Swiss Visa is not required for Emiratis
Stay Duration: 90 days
Entry Requirements
- The United Arab Emirate citizens are free to visit Switzerland without applying and obtaining a visa if they intend to stay in the country for less than 90 days.
- Passports of visitors must be valid for at least six months after the planned date of departure from Switzerland.
- It is recommended that visitors should provide one blank page of their passports for entry stamps.
- There are no legal requirement for visitors to provide a certificate of vaccination before entering Switzerland.
- All travellers are not required to pay any airport tax upon departing from the airport.
- Absinthe and its imitations and anaesthetic drugs coming from all countries are prohibited.
- Firearms up to two only for hunting and up to two for sporting allowed into Switzerland without a permit if the bearer proves that they will be used in a sports competition or a hunting event.
- Switzerland uses the Central European Standard Time, hence, United Arab Emirates is 3 hours ahead of Switzerland.
- The estimated flight time from Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates to Switzerland is 6 hours, 27 minutes.
- Switzerland is one of the most developed countries in the world, with the highest nominal wealth per adult.
- The climate of Switzerland is generally temperate but can vary greatly between the localities.
- Switzerland inhabitants speak four national languages, mainly German, French in the west, Italian in the south and the fourth national language, Romansh, a Romance language spoken locally in the southeastern trilingual canton of Grison although English is increasingly popular.
- Switzerland has no official state religion though most of the cantons except Geneva and Neuchatel, recognise official churches such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Swiss Reformed Church.
- Coffee in Zurich is the most expensive in the world costing an average CHF3.65 (USD 3.65) in the Coffer Price Index 2016.
- Switzerland is prepared for a nuclear war if there ever was one as there are enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate its entire human population.
- Switzerland is one of the world’s best places to be born, live and be happy according to consistently high rankings in global reports.
- Switzerland has one of the lowest crime rates of industrialised countries despite liberal Swiss gun laws
- Switzerland’s Gotthard tunnel is the longest in the world measuring 57km in length, located 2.3km under the Alps, it is 7km longer than the Channel Tunnel between England and France.
- The Swiss eat more chocolate than any other nation in the world with a record of around 11kg per year.
- In Switzerland, there are two associated plug types, types C and J with a standard supply voltage of 230V and 50Hz.