UAE Visa Amnesty and Fine Waiver 2026: Every Past Scheme, the Routes Open Today and How to Apply

Last reviewed 23 September 2026. Every scheme below carries its dates and its source, and every standing waiver route links to the official service card or law it comes from.

A UAE visa amnesty is a time-limited scheme, announced by the Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Port Security (ICP), under which people who have broken the entry and residence rules can leave the country or regularise their status without paying the fines they owe, and usually without an entry ban. A UAE fine waiver is narrower and always available: an application to cancel or reduce a particular person’s fines, decided by GDRFA’s Fines Committee for Dubai files or at ICP’s discretion for the other emirates, or granted automatically by law in a few defined situations. The first depends on a government announcement. The second depends on your circumstances and your evidence.

This guide covers both: the full record of every UAE visa amnesty since 1996, so you can tell a real scheme from a recycled headline, and every standing route to an overstay fine waiver that exists today. We checked each point against ICP, GDRFA Dubai, u.ae and UAE legislation on 23 September 2026, and name any newspaper we rely on.

UAE visa amnesty and fine waiver at a glance

Find your situation in the first column. Each route is explained in full further down.

UAE visa amnesty and fine waiver requests: how MIRDXB PRO helps

Most people who write to us about a UAE visa amnesty are really asking something simpler: what do I owe, is there any way to owe less, and what is the fastest legal way out of this. We are a PRO and visa services firm in Al Barsha 1, Dubai. We handle fines, fine exemption requests and the status step that follows at GDRFA for Dubai files and through ICP for the other emirates. When the answer is an overstay fine waiver request, we prepare it properly. When the answer is to pay and move on, we say so. The full service is on our visa fines and absconding removal page.

What we do

• Read your record first: the fines, when they started, any grace period, and any report or ban alongside them.
• Test every waiver route against your facts: the GDRFA Fines Committee, the legal exemptions in Cabinet Resolution No. 89 of 2022, ICP’s humanitarian discretion, and any targeted decision that covered your dates.
• Prepare the fine exemption request: the letter in Arabic and English, the evidence and the fine statement, filed through an Amer centre or the right ICP channel, with follow-up until the decision.
• Complete the status step after the decision: pay any balance, then arrange a new residence, a status change, or an exit, because paying alone does not regularise you.
• Handle employer-side fines, such as establishment card and labour fines, for companies whose files have drifted.

How it works

1. WhatsApp us your passport page, your last visa or residence page and, if you have it, the fine figure from the GDRFA or ICP enquiry. Tell us which emirate issued the visa.
2. We check the record and reply in writing with the route that fits, the government fees and our fee. If no route fits, we tell you before you spend anything more.
3. You approve, and we draft the letter with you, collect the evidence and file the request.
4. We track it to a decision and then complete the payment and status or exit step, sending you every receipt.

What it costs

Government fees are passed on at cost, with the official receipt. GDRFA publishes AED 15.75 for its fine exemption request where the sponsor is an individual; Amer centres add their own typing and service charges, which appear on the receipt. Our own fee depends on the work involved and is quoted in writing before we start. Our general approach to pricing is on the fees page.

Why residents use us

• We publish our sources. Every figure on this page links to the service card, law or named newspaper it came from, and we show conflicts instead of hiding them.
• We work on both systems: GDRFA for Dubai files and ICP for Abu Dhabi and the northern emirates.
• We tell you when you do not need us. Many people find they are still inside a grace period, or that the fine is smaller than they feared.
• You can walk in. Our office is in Al Barsha 1, open by appointment; whatsApp us any time, 24 hours; office open Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 18:00 (Dubai time).
• If you are outside the UAE, we can act for you under a power of attorney where the service allows representation.

