General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs - Dubai
Government entity
Department
Local
Dubai
The General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs – Dubai (GDRFAD) is a government service and security department established in October 1971 in the Emirate of Dubai. It provides services in the fields of citizenship, travel documents, entry permits, residency permits, establishment cards, and port access to citizens, residents, visitors, and institutional entities.
- Short name
- GDRFA Dubai
- Emirate
- Dubai
- Type
- Department
- Part of
- Government of Dubai
- Official website
- gdrfad.gov.ae
- Code
- GDRFAD
- Former names
- General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs - Dubai, Central Immigration Department, Port and Border Department
- Founded
- 1971-10
- Established by
- Order of the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum (October 1971); Federal Law No. (6) of 1973; Federal Decree-Law No. (3) of 2017
- Headquarters
- Dubai
- Ownership
- Government
- Annual report
- Open report
- Sector
- Government Services & Residency
- Founders
- Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
- Employees
- 5035 (2020)
- Official accounts
- X
Organisation chart
General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs - DubaiLeadership and executive management
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