Every route we track for United Arab Emirates, with the official source behind each one.
The Abu Dhabi Golden Visa for Skilled Professionals, administered by the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), grants a 10-year long-term residency to employed skilled professionals in the emirate — no nationality is excluded on the source page, so eligibility depends entirely on employment, role cla…
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The Golden visa is the UAE's long-term residence for people the country wants to keep: a renewable permit valid for five or ten years depending on the category, granted to foreign talents to live, work or study in the Emirates.
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The Green visa is the UAE's answer to a specific problem: an employment residence visa dies with the job.
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Freelancing in the UAE with your own residence is a two-document exercise, and the order matters.
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The federal portal files this route under "Residence visa for doing business in the UAE" and calls it the Green visa for investors.
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This is the ordinary route into the UAE: an employer recruits you, applies for a work permit and a residence visa, and you live in the country on that basis.
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The UAE's virtual work visa — the Abu Dhabi channel calls it the Remote Work Visa — is a residence for people whose income comes from outside the country.
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