Is there a UAE amnesty 2026? The position on 23 September 2026

No. There is no UAE amnesty 2026 scheme for residence and visa violators, and there was none in 2025. The last general UAE visa amnesty opened on 1 September 2024 and closed on 31 December 2024. When ICP announced the extension on 31 October 2024, its Director General, Major General Suhail Saeed Al Khaili, said the extension “represents the final opportunity for violators to regularise their status without incurring fines or facing entry bans”, and that fines would be reimposed and inspection campaigns intensified once it ended (as reported by Aletihad and WAM).

What did happen in 2026 was a set of narrow measures for people caught by the regional airspace closures that began on 28 February 2026. They were real, they were generous, and they are over. We summarise them here because they are the most common source of confusion, and our guide to the 2026 visa rule changes covers them in more depth.

ICP’s 4 March release set no end date, and some websites later reported 31 March 2026 as the end of the fine waiver. ICP’s own June decision is the clearer record: it replaced the waiver with a final grace period from 10 June to 9 July 2026, during which beneficiaries “are not required to take any additional action” beyond regularising or leaving (Emirates 24|7, reporting the ICP decision). From 10 July 2026 the ordinary AED 50 a day applies again.

The GDRFA UAE visa amnesty enquiry form is still online

GDRFA Dubai’s “Violators Amnesty Inquiry Service” page is still live. It asks for a file, UDB, Emirates ID or passport number, nationality, file type and place of issue, and then whether you are part of the amnesty, whether you want an “Out pass” or a “Change status”, whether you have given fingerprints and whether you have a new employment visa. When we checked on 23 September 2026 it carried no notice that the scheme had ended.

A working form is not an announcement. Authorities leave scheme infrastructure in place between windows, and the form remains useful for enquiries about past cases. What it does show clearly is how the 2024 decisions were made: out pass or change of status, fingerprints or not, a new job or not. Those are the questions to have answers to, whatever route you use.

UAE visa amnesty history: every scheme since 1996

The UAE has run general schemes roughly every four to six years since 1996, with no published cycle. In between, it has issued targeted fine exemptions for specific nationalities or events. The table gives the record we could source. Dates for the older schemes come from newspapers of the time, because the federal authority’s archive does not go back that far online.

What the record tells you

Four patterns hold across thirty years of schemes, and they are the best guide to what any future UAE visa amnesty might look like.

• Schemes are announced, not predicted. The 2024 scheme was announced at the start of August 2024 and opened on 1 September. No scheme has been pre-announced years ahead, and no authority publishes a cycle.
• They cover an existing population. In 2024, anyone who became a violator, or was reported for work abandonment, after the start date was excluded. A scheme is a line drawn under the past, not a licence for the future.
• There are always two exits. Leave, or regularise. A UAE visa amnesty removes the fines; it does not supply a sponsor or a job. People without a sponsor had, in practice, one route: departure.
• Enforcement follows. After 2024, The National reported on 3 February 2025 that about 6,000 people had been arrested for residency violations since the scheme ended, and that ICP said 93 per cent of them had been deported.

The gaps between general schemes were about six years each time since 2012. That is not a timetable: the 2020, 2023, 2025 and 2026 waivers answered specific crises, and none was forecast. The only reliable plan is one that does not depend on a UAE visa amnesty arriving.

What the 2024 UAE visa amnesty covered, in detail

The 2024 scheme is the most recent and best documented UAE visa amnesty, and it is the template people have in mind when they ask about the next one. ICP called it a “grace period for violators”. It opened on 1 September 2024 for two months, was extended on 31 October 2024 to 31 December 2024, and closed.

Who could use the 2024 UAE visa amnesty

ICP named four categories of beneficiary (Aletihad, 30 August 2024):

• Residence violators: people whose residence had expired or been cancelled and who had stayed on.
• Visa violators: people whose visit, tourist or entry permit had run out.
• People on the administrative lists, meaning those with a work-abandonment report recorded against them. Many people assumed this group was excluded. In 2024 it was not.
• Children born in the UAE whose guardian had not established their residence within four months of birth.

