UAE has signed another visa waiver this year with Mexico offering regular passport holders both countries to travel to each other countries.
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, MoFAIC, and the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico have exchanged a diplomatic Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, on visa exemption whereby citizens with regular passports of both countries will be allowed visa-free entry.
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation plans to make the UAE passport one of the five strongest passports in the world by 2021.
The UAE now holds 21st place globally. The country has climbed a remarkable 40 places since 2008, according to the recently released Henley passport index. As of Oct 2018, UAE passport ranks 21st powerful passport in the world with visa free access to 161 countries.
In 2018, UAE received visa exemptions from Ireland, Brazil, China, Ukraine, Uruguay, Canada, Belarus, Honduras, Tonga, Burkina Faso. Currently UAE citizens have access to e-visa (electronic travel authorization) to visit United Kingdom, Canada and allowed 90 day waiver in EU schengen states.
UAE strengthened its passport power after signing a visa-waiver with Russia in July, which is due to come into effect in the coming months.
Gulf news reported early this year “The ministry is tirelessly working to make the Emirati passport one of the top five in the world in line with the UAE Vision 2021,” said Ambassador Ahmad Elham Al Dhaheri, the Assistant Under Secretary for Consular Affairs at MoFAIC,
