Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Mona Biswarupa Mohanty, who is an artist from Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, has received the UAE’s coveted ‘Golden visa” or long-term residence visa for 10 years.
According to the reports, the long-term cultural visa is granted to talented people in the fields of arts, creative industries, literature and culture, heritage history and cognitive studies. Where it helps to enable foreigners to live, work and study in the West Asian country without the need of a national sponsor and with 100 per cent ownership of their business on the UAE’s mainland.
The report further added that in 2019, the UAE implemented the new system, in which these visas are issued for five or 10 years and renewed automatically.
Mona Biswarupa Mohanty is the first Odia artist to receive the UAE’s golden visa. Since 2007, she has been living in Dubai where she worked in the academic field and in the design industry for around 8 years. She is a self-employed art practitioner registered with the Dubai Economic Department. She has a diploma in fine arts from the School of Art and Crafts, Baripada, apart from bachelors and masters degrees.
