Built for the Gulf counter, where every passport is different.
Travel agencies in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf serve the most passport-diverse customers anywhere. SimpleVisa resolves requirements per passport for 190+ destinations, files 80+ end to end, and turns a mixed-nationality group into one order with one payment at your price.
Why visa work is heavier here than anywhere.
The counter serves a hundred nationalities
Gulf residents overwhelmingly carry someone else's passport: Indian, Filipino, Egyptian, Pakistani, British. The same trip to the same destination needs different documents at every seat in the shop, and the agent is expected to know all of them.
Among the heaviest caseloads on earth
Residents of Saudi Arabia lodged around 554,000 Schengen applications in 2025 and UAE residents nearly 300,000 more. France's consulate in Riyadh alone handled 146,000, one of the five busiest Schengen posts in the world. Source: European Commission Schengen visa statistics, 2025.
Nearly one in four bounced
About 24% of Schengen applications lodged in the UAE were refused in 2025. Behind most refusals is a file problem: wrong documents, wrong timing, wrong consulate. Exactly the part a good agency gets paid to prevent.
The group is the unit of Gulf travel
Families, Umrah departures and school trips arrive at the counter together and split immediately on paperwork: the Indian passports need one document, the Egyptian ones another, the British none. One Desk order holds them all: requirements resolved per passport on the full itinerary, one payment at your retail price, and each traveler uploads their own documents from their phone afterwards.
How a counter handles a group →From the walk-in counter to the super-app.
Desk
Passport and destination in, exact requirement out, with the consular fee at cost and your retail price on top. Your agents file 80+ electronic destinations end to end without touching a government portal.
One order for the whole party
Umrah groups, school trips and family parties travel on mixed passports. One order resolves every traveler's requirement on the full itinerary, settles in one payment, and chases each straggler's photo for you.
Elements and the API
OTAs and super-apps drop a requirements check into the booking flow. Sell through our checkout on revenue share, or run your own gateway on a platform licence with your brand on everything.
Dubai, Riyadh and Doha on one invoice
Per-branch wallets and roles, group-level reporting, and pooled volume so every branch is billed at the network's tier.
How networks run it →Passport scans never sit in your shop
Travelers upload directly to us; your systems never store a document image. EU-hosted, minimal retention, and a public trust center.
Where traveler documents live →What Gulf agencies ask first.
Our customers mostly need Schengen. What do you actually do for them?
The file, not the appointment. Requirements per passport and route tell your customer exactly which documents, fees and timelines apply; that is where the refusal risk actually lives. The appointment at VFS or the consulate stays theirs. The 80+ destinations with electronic processes we file completely.
Can the customer pay in dirhams or riyals?
Yes: they pay your agency, at your price, on your own terminal, in whatever currency your till runs. You are the merchant of record on Desk. The prepaid wallet behind it settles in USD or EUR with automatic top-up.
We run branches in three countries. One account or three?
One. Head office signs once, each branch gets its own wallet, roles and reporting line, and volume pools across the group, so every branch pays the network's rate.
What does it cost?
Consular fees at cost, never marked up, plus a processing fee from $29 per application, falling to $19 past 500 a month. Seats are free; the Network add-on is $29 per branch per month once you run more than one.
The next group through the door files as one order.
Open an account, fund a wallet, and every passport at your counter gets its answer from day one. Seats are free and there is no monthly minimum.