If a Dubai hotel sponsors my visa am I required to stay there?

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You need to check with the hotel, not immigration.

The hotel can report you as absconded and this will cause you all kinds of trouble when you exit the country.

To be perfectly safe, I would check-in to the hotel that had the reservation, and then check-out later for my other hotel.

There are rumors that hotels do report guests to immigration - but this is a post-fact reporting issue and as far as I know, there is no live link between the hotel and immigration.

The reason I mention this is because frequently I have flown in for a day trip where I don't book a hotel and this has caused no problems with immigration.

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