid holidays. They were telling that theres no work for immigration for 10 days due to Eid holidays that might start next Friday or Saturday. How long will he be able to stay in Qatar? Is there a way to extend his tourist visa?
Dear Vinith,
The travel agency that we took the tourist visit visa told us that tourist visas cannot be extended beyond 30 days of stay. They offered us to make an exit to Bahrain and go back to Doha for a new 30-day tourist visa. However, we opted that to transfer his tourist visa to business visa to the company that hired him and without going out of the country. It will be easy for him to transfer from business visa to RP because his sponsor is his company.
dear speedmark,
did you try it out...please tell me also...since mine is alos the same case with my wife..i hoped that her RP could be done in this month but it willd efinitly get extended. So I am also worried about the same. Any clue?
Hello friend, I do not think Tourist Visa is extendable beyond 1 month. Because, 6 months back I have arranged Tourist Visa for one of my relatives to come to Qatar through Cleopatra Travels. At the time of applying Visa itself, PRO of Travel Agent had warned that it was strictly unextendable. The simple logic is if there is any chance for renewal, the process must start from sponsor i.e. Travel Agent and defnitely not by us. Anyway, you may enquire at Immigration at Garaffa. So my advice is better not to take any risk or chances of overstay since the penalties are hefty. Good luck.
Thanks. He really needs that info. He is quite afraid that he will go exit if his RP does not come out before the Eid holidays. He was only issued a 30 day tourist visit.
YES, you need to go to the Immigration Building # 4, Madinah Khalifa. First of all, ask the typist (outside Building # 4) to type ur tourist visa extention application, then go to building # 4 with that application and original passport. They will charge u QR 100/- for one month visa extention.