Who could not

• Anyone who fell into violation after 1 September 2024.
• Anyone reported for work abandonment after 1 September 2024.
• Anyone subject to a deportation order from the UAE or another GCC state.

What the 2024 UAE visa amnesty waived

ICP listed exemptions from administrative fines on residence and visas, establishment cards, identity cards and Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation fines, together with visa cancellation fees, fees for work-abandonment reports and departure permit fees. Departing violators were exempted from “administrative restrictions that prevent his or her return to the country, without a ban stamp” (Gulf News, 1 September 2024). MOHRE separately offered four services for the period: issuing, renewing and cancelling work permits, handling work-abandonment complaints, and exempting establishments from fines for failing to submit employment contracts or renew work permits (MOHRE news release, 6 September 2024).

The Department of Health in Abu Dhabi added its own exemption: health insurance fines for violators whose status adjustment ICP approved (Gulf News, 3 September 2024).

How it worked in practice

• Two routes: an out pass to leave, or a change of status to stay, which needed a sponsor or employer ready to act.
• Exit permits were valid for 14 days. If the holder did not leave in time, “all previous fines and restrictions will be automatically reinstated” (Gulf News).
• Fingerprints were required for people aged 15 and over with no biometric record. In Dubai this was done at the Al Aweer centre.
• Passport validity for status transactions was cut from six months to one month on 24 September 2024 for residence and visa violators, children born in the country and people on the administrative lists. ICP said the reason was that renewing a passport through an embassy could take longer than the scheme itself.

How many used it

GDRFA’s Director General, Lt Gen Mohammed Al Marri, said more than 236,000 people in Dubai had benefited, and that 55,200 exit passes were issued there (The National, 30 December 2024). We quote these as reported figures; no national total was published on the official pages we checked.

UAE fine waiver routes that are open without an amnesty

This is the part of the subject that matters most on an ordinary day, and the part most articles leave out. You do not need a UAE visa amnesty to ask for a fine to be cancelled or reduced. There are standing routes, set out in a published service card or in law, that work whether or not any UAE visa amnesty is running. Which one fits depends on the emirate that issued your file, the reason the violation happened, and whether the fine is a residence fine, an Emirates ID fine or an employer fine.

Route 1: the GDRFA fine exemption request for an overstay fine waiver (Dubai files)

GDRFA lists this service under Violator Follow-up and Fine Collection. Its own description is a service to “request waiver or reduction” of the financial penalties imposed on people who violate the Foreigners’ Entry and Residence Law. The words “or reduction” matter: the committee can cut a fine without cancelling it, and many decisions do exactly that.

What the documents tell you about the decision. The committee is asked to consider two things: why the violation happened, and why the fine cannot be paid. A letter that explains a real misfortune but says nothing about money, or pleads hardship without saying how the situation arose, answers only half the question. Everything else in the file is evidence for one of those two halves.

What the press adds, and where it conflicts. Khaleej Times (updated 9 August 2026) and Gulf News both describe a minimum fine of Dh4,000 for individuals, and Gulf News gives Dh3,000 for families, before a request is accepted. GDRFA’s service card lists no such condition; its terms and conditions field reads “None”. The same articles quote typical totals of about Dh322.50 to Dh390 at an Amer centre, against GDRFA’s published AED 15.75; the difference is the centre’s typing and service charges, which vary. We show both because we could not find an official page that settles the threshold. In practice, ask the Amer counter before you pay for typing whether your figure will be accepted.

Step by step: filing the GDRFA fine exemption request

1. Get the exact fine figure. Use GDRFA’s no-fee fines enquiry, which searches by file number, UDB number, Emirates ID or passport number, or ask the Amer centre for a fine statement.
2. Check you are past any grace period. If you are still inside it, there is no fine to waive; act on the status first.
3. Write the letter, addressed to the Fines Committee, in Arabic or with an Arabic version. The structure is set out below.
4. Collect the evidence that proves each statement in the letter.
5. Submit at an Amer centre or GDRFA Customer Happiness Centre. Take a ticket, hand over the application and documents, and pay the fee. Keep the application number.
6. Answer requests quickly. If the committee asks for more documents, the file waits until you respond.
7. Act on the decision. Pay any balance, then change status, take a new residence or leave. A decision on the fine does not by itself give you a legal status.

