UAE Employment Visa & Emirates ID
The attestation-heavy pack for a UAE work permit, residence stamp and Emirates ID. 4 required documents, 4 conditional. The checklist is free to read. Pro matches your files to it and builds the bundle.
Drop the whole folder in
Every PDF you have for this application, in any order, named however your bank and employer named them.
See what matches and what's missing
Each file is read in your browser and placed against a checklist slot. Anything mandatory that's absent is called out before you file.
Build the submission bundle
Files come out in the order the authority reads them, named to match, and checked against the portal's size limit.
What the UAE Employment Visa & Emirates ID actually asks for
In the order MOHRE and the emirate's immigration authority works through them. Output format: Numbered files matching the typing-centre submission order.
- 01
Passport bio page
Required1 pageValid at least six months, with the entry-permit page once issued.
- 02
Passport-size photograph
RequiredTaken in the last 6 months1 pageWhite-background photographs to the UAE specification.
Image-only files carry no text, so match this slot by hand if it lands in the wrong place.
- 03
Attested degree certificate
RequiredAttested in the issuing country and by the UAE mission there, then by MOFA in the UAE.
Attestation is the longest step in the whole process and cannot be done retroactively at speed.
- 04
Signed offer letter / MOHRE contract
RequiredThe job offer as registered with the labour ministry, signed by both parties.
- 05
Medical fitness certificate
If it appliesResult of the screening done at an approved UAE centre after entry.
- 06
Emirates ID application
If it appliesThe ICP application receipt for the identity card.
- 07
Attested marriage certificate
If it appliesRequired when sponsoring a spouse, attested to the same standard as the degree.
- 08
Tenancy contract (Ejari)
If it appliesRegistered tenancy, needed when you sponsor dependants.
Compiled from MOHRE and ICP public guidance on employment entry permits and residence. Free-zone employers follow their own authority's variant. Last reviewed 2026-08-05.
What actually goes wrong
Start attestation before you accept the offer
Degree attestation runs through the issuing country, the UAE mission there and then MOFA. Applicants from India and the Philippines routinely lose four to six weeks here. Nothing else in the pack is on the critical path.
Keep colour scans of everything stamped
Attestation stickers and stamps carry security features that grayscale scans lose. PROs and typing centres reject them and ask for a re-scan.
Free, forever
- The complete checklist on this page
- What each document must show, and how recent it has to be
- The portal's size limits and naming convention
- Every other PDF tool on the site
Pro: the pack builder
- Drop your folder in and have every file matched to its slot
- A gap report before you file, not after it's refused
- Size checks against the limits this submission enforces
- One assembled bundle, in order, correctly named
- A cover sheet listing what's inside and what isn't
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UAE Employment Visa & Emirates ID questions
Does my employer handle all of this?
The employer's PRO files most of it, but the documents that must come from you (attested degree, passport, marriage certificate) are yours to produce, and they're the ones that hold everything up.
One folder in, one submission out
The UAE Employment Visa & Emirates ID checklist is free to read above. Pro matches your documents to it and assembles the bundle.
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