GGB The corridor is well travelled in both directions, so the honest question is not whether but how. A brand is ready when the home unit runs profitably without the founder in it daily, the economics have been re-based on local GCC costs rather than converted from the home P&L, and the system is documented well enough that a stranger could open to standard. Home-market success is the entry ticket, not the qualification.
From Franchising from India to the GCC: The Corridor Readiness Guide — the full reading, with the method behind this answer.