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Car Export from UAE / into Oman, feedback appreciated

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 10 September 2013 - 14:23
Dear Mai2013, Thx for your valuable info.As i am following your way to export my car from abudhabi,i need more information regarding the goods from my home.Is it allowed to bring our personal householding things while export car or is there any limitation of weight to bring with the car.Also if it is allowed will it be scanned in all customs office and please clear my doubts. thx again Arun
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 18 April 2013 - 11:31
Thank you, debliz!!!
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 13 April 2013 - 01:30
Hi there Mai2013, You're pretty much correct in everything you say. Except that we had freezone visas in Dubai which we kept until very recently which meant that we had residence visas in both Oman and Dubai. However, back to your post ... Point 8) We always had UAE/Omani insurance for our car when we lived in Dubai because we made so many visits to Oman. When you de-register your car in Dubai and get export plates you have to get insurance for wherever you are exporting your vehicle to which will also cover your car for the period you are in Dubai before you actually take your car across the border. Ask at the express desk - export plates and insurance can be valid for different periods ... we just did ours for one week as that was all we needed. Once we'd imported the car to Oman we arranged insurance with the same company we'd used in Dubai (which gave us no claims) before taking it to the Registration office opposite the airport. The reason we use this office is that it's only about 15 minutes from where we live and much closer to the other one you mentioned. Good luck and welcome to Muscat - hope things go easily for you and your family move. PS: What we found to be so refreshing here in Muscat is that that the authorities try and make things easy despite the occasional language barrier.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 10 April 2013 - 12:44
Dear Ladies, dear Debliz (who has provided most the input for this in earlier threads), since I and my family are moving to Muscat in May and plan on importing our car, I have just put together a list of the required steps as I could gather from previous threads here and on other forums. Please check if I got something wrong or if this mirrors your experience. And if you are also relocating, please use this info :-) Thank you so much and hope to touch base in Muscat soon! Ciao, Mai Visa 1)Obtain Oman Visa approval forms 2)Cancel UAE visa -> 30 days to leave the country 3)Enter Oman by air 4)Go to Immigration Department opposite the airport to get the actual visa stamped in your passports and to get your ID cards which will involve being finger printed and having a photo taken for your ID card 5)women have to go to a separate section to hand in the visa approval slip and pay for the visa, get the receipt and then go to the general office where the visa is stamped -> approx 1 hour 6)Obtain Omani Residency, Omani ID with Civil numbers, 7)Obtain Omani driving licences -> give home country driving license rather than UAE driving license, need photos with blue background for that Car de-registration in UAE and Export 8)Obtain Omani car insurance –> before the vehicle is there? Best to switch from UAE to Omani branch of the same vehicle insurance? 9)Fly back to UAE 10)Clear loans at the bank if applicable 11)go to Bur Dubai Police at interchange 4 on SZR 12)have car tested if necessary (after how much time since last test?) 13)pay parking or speeding fines if any 14)Park at Police Station, take off registration plates, go inside express service desk. They fill out the forms, take car registration plates and arrange for the export plates to be fitted -> approx. AED170 15)In the meantime go to the insurance office around the corner to get insurance to drive on the export plates as normal insurance doesn't apply once on export plates -> Approx AED100 16)Get the export plates fixed to the car 17)Park at Hatta border crossing leaving UAE to get our exit stamps 18)If police sees export plates, they want to see the export papers, driving licences and passports - making sure there are no uncleared parking, speeding fines or whatever before the car left the country Car Import 19)At Dhofar Insurance office just before you get to the Omani Customs centre between Hatta and Wajaja - opposite the petrol station - get insurance for the car (even though UAE insurance may cover to drive in Oman, it does not cover for export) 20)As you get to the Oman Customs checkpoint there's a coffee shop on the left. Go into the coffee shop and get your export papers, insurance and any other papers you can think of ready. The guy in the shop knows what needs to be photocopied and will do it for you 21)Proceed to the customs checkpoint. The officer there will take the photocopies (and probably ask to look at the originals) and direct you to park in an area off to the right. He or another officer will then come and check the car - see what's in the boot 22)Go to the Omani Customs building as directed, with all the paperwork and, if possible, get help from someone with Arabic language proficiency. Take the paperwork to one of the desks for import duty as per valuation table (seven year old Landcruiser approx. AED2,000). 23)(Some people have gone to the trouble of getting the import duty certificate before exporting their cars - from what I've seen on various forums most have still had to pay import duty at Customs when bringing their cars into Oman. 24)This latter stage at the Omani Customs took around 20 minutes and that was it. We'd exported our car. Car registration in Oman 25)Vehicle registration and driving licence offices are opposite the airport some way down on the right hand side once you've passed the Golden Tulip hotel 26)first get full insurance (if possible with same insurance company as in UAE which can confirm with UAE branch that there are no open claims) -> or see point 8 before importing the car? 27)Testing & Registration Centre opposite the airport to get your car tested and get Oman plates 28)get a ticket at the Vehicle Registering complex opposite the airport, go to the desk and get told to have the car tested 29)to the testing area, pass the test, then back to the first office and get another ticket 30)get paper work done, pay and receive registration card 31)Then off to the place where they make the number plates, take the car and plates to the area where a couple of very helpful gentlemen fitted them to the car -> or take your own tools? 32)Apparently registration can be done much faster (if you already have your insurance in place) on Al Nahdah Road where all the big garage/sales centres are if you go early in the morning