How to write the letter for an overstay fine waiver

GDRFA publishes no template, and we would not invent one. The requirement itself tells you what the committee needs, and letters that follow this order are easier to read:

• Who you are: name, nationality, passport number, file or UDB number, and your last status.
• What happened, in dates: when the residence or visa ended, and the cause. An employer who stopped processing, a hospital stay, a death in the family, a passport held by someone else, a job that ended without cancellation.
• What you did about it: complaints filed, calls to the sponsor, attempts to leave, with reference numbers.
• Your financial position, plainly: income now, dependants, savings, debts, and what you could pay if the fine were reduced.
• What you are asking for: cancellation, or reduction to an amount you can pay, and what you will do next (a new sponsor, or departure on a named date).
• A list of attachments matching each statement.

Write it honestly and in your own words. A committee that reads these every week can tell a real account from a copied template, and a claim that the evidence contradicts damages the whole request.

Evidence that supports a fine exemption, by reason

Route 2: the legal fine exemption in Cabinet Resolution No. 89 of 2022

Cabinet Resolution No. 89 of 2022 sets the administrative fines for violations of ICP’s services. It was issued on 30 September 2022 and came into force on 3 October 2022. Its annex lists the overstay fine as item 1: AED 50 for each day a foreigner stays after an entry visa, residence permit, exit permit or newborn status is cancelled or expires. Its Article 4 then exempts three categories from the fines in the resolution:

• a person who left the UAE and has been outside for more than three months, and whose identity card expired after they left;
• a person whose residence or identity card expired after deportation by order, administrative resolution or court ruling, or whose passport was seized pending cases, “provided that this shall be proven by a letter or receipt issued by the competent authorities”;
• a person who was not issued an identity card before obtaining UAE citizenship and the family book.

The second category is the one that matters for residence fines. If your residence ran out while the police or a court held your passport, or after a deportation order, the fines for that period are exempt by law, not by favour. What you need is the proof: a letter or receipt from the authority that held the passport or issued the order, showing the dates. Article 5 says exemption cases are recorded in ICP’s electronic system.

Route 3: a UAE fine waiver at ICP’s humanitarian discretion (Abu Dhabi and the northern emirates)

Article 4(2) of the same resolution reads: “The Chairman or his Authorised Representative may be exempted from all or some of the fines stipulated in Article (2) of this resolution based on considerations of the humanitarian circumstance of the situation or any other reasons he deems appropriate.” The English translation is awkward, but the meaning is clear: ICP’s Chairman, or someone he authorises, may waive all or part of any fine in the resolution for humanitarian or other appropriate reasons.

ICP does not publish a separate service card for this request that we could find. People with ICP files make the request at an ICP Customer Happiness Centre, with a letter and evidence built the same way as the GDRFA letter above. Because there is no published fee, form or time, we treat it as the least predictable route and always prepare it as if it will be read by someone who knows nothing about the case.

Case-by-case review is not new. Gulf News reported on 1 November 2018 that GDRFA’s Al Aweer centre had handled 25,000 residency violation cases that year and that about 40 per cent of violators received an overstay fine waiver or discount. Those are old, reported figures and no recent statistics are published, so they are not today’s odds.

Route 4: ICP’s Emirates ID delay-fee fine exemption (ID card fines only)

ICP’s “Request for Exemption from Delay Fees” is often mentioned as a UAE fine waiver for overstay. It is not. ICP describes it as a request for “exemption from administrative delay fees associated with the ID card … according to the approved exemption decisions”. It is filed together with the ID card application, takes two days, and needs proof such as a deportation or court letter. It does nothing to a residence or visit visa overstay fine. The grounds, including the three-month-abroad rule and the 70-and-over exemption, are set out in our Emirates ID fine guide.

