{"id":43944,"date":"2018-05-10T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/oman-oblegchil-vizovyi-rejim.html"},"modified":"2018-05-10T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:01:05","slug":"oman-oblegchil-vizovyi-rejim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/oman-oblegchil-vizovyi-rejim","title":{"rendered":"Oman Eases Visa Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Since May 7, Oman has eased the visa regime for citizens of Russia, China and Iran; now tourists from these countries can come to the sultanate on a tourist visa without confirmation from a local sponsor, Interfax reports, citing the Times of Oman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/d0c0df78256cf787eea4f976f7102b35.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;Citizens of Iran, Russia and China <!--more-->have been added to the list of nationalities that can enter the sultanate on a tourist visa without confirmation from a local sponsor,\u201d the publication writes, citing the Royal Oman Police (ROP).<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to the newspaper, visas will be issued to tourists upon arrival at the country&#039;s airport.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was previously reported that the Omani authorities had already taken steps to ease the visa regime for Russians. Thus, in 2017, the country simplified the visa regime for Russian citizens, but the rule only applied to holders of citizenship, residence permits or holders of valid visas from the Schengen countries, Great Britain, the USA, Australia or Canada. Other Russians were required to obtain a visa in advance through a sponsor in Oman, which could be a citizen of this state or a tour operator registered in the country, in order to enter the sultanate.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/74429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oman has eased visa requirements for citizens of Russia, China, and Iran since May 7. Tourists from these countries can now travel to the Sultanate with a tourist visa without a visa.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,24],"class_list":["post-43944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti","tag-oman","tag-ssha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}