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Resident Visas
Resident visas are required for anyone planning to live and work in the UAE.Parus Management Consultancies provides legal support at all stages of obtaining a visa, including assistance in filling out and processing necessary documents and compliance with all local legal requirements!
UAE visas
01 Resident visas in the UAE can be divided into the following types:
- Investor/partner visa
- Work Visa
- Dependent Visa
02 Resident visas in the UAE
- To obtain a resident visa, you need to submit an application
- After receiving an entry permit, you need to fly into the country, even if a person has a visa on arrival
- To obtain a resident visa, you need to pass fingerprints, a blood test and fluorography.
- In some emirates, insurance is also required.
- After that, you need to submit all documents and a passport for a visa stamping
Once a visa is approved and an Emirates ID is obtained, a person can rent a property, open a bank account, and apply for visas from other countries to their consulates in the UAE. To obtain a tax resident certificate in the future, this procedure is mandatory.
From the middle of 2022 (in the Dubai emirate – from the beginning of 2023), a visa is not stamped in the passport. If necessary, it can be downloaded from a special UAEICP application.
03 Investor Visa
- Available to shareholders of local companies, as well as companies in free zones;
- Partner/investor visas for shareholders are issued for 2 years;
- Available to property owners over AED 750,000 ($205,408) in the Dubai Emirate
- Visas for property owners are issued for 2 years;
- When opening a bank account, the bank evaluates the source of funds of a person with an investor visa more closely than someone with a work visa.
04 Investor visa for property owners
- For owners of real estate worth 1 million AED or more, a visa is issued for 3 years. The cost of such a visa is $2,750 + processing services
- The first step is to obtain a police clearance certificate in the UAE
- The next step is to obtain an investor license and “block” the property in the database of the Land Department
- Once approved, you need to pass medical tests and fingerprints to obtain an Emirates ID;
- For owners of real estate worth more than 1 million AED and over 55 years old, a visa for 5 years is possible. The cost of such a visa is approximately $ 1,821 + registration services.
- For owners of real estate worth more than 2 million AED, it is possible to obtain a visa for 10 years (Golden Visa). The cost of such a visa is approximately $ 1,460 + registration services.
05 Golden Visa for 10 years
- This visa is issued to those who have close ties with the UAE (owning a real business in the emirate of Dubai or being a representative of one of certain professions; or depositing a certain amount in an account in the UAE for at least 3 years);
- To obtain such a visa, you must provide supporting documents to the immigration service;
- The cost of such a visa is about $ 1,500 + registration services
06 Work visa
- Visa issued by the employer
- All visa fees are borne by the employer
- To obtain such a visa, you need a passport, a photo and a legalized diploma with a translation into Arabic
- Without a diploma, registration for the lowest positions is available – sales, archive clerk, coffee boy, etc.
There is a practice of buying visas, which is illegal and often fraught with consequences
07 Issuance of a visa for family members
- Dependant Visas can be issued by a UAE resident for closest family members – parents, spouses, children
- Daughters can be sponsored until they get married, regardless of age and sons – up to 25 years. Further sponsoring is possible only with the provision of a certificate from a university in the UAE
- For visa opening, it is necessary to submit legalized documents with translation into Arabic, confirming kinship – a marriage/birth certificate;
- It is also necessary to provide proof of rental property – requirements may vary depending on who the person will be sponsoring;
- If the husband sponsors the wife, she can work with a Housewife Visa. But a husband sponsored by his wife is not allowed to work;
- If the mother is the sponsor of the children, then a notarized and legalized letter of no objection from the father is required.
08 What should you pay prior attention to?
- When choosing the type of visa, it is necessary to understand for what reason – just for the status of a resident, to sponsor a family, to open an account, etc.;
- If you plan to sponsor a family in the future, it is necessary to indicate the appropriate salary, open an account and rent a property.
IMPORTANT! If you plan for a filling out a Tax Domicile Certificate in the future, then it is recommended to open a personal account and rent an apartment.
09 UAE citizenship
- Previously, only wives of local citizens could obtain UAE citizenship (if certain conditions are met);
- In January 2021, the provisions of the Citizenship Law were amended, according to which everyone who has been legally residing in the UAE for a long time, has no criminal record, knows the Arabic language well, can obtain UAE citizenship. A person must be nominated for this procedure. To date, there is no clearly defined procedure and criteria
