Approved...cancelled UAE residence visa

[dxbgirl000 0]

My husband's visa was approved yesterday!! After a grueling 6 months of administrative processing!! We are so excited and happy and overcome with emotions!!

I have one question for all the VJers..

He submitted his passport to the Abu Dhabi embassy today, with a cancelled residence visa. Does the US embassy really look into that when stamping on his approved visa? He was currently under the process of joining a new company and changing his work visa over to the new company's and came back home today and found out that his work visa approved today as well (funny how that works!). But obviously he didn't have time to get it stamped onto his passport before he went to the embassy today. The embassy already told him to come back on Thursday to collect his passport, but I just wanted to get answers to this for my own peace of mind.

Thanks in advance!!

[Harsh_77 718]

yes all other valid visa stamped on his passport would be cancelled... in your case the H1 that was not stamped on the passport hence cannot be cancelled but at same time he cannot travel on just approved H1 visa, he has to get it stamped to travel.

[dxbgirl000 0]

I think my explanation wasn't clear..what I meant to say is that his current UAE work visa (which is pretty much his residence visa for UAE) is cancelled. Does the US embassy care whether it's valid or not when they are stamping on his IR1/CR1 visa?

[tru_loves_journey 117]

[beejay 125]

We went through Abu Dhabi - albeit a few years ago. The 'correct' thing to do would be to cancel the residence visa anyway so I don't think it will be a problem.

Congrats!