Dubai residents from these 49 countries can convert their foreign driving licenses to valid local ones

If you are legally residing in Dubai, UAE and you hold a license from any of the below countries, you can easily exchange your foreign-issued license to that of the UAE’s without undergoing rigorous driving examinations.

Here is a list of countries for which the UAE accepts driving licenses:

1. Albania
2. Australia
3. Austria
4. Bahrain
5. Belgium
6. Britain
7. Bulgaria
8. Canada
9. China
10. Cyprus
11. Denmark
12. Estonia
13. Finland
14. France
15. Germany
16. Greece
17. Hong Kong
18. Hungary
19. Iceland
20. Ireland
21. Italy
22. Japan
23. Kuwait
24. Latvia
25. Lithuania
26. Luxembourg
27. Malta
28. Netherlands
29. New Zealand
30. Norway
31. Oman
32. Poland
33. Portugal
34. Qatar
35. Romania
36. Saudi Arabia
37. Serbia
38. Singapore
39. Slovakia
40. Slovenia
41. South Africa
42. South Korea
43. Spain
44. Sweden
45. Switzerland
46. Turkey
47. The Republic of Montenegro
48. Ukraine
49. USA

Below is the list of foreign countries that accept a UAE driver’s license, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC): 

Belgium, Spain, France, USA, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Ireland, Austria, Greece, Sweden, China, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Norway, Latvia, New Zealand, Serbia, South Africa, Finland, Hungary, Luxembourg, Portugal, Lithuania, Singapore, and the UK. 

The 20 Arab countries accepting the Emirati license include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Mauritania, Djibouti, Comoros, Tunisia, Iraq, Palestine, and Algeria.