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 method rather than a checklist: build against the deciding mission’s own list, one claim per document, matching names, recency windows, and what actually needs attesting.
Read the guideHaving an SNS number and having the SNS pay are two different things. Where to register, what to take, the three states your record can be…
Read the guideFour documents, an income test written as a multiple rather than a euro figure, and three requirements that are not required at all. The residence visa…
Read the guideRecognition is mandatory in a regulated profession and optional in a non-regulated one. The legal right to a procedure, the three-month statutory decision period, anabin versus…
Read the guideSix points is the pass mark, and the table is written into the Residence Act itself. The two preconditions, all twelve criteria, the provision that switches…
Read the guideApplying to the wrong consulate, booking flights early, an arranged bank balance, insurance below the specification: the errors we see most often from the UAE, and…
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