UAE Residency

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The UAE has no permanent residency in the usual sense; residency here is tied to a sponsor — an employer, a property, an investment or a place of study. What it does offer is the Golden Visa, valid ten years, and the Green Visa, valid five, neither of which needs an employer, and both renewable. This section covers the requirements, documents, costs and timelines of each route separately, along with the things people usually discover only after a rejection: how a free-zone visa differs from a mainland one, where the medical test and Emirates ID fit in, and why residency is not the same thing as tax residency.