B.R. Shetty gets 10-year visa P
NMC Healthcare founder joins a long list of recipients of the gold card
rominent Indian businessman Dr B.R. Shetty, founder and chairman of NMC Healthcare, Finablr, Neopharma and BRS Ventures, received a 10-year UAE residency visa yesterday.
Shetty drove down to Dubai to collect his passport from the office of Major-General Mohammad Ahmad Al Merri, director-general of GDRFA.
The Abu Dhabi resident, who has lived in the UAE for 46 years, joins a long list of other successful Indian businessmen who have received the longterm residency visa.
Some of the people who have received the new visas include Vasu Shroff, chairman — Regal Group of Companies; Khushi Khatwani, managing director — Khushi Group of companies and Al Nisr Cinema Film; Rizwan Sajan, chairman of Danube; and Yousuf Ali M.A., LuLu Group chairman.
Dr Shetty said he was grateful for the recognition. “The whole process of getting my passport with the new visa was done very swiftly. Everything was so well arranged. Everybody at the immigration was so respectful. This just reaffirms my love for this country and the people of UAE,” Dr Shetty told Gulf News.
“I have spent a lifetime here and to receive the long-term residency visa is indeed a recognition of what I have dreamed of. The visa has been issued to me and my family. I came here with a dream and practically nothing in my pocket. My achievements have happened here in the UAE. Thanks to the government’s policies, ease of running business, this has been possible. When it comes to infrastructure and logistics of running a business, there is no country in the world that can match the UAE,” he said.