UAE Immigration Services with PROXPAT

Immigration Services We Support

Official UAE and Dubai immigration services include entry permits, residence permits, visa extension, visa amendment, visa cancellation, residence permit amendment, residence permit cancellation, and status checking. PROXPAT helps clients understand which service applies to their case before submission.

Sponsoring a spouse, children or parents is a separate process with its own salary, accommodation and attestation requirements — see our family visa services for the full breakdown.

Our Immigration Assistance Includes

Documents Commonly Required

Documents depend on the applicant's nationality, sponsor type, current status, service requested, and whether the application is under ICP, GDRFA, a free zone, or another authority.

Why Choose PROXPAT?

Entry Permits, Status Change and the Rules That Govern Both

Almost every UAE immigration problem comes down to one of three things: which permit someone entered on, whether their status can be changed in-country, and whether a validity window closed while they waited.

The entry permit

Issued before someone enters, or before an in-country status change. It carries its own validity, and every stage that follows — medical, Emirates ID, stamping — has to complete inside it. Booking those stages late in the window is the most common self-inflicted delay there is.

Change status, or exit and re-enter

Whether someone can convert to residence without leaving depends on the entry category they arrived on. Where it is permitted, an in-country status change saves a flight. Where it is not, an exit and re-entry on the new permit is mandatory. This question should be settled before travel is booked, not after — and it is the question most often answered wrongly by whoever sold the original visa.

Grace periods and overstay

After a visa is cancelled or expires there is a grace period. Inside it, someone can transfer sponsor or arrange their exit without penalty. Outside it, fines accrue daily and continue accumulating, and an overstay record complicates future applications. Grace periods have been amended more than once, so the current rule is worth confirming rather than assuming.

Bans

The automatic six-month labour ban that applied under older rules no longer works the way it once did. Under the current framework a worker can generally move employers where both the labour and immigration sides were closed correctly. Bans can still be imposed in specific circumstances — absconding, or breach of contract terms — so how the previous employment ended matters more than the fact that it ended.

Please note: entry categories, status-change eligibility, grace periods, fines and ban rules are set by the UAE immigration authority and are revised from time to time.