Every UAE visa your company needs, run as one file

Most people think a visa is one transaction. It is not.

Why visa work goes wrong, and what managing it properly actually means

A UAE residence visa is a chain of separate approvals, issued by different authorities, in a fixed order. An entry permit is one authority. The medical test is another. Emirates ID is another again. Labour side approvals sit with a different department entirely from immigration.

Each step depends on the one before it being correct. Get a name spelled differently on two documents, or let an entry permit lapse while you wait for a medical slot, and you do not lose one step. You lose your place in the chain and pay again for part of it.

That is the whole reason visa management exists as a service. Not because any single step is difficult, but because somebody has to hold the sequence, watch the expiry dates inside it, and catch a mismatch before it reaches a government counter rather than after.

Every visa we manage, and how they differ

Who sponsors whom is the thing that changes everything

People use these names loosely, which causes real problems, because the sponsor determines the documents, the authority and the cost. The distinction below is the one that matters.

Long term residence visas

The Golden Visa and the Green Visa sit outside the sponsorship structure above, because they are granted to the individual on their own merit rather than through a company or a relative. Eligibility works differently and so does the process.

We handle those too. Our UAE Golden Visa page covers who actually qualifies, and if you are unsure which route suits you, that is exactly the conversation to have before you spend anything.

The sequence, and where the waiting actually happens

The order is fixed. The durations are not.

Below is the order every residence visa follows. The steps and the authorities are fixed. The times shown are typical working days for a clean file, and they can move with the authority, the season and the emirate.

Employee visas carry additional labour side steps alongside this sequence. Dependent visas add the sponsor's own documents and any attestation of certificates issued abroad, which commonly takes longer than the visa steps themselves.

What you will be asked to provide

Prepared properly at the start, this is the difference between three weeks and three months

Requirements vary by visa type, emirate and individual case. The list below is what we ask for in most files so we can check everything before anything is submitted.

Anything issued outside the UAE generally needs attestation before it will be accepted. That process runs through the issuing country and then the UAE authorities, and it is the single most common reason a family application takes longer than the family expected. If you know a dependent visa is coming, begin attestation now, not when the rest of the file is ready.

Whether you can sponsor at all

Check this before you spend anything

Not every company can sponsor every visa, and not every license carries visa eligibility. What you can sponsor depends on how your company is licensed and set up, and for family visas it depends on your own circumstances as the sponsor rather than on the business.

This matters commercially, because the wrong license type bought cheaply at the start can leave you unable to sponsor anyone, and correcting it afterwards costs more than choosing correctly would have. We check eligibility before quoting, so you are not sold a package you cannot actually use.

Approximate cost

One number per visa, everything included

The figures below are approximate and include government and authority fees together with our fee. They are for budgeting. Your written quote confirms the exact number for your case before anything begins.

Investor and partner visas

Employee visas

Employee cost depends on your company's MOHRE category, which is set by the ministry rather than by us. Tell us your category and we will confirm which applies to you.

Family and dependent visas

Family cost depends on two things, who is sponsoring and whether the person you are sponsoring is already inside the UAE or still abroad. Applying from inside costs more, because a status change is involved.

Which visas carry a deposit, and how much. A refundable government deposit of AED 5,000 applies when an investor or partner sponsors parents, and AED 3,000 when a partner sponsors a spouse or child. Both amounts are already inside the totals above. Family visas sponsored by an employee carry no deposit, and neither do investor, partner or employee visas themselves.

A deposit is money you get back, not money you spend. So sponsoring your parents is really around AED 2,600 of cost plus a refundable AED 5,000, not AED 7,600 gone. Read any competitor quote with that in mind before you compare the headline numbers.

Medical is not required for children under 18, so a child's figure is usually lower than the number shown.

Why we itemise everything

A client came to us after forming his company elsewhere. The setup fee he paid was fair, around AED 2,000. For one residence visa he was charged AED 10,000, given no breakdown, and told the whole amount was government cost. He was then asked for AED 2,000 more because of a problem with his medical.

There was no problem with his medical. He had been overcharged by roughly AED 10,000, and he had no way of knowing, because nobody had ever shown him which part of the money was a government fee and which part was somebody's margin.

That is why every quote we send is itemised. The figures above are approximate so you can budget, but the quote you actually receive shows you each line, what the government takes and what we charge, so you can see exactly what you are paying for.