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Freelance permit · residency · Emirates ID

Build your freelance career in the UAE. Find your route in 3 questions.

A freelance permit or licence in your own name — with residency, medical and Emirates ID when you need them. One all-inclusive price, in writing, before you pay.

  • No hidden fees
  • Up to 10 activities
  • Sponsor your family
  • Instalments with Tabby & Tamara
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4.9from clients 12,000+ clients assisted in the UAE

Check what you need

Three answers and your details. A consultant replies with the route and the figure in writing.

01Do you live in the UAE now?
02Will you invoice clients?
03Family to sponsor?
Your route Freelance permit & residency AED 11,800 Government fee + Trivup fee included, confirmed in writing after the consultation
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Nothing is filed and nothing is payable until you agree a written quote. Approval is decided by the authorities, never by us, and is not guaranteed.

0%personal income tax on what you earn
1 or 2 yearsresidence visa, renewable
10–12working days, typical file
12,000+clients assisted in the UAE

One name, two applications.

“Freelance visa” is shorthand for a permit and a residence visa applied for together — the right to work, and the right to stay. We hold a Dubai documents-clearing licence, which is what allows a private firm to prepare and lodge those applications for a client.

The freelance permit

Permit to work as a freelancer, activities you choose, and invoices in your own name.

The residence visa

Your right to live here — sponsored by the permit you hold rather than by an employer.

The Emirates ID

What makes residency usable — a bank account, a tenancy, sponsoring your family.

Up to 10 activities

Chosen from the published list against your real invoices, so the permit covers the work you actually do.

Start with the route that fits your circumstances.

One fact settles most of it: whether you already hold UAE residency. Each price is all-inclusive and confirmed in writing before anything is filed.

Route 01For anyone already resident here

Freelance permit only

For anyone who already holds UAE residency. You have the status; what is missing is the permit that lets you trade.

What this covers

  • One-year freelance permit, in your own name
  • Up to 10 activities, agreed against your invoices
  • Trade name reservation
  • Registered address & P.O. Box
  • Structure and shareholding guidance
  • Bank introduction and documents

Not included: residence visa, medical or Emirates ID — you keep the residency you already hold.

AED 5,500AED 5,500Government fee + Trivup fee included
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Route 02Most engagementsArriving, or leaving an employer

Freelance permit & residency

What most people mean by a freelance visa: the permit and a self-sponsored residence visa, filed as one engagement.

What this covers

  • Everything in Route 01
  • Self-sponsored residence visa, one or two years
  • Entry permit, or status change without leaving
  • Medical and Emirates ID biometrics
  • Up to 10 activities, agreed against your invoices
  • Family sponsorship guidance

The permit is what sponsors the visa, so both are filed as one engagement.

AED 11,800AED 11,800Government fee + Trivup fee included
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Route 03Residency without invoicing

Residency & work permit

A two-year residence visa rather than a one-year one, for people who intend to stay and would rather not repeat this annually.

What this covers

  • Two-year residence visa and work permit
  • Sponsored through a MOHRE-licensed agency
  • Entry permit, or status change without leaving
  • Medical and Emirates ID biometrics
  • Renewal timing and absence rules explained
  • Bank introduction and documents

Not included: a freelance permit in your own name — the agency employs and sponsors you.

AED 12,500AED 12,500Government fee + Trivup fee included
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Every route is quoted individually in writing after a consultation, and our fee is stated separately from the charges the authorities set. Prices include our fee and the authorities’ charges for the route as described.

Nothing is payable, and nothing is filed, until the written quote is agreed Instalments through Tabby & Tamara

Four stages. You are needed in two.

Every application is decided by the authority that issues it; our part is preparing and lodging them.

1Discuss your circumstances

What status you hold today, and what you invoice for. This decides how much of the process applies to you at all.

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2Send your documents

Activities agreed against your real invoices, trade name reserved, then the file lodged with the free-zone authority.

You
3Status change, or entry permit

Already here, your status changes in country with no exit run. Arriving from abroad, you travel in on the entry permit instead.

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4Medical, then Emirates ID

The residence visa is stamped and the Emirates ID issued. From that point a bank will open an account for you.

You

Whose name is your right to be here in?

On the day it matters
An employer sponsors youthe status sits with the company
You sponsor yourselfpermit in your name, visa against it
A contract ends
If an employer sponsors youNotice period, cancellation, and a new sponsor to find.
If you sponsor yourselfNothing changes. Your right to be here is not tied to one client or one employer.
A client asks for an invoice
If an employer sponsors youAn employment visa does not allow it at all.
If you sponsor yourselfA trade name and licence number a client’s accounts payable will accept.
The family wants to join you
If an employer sponsors youSubject to the employer’s position and the authority’s conditions.
If you sponsor yourselfSponsor your spouse and children, and in many cases parents, on the evidence the authority asks for.
The bank opens an account
If an employer sponsors youPersonal only, and it follows the job.
If you sponsor yourselfPersonal and business both become possible — neither is opened without residency and an Emirates ID behind it.
It is due for renewal
If an employer sponsors youOn the employer’s cycle, not yours.
If you sponsor yourselfOne year or two, renewable — the two-year option exists mainly to halve how often you do this.

Explore the activities your permit can carry.

Up to ten, chosen from the published list and agreed against the work you really invoice for. Tell us what you do and we match it.

Graphic & web designSoftware & ITSocial media marketingPhotography & video Content creationConsulting & coachingInterior designEventsMarketing management …and many more
Ask if my work fits

What clients say about their experience.

4.9 average from clients we have filed for

Extremely cooperative staff, very happy with the customer service. Loved my experience with them.
VVincentE-commerce freelancer
Very helpful, professional, and fast. Got my licence the same day. I am very pleased.
MMonicaFreelance beautician
The overall experience was excellent from start to finish.
MMasonLifestyle coach

Your career. Your residency. Your name on it.

Tell a consultant where you stand today and what you invoice for. You get the route and the figure in writing — the first conversation is not chargeable.

WhatsApp a consultant Call +971 56 800 8064