What you bring
- A licensed company with a free visa place
- The person's passport, valid for 6 more months
- For an employee: job title and salary
Services / Set up and run a company
Visas and residency
A residence visa for an owner, an employee or a family member.
Who does the work
Qantara team
Where a bank, a ministry or a licensed firm decides, we prepare the file and tell you who decides. We do not promise their answer.
Your options
3 ways to do this
- Investor residence visaDecided by: Immigration authority (ICP or GDRFA)
- Employment residence visaDecided by: Labour ministry and immigration authority
- Family residence visaDecided by: Immigration authority (ICP or GDRFA)
Step by step
How it runs, and who holds each step
Every step is on the plan before work starts. You always see whose move it is.
Investor residence visa · Family residence visa
- 1Quote and engagementYou
- 2Documents and eligibility checksYou
- 3Pay the government feesYou
- 4Entry permit or change of statusThe authority
- 5Medical fitness testYou
- 6Emirates ID biometricsYou
- 7Health insurance in placeQantara
- 8Residence visa and Emirates ID issuedThe authority
- 9Hand-over: expiry dates and remindersQantara
Employment residence visa
- 1Quote and engagementYou
- 2Documents and eligibility checksYou
- 3Pay the government feesYou
- 4Work permitThe authority
- 5Entry permit or change of statusThe authority
- 6Medical fitness testYou
- 7Emirates ID biometricsYou
- 8Health insurance in placeQantara
- 9Residence visa and Emirates ID issuedThe authority
- 10Hand-over: expiry dates and remindersQantara
One thread
Where this fits
Before thisA licensed company
This service is for a company that already holds its licence. If yours does not yet, we start with business setup and carry your documents across.
Alongside, in set up and run a companyTo read first
UnderneathThe Qantara platform
This service runs on the same file as every other. Documents you gave us before are already there, and its dates join your one calendar.
Talk to us.
Tell us what you want to set up or keep in order. We will say plainly what we can do and when we open.