The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has given a stamp of approval to a 10-year golden visa for all PhD holders based in the country.
It also confirms golden visas for graduates who have a minimum of 3.8 grade point average from UAE-accredited universities.
UAE Prime Minister, Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, made this development known in a series of tweets on Sunday.
According to him, the golden visa residency was also extended to specialists in Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data, virology, epidemiology and UAE-based physicians and engineers in the fields of computer science, electronics and programming, electricity and biotechnology.
The long-term residency programme in which top professionals are issued long-term visas, was earlier announced in 2018 by the prime minister but it started in 2019.
Meanwhile, the UAE recently relaxed certain laws criminalizing alcohol consumption and fornication.