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 guideResidents renew in the final six months or after expiry, with a 30-day grace period and then AED 20 a day up to AED 1,000. The…
Read the guideThe salary rule, who counts as family, the sixty-day clock after arrival, the medical test, and why sponsoring parents in Dubai is a different procedure with…
Read the guideSeven routes, not one scheme: the published thresholds for investors, entrepreneurs, specialists, scientists, students and talents — and where the official sources currently disagree.
Read the guideThe sequencing spine: what has to happen before what, what can be done from the UAE, and the three steps people most often get out of…
Read the guideWhat the Schengen, UK, US and Canadian systems actually record about your previous applications and border crossings, and what each one does about an answer that…
Read the guideOne application each, including children: who signs for a minor, whether the family books one appointment or one each, the fee bands, and the four different…
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