Practical guides to UAE licensing, tax, attestation and visas — written from official sources and reviewed regularly.
Dubai Health publishes the test, the documents and six package prices from AED 270 to AED 1,020. It does not publish the phrase medical typing, or…
Read the guideThirteen permit types with their published validity, a fee range tied to the company's own compliance record, and the whole of the official record on whether…
Read the guideTwo registrations, two authorities, and a third name that usually means the first. GDRFA and ICP publish different fees and different fines for the same card,…
Read the guideFive free zone authorities, read on one day. Only RAKEZ publishes a daily late penalty, only DMCC publishes multi-year terms, and not one of the five…
Read the guideA typing centre fills in a form. An Amer centre is a GDRFA authorisation you can verify in a public register. A document clearing licence is…
Read the guideAED 375,000 makes VAT registration mandatory and AED 187,500 makes it voluntary, but the rule that catches people is the 30 days you have to apply.…
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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