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UAE Family Visa

You are allowed to bring your dependents with you through a UAE family visa, if you’re a foreign citizen staying in the UAE on a residence visa. Still, not everyone can bring their dependents along as there are certain conditions that have to be met.

Required Conditions for a UAE Family Visa

To be suitable to finance family members to the UAE, you need to fulfill the below stated conditions:

Manly deportees must have a minimal payment of AED 4,000 per month or AED 8,000 per month plus accommodation
Womanish deportees must have a minimum yearly payment of AED 8,000 or AED 10,000 plus accommodation
Also, all family members who are above the age of 18 years have to pass a medical fitness test taken at a government-approved health center in the UAE, where they will be tested for HIV and Tuberculosis.

The UAE doesn’t fete same-coitus marriage, thus you can not finance your partner if you’re in a same-coitus relationship.

Professions Eligible for Family Visa in United Arab Emirates

As of the year 2019, there are no specific professions that are eligible to finance their family members for a UAE family or dependent visa. Any foreign worker who meets the payment conditions can bring their family members to the UAE.

Financing for a UAE Family Visa

It is quite easier for a manly émigré to finance his family members in the UAE than it’s for a woman. However, you can bring the following family members on a family visa to the UAE, if you’re a man who is living in the UAE on a residence visa:

Wife However, you may also finance two women but you must meet certain terms set out by the GDRFA, if you're a Muslim occupant.
Your children, son You can finance your children, especially sons only if their age is below 18 years. However, you can still finance them but only if they're scholars, and only over to the age of 21 years, if the sons are over 18 years. Also, if the sons are over 18 years, they must enter the UAE formally for every six months, if studying abroad else their UAE visa will be canceled.
Your children, daughters You can finance your daughters only if they're unattached.
You finance both parents unless one of them has passed away.
You pay a deposit of AED 2,500 as a guarantee for each parent, make sure to check with the corresponding immigration department as this figure may change.
You get your parents a medical insurance policy.
You have a yearly payment of AED 19,000 or a AED 20,000 plus a two-bedroom accommodation.
You may also finance your stepchildren, only if you get a written no expostulation certificate from the natural parent. The visa for stepchildren is valid only for one time and is renewable.

Required Documents for a UAE Family Visa

The documents demanded for supporting a UAE family visa operation includes the following:

UAE visa application form, online or through a registered codifying office
Passport clones of the family members being patronized, along with their passport-size filmland
Medical concurrence instrument for any family member whose age is over 18 years
Copy of the employment contract or company contract of the guarantor
Evidence of the yearly payment the guarantor earns
The legalized marriage instrument
Evidence of accommodation in UAE, similar to the registered residency contract
The rearmost mileage bill

Applying for a UAE Family Visa

Family visas for the UAE can be patronized by either the émigré or their employer. As a foreign occupant, you are required to submit an application for a family visa within 60 days of entering your own UAE residence visa.

When you are applying for the entry permit before your family members travel to the UAE to join you. Your employer needs to apply for an entry permit to allow them in the first place to your country. You’re allowed to apply for the entry permit of your family members at one of the following places:

The General Directorate of Residency and Non-natives or Foreign Affairs, being abbreviated as GDRFA either online or in-person. If you apply in-person, you must do so through one of the certified typing centers of the GDRFA in each Emirate or through one of the Amer centers in Dubai.
You are allowed to find the GDRFA Dubai mobile apps for Apple and Android independently in the App Store and Play Store.
The Federal authority for identity and citizenship
The ICA’s eChanel portal
The mobile apps for Apple and Android

It is a type of hearthstone visa, and as similar, you need to submit it on the behalf of your family members after they’re formerly in the country on an entry permit. You are free to submit the family visa operation at the services of the General Directorate of Residency and Non-natives Affairs, abbreviated as GDRFA of the applicable emirate.

Frequently Asked Questions

Ques 1. What is the validity of a UAE family visa?

A family visa to the UAE can be issued for 1, 2, or 3 times and can be renewed a minimum period of thirty days before its expiry. UAE dependent visas depend on the guarantor, so if the visa of the guarantor expires or is canceled, the family visas will also be void. Still, dependent family members get a 30-day grace period during which time they may see if they can renew their own residence visa.

Ques 2. Is a woman allowed to sponsor her family members for a UAE family visa?

Yes, a woman is allowed to sponsor her family members to the UAE. She is required to follow the criterias to finance her family to the UAE, which are advanced than for a man:

The family members she is allowed to finance her hubby and her children
She has to earn a yearly payment not lower than AED 6,000 or alternately AED 10,000 plus accommodation
She is required to work as an mastermind, school teacher, or a profession related to the medical sector, croaker , nanny etc
In certain cases with having a blessing from the DRND, if the woman has a sufficient yearly payment, she could qualify for backing indeed if she is not employed in one of the forenamed orders