You're a bit muddled up here. Tinpots dictatorships of various flavours have required exit visas for years, sometimes even for their own citizens, but Dubai/th

You're a bit muddled up here. Tinpots dictatorships of various flavours have required exit visas for years, sometimes even for their own citizens, but Dubai/the UAE does not and has not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_%28document%29#Exit_visas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_%28document%29#Exit_visas