Practical guides to UAE licensing, tax, attestation and visas — written from official sources and reviewed regularly.
AED 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 guideThe landlord is obliged to register the tenancy and the tenant is the one who files it. What Ejari gates, what it costs, and the two…
Read the guideThe establishment card creates your company file with the immigration authority. The three documents that share the name, the Dubai fee and fine, and why no…
Read the guideA PRO handles a company's government paperwork across MOHRE, ICP, GDRFA and DET. No law requires you to appoint one - but the deadlines and fines…
Read the guideA foreign degree needs attesting before it can be used for UAE employment, and the chain runs in a fixed order across two countries. Steps, official…
Read the guideA Dubai mainland trade licence lasts one year and must be renewed in the final month before it expires. What the law says, what renewal costs,…
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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