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Visa & mobility
Residence in the Emirates, arranged
Why Welcome To Emirates
The file, the appointments and the follow-up — not just the advice
We support you at every stage of your move, taking care of the procedures themselves, whether that is a work visa or a residence visa. Every part of the transition is handled: the file, the medical, the biometrics, the stamping, and the same again for a spouse and children where they are coming too.
Behind that is expertise in visas, work permits, residence cards, Golden Visas and international passports.
- One platform from the first assessment to the Emirates ID in your hand.
- A straight answer on where you stand before you spend anything — including when the answer is that another route suits you better today.
- The family file run alongside yours, not after it.
What we do
Residence, work and the documents a life here rests on
Six things that decide whether a move works. We take each of them from the first question to the document in your hand.
Golden Visa
Long-term residence granted on the strength of what you bring rather than who employs you. The criteria are specific and read strictly, so we assess your own position against them before anything is submitted.
- Investors
- Entrepreneurs
- Property holders
- Specialised talent
- Family included
Residence visa
The permit behind a tenancy, a bank account, a school place and a driving licence. It can come through a company you own, a property you hold, or a family member who sponsors you.
- Company sponsorship
- Property route
- Family sponsorship
- Medical and biometrics
- Stamping
Work permits
An employment permit ties residence to a role and an employer. It matters as much to a company hiring its first people here as to the person arriving.
- Labour formalities
- Employment contracts
- Company registrations
- Permits for your team
Emirates ID
The card daily life runs on. Without it a bank will not open an account, a landlord will not hand over keys and a clinic will not register you. We take it from application to collection.
- Application
- Biometrics appointment
- Collection
- Renewals
The family behind you
A spouse and children are sponsored on the back of your own residence, and the school place usually cannot be confirmed until that is done. We run the two files together.
- Spouse sponsorship
- Children
- Documents and attestations
- Timed to the school term
Second nationality
A long-horizon decision, not a formality: it touches travel, tax residence, schooling and what your children inherit. We set out what is genuinely open to you and what each programme does not do.
- Programme assessment
- What it does not do
- Family included
- An honest no
Find out where you stand before you spend anything
Tell us your nationality, what you do and what you hold, and we will tell you which routes are actually open to you and which of them we would take. That assessment comes before any file is opened.
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From the first question to the card in your hand
Each step exists because the one after it cannot be done without it. Most of the trouble people have with a move comes from doing them out of order.
Where you actually stand
Your position read against the current requirements, route by route. This is where we tell you if the route you had in mind is not the one we would take, and why.
The route, and who sponsors it
Residence has to hang on something — a company, a property, an employer, a family member, or the Golden Visa criteria. Choosing that is the decision the rest of the file depends on.
The file
Documents, translations and attestations, assembled and checked before submission rather than corrected afterwards. Yours and your family’s together.
Entry permit, medical and biometrics
The appointments are booked and attended in the right order. We follow the file through each stage rather than handing you a reference number.
Stamping, Emirates ID and what follows
The residence stamped, the Emirates ID collected, and then the things that were waiting on it: the bank account, the tenancy, the school place, the driving licence.
Choosing the right route
Three routes, and the question each one answers
Most people arrive certain they need the Golden Visa. Often they do; often a residence visa through their own company gets them living here sooner and costs less to hold. Before we recommend one, we look at five things:
- Your nationality and the documents you hold
- What you do, and who pays you for it
- Whether you are bringing a company, buying property, or being employed
- Who is coming with you
- How long you intend to stay, and what you want afterwards
Then we tell you which route we would open and what it does and does not give you. The table is what that recommendation is drawn from — not a substitute for it, because eligibility is judged on the facts of a file.
| Point of comparison | Golden Visa | Residence visa | Work permit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suits someone who | Brings investment, property, a business or standing in a field the country wants. | Owns a company here, holds property, or is sponsored by a family member already resident. | Is being hired by a UAE employer, or is a company bringing its own people in. |
| What it rests on | What you bring, assessed against published criteria. | Whatever sponsors it — your company, your property, or your family. | A role and an employer, and the company’s own registrations behind it. |
| If that changes | It does not depend on a job, which is the whole point of it. | It stands or falls with the sponsor: sell the company or the property and the permit follows. | It ends with the employment, and a new role means a new permit. |
| The family | Covered on the same grant. | Sponsored on the back of yours, once yours is issued. | Sponsored on the back of yours, subject to the role. |
Eligibility criteria, durations, fees and processing times are set by the authorities, differ by emirate and by category, and change. We read them against your own file and tell you where you stand, rather than publishing figures here that would be out of date or wrong for most readers.
Golden Visa
Why people ask for it by name
The Golden Visa is a long-stay residence aimed at investors, entrepreneurs and specialised professionals. What people value in it is not the status: it is that residential security stops depending on an employer, and that it covers a family on the same grant.
It also lets you settle for the long term in a region with real economic pull, and to move on new opportunities without renegotiating your right to be here first.
- Long-term residential security that does not hang on a job
- A family covered on the same grant
- The freedom to change what you do without changing your right to stay
International mobility
A passport to new opportunities
For clients who need more than residence, we advise on acquiring a further nationality and passport for themselves and their family. Where residence in the Emirates already gives you most of what you are after, we say so instead of selling you a passport.
Freedom to travel
Reach destinations around the world without arranging an additional visa for each of them.
Greater opportunities
A favourable legal and tax framework, and a wider set of places you may live and work.
Family security
A future for your family that includes access to new countries, systems and opportunities.
Questions
What we are asked before the first meeting
Do I qualify for the Golden Visa?
That is the first thing we look at, and it is answered on the facts of your own file rather than from a checklist. The categories are specific and read strictly. We tell you where you stand before anything is submitted — including when the honest answer is that a residence visa through your own company would get you living here sooner.
How long does it take, and what does it cost?
Both are set by the authorities, differ by category and by emirate, and change. Once we know which route we are taking we give you the timetable and the costs for your own case in writing. We do not publish figures here that would be wrong for most people reading them.
Can my spouse and children come with me?
Yes. A Golden Visa covers the family on the same grant; on the other routes they are sponsored on the back of your own residence once it is issued. We run the family file alongside yours rather than after it, because a school place usually cannot be confirmed until it is done.
I have a job offer here. Is that all I need?
It is the basis of a work permit, and the permit is what makes the residence. The employer’s own registrations have to be in place before anyone can be brought in, which is where most first hires stall. We handle the formalities on both sides.
What is the Emirates ID for, exactly?
Nearly everything. A bank will not open an account without it, a landlord will not hand over keys and a clinic will not register you. It follows the residence permit and it is the document people most often underestimate, which is why we take it from application through to collection.
Do I need a second passport?
Usually not, and we will say so. It is a long-horizon decision that touches travel, tax residence, schooling and inheritance. Where it is genuinely the right answer we set out the programmes open to you and what each one does not do; where residence here already covers what you want, we tell you that instead.
Immigration rules change, and every file is judged on its own facts. Nothing on this page is a promise of an outcome or a substitute for advice on your own situation — we tell you where you stand before you spend anything.