Route 5: targeted overstay fine waiver decisions for defined groups

These are the decisions that newspapers call a “waiver” or even an amnesty. Each covered a named group and a defined period, and each was applied through ICP’s normal channels. You cannot apply for one that does not exist, but you should always check whether one covered your dates before paying an old fine.

• Sudanese nationals: exempted from entry and residence fines in 2023 (announced 19 May 2023, covering violations from 15 April 2023), and again from 19 May to 31 December 2025 when regularising or renewing through ICP’s digital channels. We found no extension into 2026.
• Iranian nationals: exempted from late departure fines on 17 June 2025, on presidential directives, while airspace closures prevented return (WAM; Gulf News).
• People unable to leave from 28 February 2026: fines for delayed departure waived under ICP’s 4 March 2026 release, closed by the grace period ending 9 July 2026.

If you paid a fine for a period that one of these decisions covered, keep the receipt and the dates. Whether a refund is possible is not addressed in any of the releases we read, so any request for one is a discretionary matter for the authority.

Route 6: fine exemption and UAE fine waiver requests for employers

Companies carry their own fines. Cabinet Resolution No. 89 of 2022 charges AED 100 a month, up to AED 1,000, for renewing an establishment card more than 30 days late, and other penalties for changing establishment data without notice. These sit under the same Article 4(2) discretion as individual fines. On the labour side, MOHRE lists a service called “An exemption from a fine request” for establishments; its service card was blocked to our tools on 23 September 2026, so we cannot quote its conditions or fee. Late work permit renewal is charged at AED 200 a month up to AED 2,000 under Cabinet Resolution No. 21 of 2020, as our MOHRE labour card guide explains.

Who is eligible for an overstay fine waiver?

No authority publishes a scoring system, so eligibility for a discretionary overstay fine waiver is a matter of judgement. What can be said is which situations fall inside a legal exemption, which are the kind of case the committees were set up for, and which are unlikely to succeed. The table is our reading of the published rules and of how the routes are described; it is not a prediction of any decision.

In every case, a waiver deals only with the fine, and any reduced balance must be paid before the status transaction goes through.

Waiting for a UAE visa amnesty or acting now: the arithmetic

The overstay fine is AED 50 a day, on ICP’s payment service card and in the annex to Cabinet Resolution No. 89 of 2022. Neither publishes a cap. This is what waiting adds:

Set that against the record. General schemes came in 2007, 2012, 2018 and 2024. None came with a published timetable, and the 2024 scheme was announced only about a month before it opened. So the real question is whether to add AED 1,500 a month against an event with no date and no guarantee. Framed that way, most people answer it themselves.

How the daily fine is counted for each status, when it starts and how to calculate it for a family are covered in our guide to how the overstay fine is calculated, and our overstay calculator does the sum for you.

When waiting a few days for a UAE fine waiver does make sense

There is one situation where holding off briefly is rational: when a clear external event, such as a closed airspace or a conflict in your home country, has just stopped you leaving. In 2025 and 2026, ICP announced a targeted overstay fine waiver within days of such events. If that is your situation, check icp.gov.ae and wam.ae for a few days before paying. If nothing is announced, act on the standing routes.

What a UAE visa amnesty or fine waiver does not clear

Even the widest scheme is narrower than people assume. An amnesty or an overstay fine waiver is a decision by immigration and labour authorities about penalties they imposed. It has no effect on what you owe anyone else.

The last rows account for much of the disappointment after every UAE visa amnesty. A civil creditor’s claim or a court case can keep you in the country even when your immigration fines are zero.

Related situations, and where each is covered

Fines rarely come alone. Each of these topics has its own guide; here is the short version and the link.

