Dubai issued 12m entry visas in 2015: GDRFA

Major General Mohammed Ahmed Al Marri, Director General of the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai (GDRFA), said that the GDRFA issued a total of 59 million different transactions in the first 11 months of this year.

Major General Al Marri added that 42 million passengers used Dubai borders since the beginning of the year.

"We expect this number to increase," he said.

He said that the number of visas issued by GDRFA for nationals who required visa to enter the country is 12 million since the beginning of the year and until November.

Major General Al Marri confirmed that the GDRFA-Dubai put all efforts to develop the work by taking an important initiatives and innovations that include empowering female employees to work from home and also offering flexible working hours and also offering service for elderly and special need people at their home by using Amer car.

Major General Al Marri was speaking during the Rims Risk Forum 2015 Middle East held at Dubai Conrad Hotel and organised by the Risk Management Society in America.

Major General Obaid Mohair Ben Surour, Deputy Director of the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, said that holding such conferences contribute to increase the knowledge about the risks at work and thus reduce the level of these risks.

He said that the lack of knowledge and experience of the individuals working in institutions may affect the effectiveness of the decision-making to confront the risks.

Mary Roth, Executive Director of the Risk Management society in America, spoke about the role of the RIMS in raising awareness in this area.

She said the RIMS, the risk management society, hold it's first-ever RIMS Risk Forum Middle East now in Dubai, as part of efforts to strengthen and support its international network of risk professional.

She said this two-day educational and networking conference provide attendees with an update on the Middle East’s insurance market and will explore practical solutions to help practitioners advance their organisation’s risk management strategies.