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 guideWhether you need a visa or a CAN$7 eTA follows your passport, not your Emirates ID. The fees, biometrics, the personalised document checklist, and the minimum…
Read the guideThe 214(b) presumption, the DS-160, the USD 185 fee, who must now attend an interview, the security rules at both UAE posts, and what happens if…
Read the guideThe permitted activities, the prohibited ones, permitted paid engagements, study limits, and the rule that catches frequent visitors, with the current fees and who needs only…
Read the guideThe 180 days are a moving window, not a fixed block. How the count works under Article 6 of the Schengen Borders Code, what the Entry/Exit…
Read the guideThe visa lets you enter; the permit is applied for from inside Portugal, within four months. Who AIMA is, what the law does and does not…
Read the guidePortuguese law sets out exactly what a bank must collect from you, and it expressly allows for an applicant with no Portuguese tax number. What it…
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