You are still inside a grace period

ICP allows 180, 90, 60 or 30 days after a residence is cancelled or expires, depending on the category, before fines start; in Dubai the standard is 30 days after cancellation (some categories get 60, 90 or 180 days; your exact period is shown on your cancellation letter). If you are inside yours, there is nothing to waive. Our grace period after cancellation guide explains the tiers, and our guide to what happens when your visa expires sets out the options.

A work-abandonment report is on your file

A fine waiver does not remove an absconding report. Check first whether one exists, using our guide on checking for an absconding report, then read about removal routes, costs and timelines. Employers weighing whether to file one should read the employer’s guide; in 2024, a report filed after the start date took the worker out of the scheme.

You already left on an outpass, or without paying

Whether old fines follow you, whether a ban was recorded and how to clear it from abroad is covered in our guide for people who left the UAE on an outpass.

You think there is a ban

Immigration bans, labour bans and judicial travel bans are different things with different owners. Our ban types guide explains each one and who lifts it, and our immigration ban removal service handles the process.

The fine is correct and you simply need to pay it

ICP’s service card for paying a visa or residence violation fine lists AED 50 a day, an AED 100 processing fee, two days and UAE PASS login, with one condition: “The status must be adjusted or the individual must leave the UAE after paying any fines incurred in relation to the visa or residence permit.” Paying clears the amount; it does not give you a status. Our overstay fine payment service does the payment and the status step together.

Fees linked to a UAE fine waiver or fine exemption, with sources

These are the government figures that apply to the routes in this guide. Amer and typing centres add their own charges, which are shown on the receipt. Our fee is quoted separately, in writing.

How to check your fines before a fine exemption request

Before deciding anything, find out what you actually owe. People often discover the figure is smaller than they feared, because a grace period absorbed part of the gap or the cancellation date was later than they remembered.

• Dubai files: GDRFA’s fines enquiry at gdrfad.gov.ae searches by file number, UDB number, Emirates ID or passport number, with a place-of-issue field for all seven emirates. GDRFA’s helpline is 8005111 (+971 4 313 9999 from abroad).
• Other emirates: ICP’s smart services and app show file validity, and the fine appears when you open the payment or status transaction. ICP’s call centre is 600522222.
• Labour side: MOHRE’s app and 600590000 show whether a work permit is still active and whether a report exists.
• The first digit of your residence file number tells you the issuing emirate: 1 Abu Dhabi, 2 Dubai, 3 Sharjah, 4 Ajman, 5 Umm Al Quwain, 6 Ras Al Khaimah, 7 Fujairah. That decides whether you are dealing with GDRFA or ICP.

How to be ready if a UAE visa amnesty is ever announced

Whether you decide to wait or act now, the preparation is the same, because every item below is also needed to resolve your status normally.

Why a UAE visa amnesty cannot be planned for

ICP’s language around the 2024 scheme had two threads: humanitarian (the extension was timed to the 53rd Union Day and paired with the passport concession) and enforcement (fines would return and inspections would intensify). They are one policy. A window is opened so that people can resolve their status voluntarily, then closed so that what remains is handled by enforcement. A UAE visa amnesty is a correction, not a recurring entitlement. The standing fine exemption routes exist precisely so that people with a genuine reason do not have to wait years for one.

UAE visa amnesty and fine waiver: five cases, worked through

These cases are built from the situations we see most often. Names and identifying details are left out, and the figures are the published ones.

1. A Dubai worker whose employer let the residence lapse

A warehouse worker’s Dubai residence expired in January 2026. The employer stopped paying salaries in November, did not renew, and did not cancel. The worker filed a MOHRE complaint in February and found a new employer in August. By then the fine was over AED 7,000.

What fits: no scheme is open, so the route is GDRFA’s fine exemption request. The letter sets out the dates, the unpaid salary, the MOHRE complaint number and the worker’s lack of savings. The evidence is the complaint record, bank statements and messages to the employer. The request asks for an overstay fine waiver or a reduction to an amount the worker can pay. The new employer’s permit and residence follow the decision. Waiting for a UAE visa amnesty would have cost AED 1,500 a month and risked the job.

