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 guideA regulated profession is protected by statute, and a foreign qualification needs recognition before you may work in it. The four forms of regulation, why the…
Read the guideYour main destination picks the country, and that mission picks the centre. Germany publishes the whole arrangement including a 24-hour waitlist e-mail; France names no centre…
Read the guideOnly the sponsor can cancel a UAE residence visa, and the labour contract goes first. ICP publishes four grace periods, GDRFA Dubai publishes one flat figure,…
Read the guideAED 3,000 with employer-provided housing or AED 4,000 without. ICP's exact wording, the Ejari rule GDRFA adds in Dubai, and the visit-visa income thresholds that get…
Read the guideICP and GDRFA publish different document lists, and ICP's own lists differ between its cards. The requirements stage by stage, quoted from each authority, with the…
Read the guideRoutine US visa processing is not available in the UAE. Three of the mission's own pages say different things, and the one people quote most is…
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