{"id":9146,"date":"2021-09-06T09:57:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/?p=9146"},"modified":"2025-04-09T00:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:43:38","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-uae-green-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/2021\/09\/06\/all-you-need-to-know-about-uae-green-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"All you need to know about UAE’s new ‘green visa’"},"content":{"rendered":"

UAE green visa<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A new visa aimed at business owners, investors and entrepreneurs in the\u00a0UAE\u00a0will offer expanded benefits for sponsoring family members.<\/p>\n

The “green visa” is to cater for people who have their own businesses and are not working for, or sponsored by, an employer.<\/p>\n

Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade,\u00a0unveiled the visa on Sunday\u00a0as he set out broader plans to attract top talent and boost foreign investment.<\/p>\n

The owners of SMEs and high-performing students will also be eligible. The full criteria, including how and when the visa will be available, have not yet been revealed.<\/p>\n

Dr Al Zeyoudi said the new visa was aimed at the “self-dependent” investor who needed to sponsor family members.<\/p>\n

“He’s not going to be attached to companies. He’s going to sponsor his parents, sponsor his children up to 25 \u2013 instead of 18 years old, like nowadays,” he told\u00a0The National.<\/p>\n

The ability to sponsor a son to live in the Emirates into his mid-twenties is significant. Although a parent can sponsor their daughter’s residency visa until she is married,\u00a0male children cannot be sponsored\u00a0once they leave school at 18. And although universities provide student visas, graduates often find themselves quickly looking for a residency visa once they graduate.<\/p>\n

The new visa offers a grace period of 90 to 180 days in the event of cancellation \u2013 significantly longer than the current 30-day period.<\/p>\n

A new flexible freelance visa, which was not detailed in full on Sunday, is also aimed at highly skilled people in “new sectors that we want to bring new ideas to”, Dr Al Zeyoudi said.<\/p>\n

He also pointed out a “humanitarian aspect” in the new visa regulations. Divorcees and widows may now stay in the UAE for a year as they try to find a job or find some other way of settling. As of now, they are allowed to remain in the UAE for 30 days.<\/p>\n

Teenagers allowed to work part-time jobs for first time<\/p>\n

Thirdly, a further change will allow children over the age of 15 to work for the first time.<\/p>\n

A temporary work permit would allow them to secure a part-time job and get a taste for the workplace, without interrupting their studies.<\/p>\n

The decision could be hugely significant and bring about a culture of part-time and temporary work.<\/p>\n

“Anyone who’s living here, who’s above 15 years old, can apply for a temporary job,” Dr Al Zeyoudi said.<\/p>\n

“We don’t want them to stop their education but it’s a temporary visa to give them access to their market, shape up their skills and see the sectors they want to study and want to have a future in.<\/p>\n

“It’s a relaxation from us to ensure students have access to the market.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UAE green visa A new visa aimed at business owners, investors and entrepreneurs in the\u00a0UAE\u00a0will offer expanded benefits for sponsoring family members. The “green visa” is to cater for people who have their own businesses and are not working for, or sponsored by, an employer. Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade,\u00a0unveiled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12664,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146\/revisions\/12664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uaehumanjourney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}