2. A Sharjah resident whose passport was held in a court case

A resident’s passport was held by the court for eight months during a civil dispute. His Sharjah residence expired while the passport was held. The case closed in July 2026 and the passport was returned.

What fits: this is a legal exemption, not a favour. Cabinet Resolution No. 89 of 2022, Article 4(1)(b), exempts a person whose residence expired while the passport was seized pending cases, if proved by a letter or receipt from the authority. He obtains the court’s letter showing the dates the passport was held, and requests the fine exemption at an ICP Customer Happiness Centre. Fines outside those dates, for example if he waited weeks after the passport was returned, may still be charged.

3. A visitor who stayed on to look for work

A visitor’s visa ran out in March 2026. She stayed to look for work and had heard that an amnesty “comes every year”. By September she owed about AED 9,000 and had no job offer.

What fits: honestly, a weak case for an overstay fine waiver, because the overstay was a choice. There is no annual scheme; the last general one ended on 31 December 2024. If she genuinely cannot pay, she can still file a GDRFA fine exemption request with evidence of her finances and ask for a reduction. The realistic plan is to check the figure, lodge the request if justified, and arrange departure.

4. A tourist stranded in March 2026 who stayed after July

A tourist could not fly home in March 2026 when flights were suspended, then stayed on after the airspace reopened. He assumed the UAE fine waiver was still in force.

What fits: ICP’s waiver covered fines from 28 February 2026 for people who could not leave, and the final grace period ran from 10 June to 9 July 2026. From 10 July, the normal AED 50 a day applied. His fines from 10 July onwards are chargeable. The route is to pay, or to ask the Fines Committee to consider a reduction if there is a real reason he could not leave after 9 July, and then leave or regularise.

5. A small company with lapsed establishment card and work permits

A trading company’s owner was abroad for a year. The establishment card expired, two work permits were not renewed, and one worker stopped coming to work.

What fits: the establishment card fine is capped at AED 1,000 under the resolution, and the work permit late fees at AED 2,000 per permit under Cabinet Resolution No. 21 of 2020. The company can ask ICP to use its discretion on the establishment card fine and MOHRE to consider its fine exemption request, with evidence of the owner’s absence. It should not file a work-abandonment report as a reflex; the options are in our employer’s guide.

What circulates online about the UAE visa amnesty that is not true

How to verify every figure in this UAE visa amnesty guide

This page carries a verification date, but rules change between updates. Here is how to check each point yourself in a few minutes.

What we will and will not do

• We will establish what your record shows on the immigration and labour sides before anything else, and tell you if you are still inside a grace period.
• We will test every published route against your facts, including the legal exemptions most people never hear about, and show you the official page behind each one.
• We will help you prepare a complete, honest fine exemption request, with the letter and evidence in order, and handle the status or exit step that follows the decision.
• We will quote our fee in writing before we start, pass government fees on at cost with receipts, and tell you when you do not need to pay anyone, including us.
• We will not tell you a UAE visa amnesty is coming, because nobody outside government knows.
• We will not promise a Fines Committee or ICP decision. That decision belongs to the authority.
• We will not take a fee to “register” you for a scheme that has not been announced, or put anything in a letter that the evidence does not support.

Related guides

• How the overstay fine is calculated, by status
• Grace periods after a residence is cancelled or expires
• What happens when a residence or visit visa expires
• Left the UAE on an outpass: fines, bans and returning
• How to check for an absconding report
• Absconding report removal: routes, cost and time
• The types of ban in the UAE and who lifts each
• Emirates ID late renewal fine and exemptions
• What changed in UAE visa rules in 2026
• GDRFA services explained
• Visa cancellation without the sponsor

Establishing what is on a file and clearing fines, reports and status in the right order is what our PRO services in Dubai team handles every day.