How to import a car from Oman to UAE 

How to import a car from Oman to UAE 

UAE is a country that is favorite destination of each expat that may be from Asia or from GCC country. As UAE is the business hub for all the expats and support all new talents and foriegn investors. There are many growing industries in UAE , more and more construction projects and many other job opportunities.

If you are also a resident of Oman and want to move to UAE due to any job purpose or any family matter then a most important situation you will face is the import of your car into UAE that could be lengthy process and if you don’t know about the process then it may be difficult to perform all the procedure in time.

So here we will describe the full procedure if importing a car from Oman to UAE that may be your old car or recently bought car that you want to import to UAE then follow the following procedure:

Procedure in Oman:

These steps you will follow in Oman before leaving for UAE:

1. * First of all you have to go to the ROP Royal Oman police vehicle registration department in Seeb.
2. * The best time to visit the office will be as early as possible the opening time is 7:30 so be ready to reach there on time.
3. * The next you require to take with yourself some copies of vehicle export form because in the office the typist may make mistake which will create problem for you so be ready with every thing before you leave do the office.
4. * The vehicle export form is typed in Arabic and it is dual colored that is white on top and yellow on bottom.
5. * For the vehicle export form you have to head over to ghubra on sultan Qaboos road. You can park any where outside the typing center where you will ask to type the form in Arabic.
6. * The form in printers electronically with them they will fill and print its copies. The cost of this form is RO 1.
7. * Another important document required is passport and car mulkiya that is provided to each car owner.
8. * On the vehicle export form there is a space for the insurance details so you have to leave this space for the insurance people.
9. * Once you have typed the form then you should leave to your insurance company and you will inform that you want to export your car and tell them to fill the form.
10. * The insurance company will then give you a 10 days time period to export your car with in this period so you should take Care of the time while exporting the car don’t be late because you have to register in Abu Dhabi also.
11. * Once you have cleared the insurance part now you have to drive to the ROP office and then go to the inspection area where your car will be inspected.
12. * When you enter the inspection area you will find that the inspection area is divided into three sections:

• * Heavy vehicle
• * Light vehicles
• * Accident inspection

You have to queue up in the line of your vehicle and then wait for your turn the officers will check the details in vehicle export form the engine number that it match the car or not.

1. * Once all the inspection is done then the officer will fill the form and hand over it to you.
2. * Now this form is to taken to the main ROP and show all the documents to the officer on the last desk they will examin it and stamp over it.
3. * At the reception you will receive a number to process your car export.
4. * The next step is to remove your license plate from your car if you can no do this by yourself then there are guys to help you and will remove the plate for you.
5. * Then you will go to section A with your number plate and all the documents.
6. * When your number is called you have to go and hand over the documents to the officer he will ask for confirmation that who is the person on the mulkiya card and also the resident card.
7. * The officer will then fill in the form details and will ask for the old number plate that they will keep with them and you will be given a blue number plate that is export number plate.
8. * For this purpose the officer will ask a fee of RO 9.500 and keep in mind that they accept card not cash.
9. * So also don’t forget to get your credit it debit card with you because there may ba a problem at payment time.
10. * After that you will go to the reception and here you will be given a export certificate that will need you to enter your personal information such as address and phone number etc.
11. * Once your payment is done then at desk 5 you will be given a export certificate that you can use to export a car at various points.
12. * Then you have to take all the documents and the new plate your car drive it to the license fixing area where they will fix the new license plate to your car and giving you the permission to export your car.
13. * The total cost to spent will be RO 14.500 and a lot of time to be spent because if you start from 9:00 and finished and it will be finished at 2:00.

* Documents required at ROP:

• Car Mulkiya is required in this regard as we have mentioned above.
• Passport will be needed valid for at least 6 months.
• Resident Card copy that is obvious.
• Debit/Credit Card is needed because no cash is accepted.

Procedure in UAE:

That was the procedure to be done in Oman then its time to get in the UAE and just watch that what will be the procedure in UAE that we are discussing below so keep in mind each and every step. But don’t worry its not too complicated if you concentrated on the requirements and the documents requirements needed for this process and also each step let’s start:

Requirements for importing car into UAE:

If you are a car lover and wants to bring your desired car that you have seen in Oman and want to have this car in UAE then you should be having all these requirements full filled.

* Valid residence visa:

In UAE each residence has a valid resident visa to reside there legally then you will also be required with the valid residence visa first of all to bring a car into UAE.

The UAE residence visa act as a special card that will ensure that you are a legal resident of UAE its mean that UAE only allows those people who are bringing car along with them having a resident visa.

* No objection certificate NOC:

Those who are planning to bring their car imported in UAE then there is also another certificate that tiu have to bring with in the vehicle export certificate that is to get a no objection certificate from the RTA that is roads and transport authority.

You might be thinking that for what the NOC is needed then you should be cleared that this is the thumb up providing a green signal that you can import the car into UAE.

The NOC will be issued to on thee basis if your car is complying with all the requirements needed by the cars in UAE so that there may be no difficulty while driving the car on UAE roads. So having the NOC is the good think that will make the import process more smoother and easier.

So when you are planning to import a car in UAE then you should be ready with the resident visa and NOC so that you could not face any problem.

Required documents in UAE for car import:

Here we will describe a list of required documents that you will need to arrange when you are impeding a car from Oman to UAE:

1. * Copy of your UAE driver’s license is required that is obvious.
2. * Copy of your passport and UAE residence visa is required that is must.
3. * Original vehicle registration documents from the country you’re exporting the car from Oman to UAE.
4. * Export certificate from the country of origin that from which the car is to be imported that is Oman.
5. * Certificate of conformity or vehicle specification sheet is also required.
6. * Copy of the bill of lading or airway bill that will prove that you have legally imported the car.

These are the basic requirements and steps that you should follow when you are planning to import a car to UAE from Oman.

Good luck for completing all the steps that you should follow while importing a car into UAE and wish you to have a car of your desire in UAE and explore the roads of UAE with your imported blue plate car.