Practical guides to UAE licensing, tax, attestation and visas — written from official sources and reviewed regularly.
The Central Bank publishes what a bank has to identify about a company: five recorded fields, every individual above 25 per cent, and a look-through that…
Read the guideTwo separate rules: a percentage target at 50 employees and a headcount target at 20, in 14 named sectors. The published contributions, the advertising rules and…
Read the guideNo formula is published. Four factors are named, the quota can arrive without an application, and in a free zone the number is a term of…
Read the guideThe offer comes first and the contract must match it. Six contract forms, probation and non-compete as published, and the article of the law that converted…
Read the guideTwo jobs, not one. The federal portal publishes Dubai’s two de-registration phases and exactly one fee; the Commercial Companies Law sets the liquidator, the newspapers and…
Read the guideAED 500 for the request, then it depends. Several fees are charged per party signature rather than per amendment, and above AED 100,000 the fee becomes…
Read the guideCertain jobs, says the federal portal, without publishing which. The order the stamps must come in, the professions that need an exam as well, and two…
Read the guideNot a choice. ICP publishes that a dependant's residence matches the sponsor's permit and cannot exceed it, and the federal portal publishes no dependant duration at…
Read the guideAbu Dhabi is ICP, not GDRFA, and ICP publishes its own income test, its own document list, its own per-year fees and its own fines. Most…
Read the guideICP publishes the conditions for family sponsorship and names parents only in its document list and in the Green Residence entitlement. The AED 20,000 salary, the…
Read the guideNo UAE authority publishes a legend for the strings its status screens return. What ICP, GDRFA Dubai and the UAE Government portal do publish, which authority…
Read the guideThe centre is step two, not step one: gov.uk requires the online application first, then one appointment for fingerprints, a photograph and documents. Your passport comes…
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