About UAE Inform

UAE Inform is an independent, English-language guide to living, working and doing business in the United Arab Emirates. It is written for residents, new arrivals and business owners who need the actual rule — the fee, the deadline, the threshold — rather than a rough summary of it, so guides are checked against the regulator that publishes each rule: the ICP and GDRFA for immigration, MOHRE for employment, the FTA for tax, the CBUAE for banking, the RTA for transport, and the DLD and RERA for Dubai property. The domain has carried information about the UAE since 2007. This page explains, as of September 2026, how the site works, what it covers, and where its limits are.

What UAE Inform Is

UAE Inform is independently operated. It is not owned by, or affiliated with, any UAE government body, property developer, bank, visa agency or relocation firm, and it does not sell any of the services its guides describe. No company, product or venue pays to appear in a guide or directory listing, and nothing on the site is a sponsored ranking. If advertising is ever shown, it will be clearly distinguishable from editorial content and covered by the privacy policy.

How Guides Are Made

Checked against the regulator

Fees, fines, dates and thresholds are checked against the official source that publishes them — ICP and GDRFA circulars and portals for visas, MOHRE resolutions for labour rules, FTA guidance for VAT and corporate tax, CBUAE regulations for banking, RTA and the emirate-level transport authorities for driving, and DLD and RERA for Dubai property. A news report or second-hand summary can flag a change but does not confirm one: where no official source confirms a figure, the guide hedges it or says who reported it. Where official sources conflict, the guide says so and names both. Where a change has been announced but not yet confirmed in force, the guide says that too, explicitly, rather than presenting it as settled. Guides are gaining a Sources list as they come up in the monthly review; each list names the official pages the guide rests on and the date each was last checked.

Fact-checking before publication

Before a new guide goes live, it is put through an adversarial fact-check: a separate pass whose job is to challenge every number and date in the draft against the current official source. Older guides are being re-checked the same way in the monthly review. A claim no primary source confirms is cut, hedged or attributed. The goal is simple — a reader should be able to see where a figure comes from, and confirm it with the relevant authority before acting on it.

Comparisons without rankings

The site does not label any bank, financial product, healthcare provider or brokerage "the best". Comparison pages are unranked — entries are listed alphabetically or by a stated criterion — and built from regulator data and the providers' own published fee schedules, in line with UAE rules on financial promotion. Figures no regulator or provider publishes, such as rents and salaries, are market data. Readers get the numbers; the choice stays theirs.

Dated updates and corrections

Every guide shows when it was last updated, and pages tied to a date or deadline are re-checked against their official sources every month. If you find an error — a fee that has moved, a rule that no longer applies — tell us via the contact page. Factual errors are verified against the regulator and corrected on the page itself, with the update date changed to match.

What the Site Covers

As of August 2026, UAE Inform is organised into eleven editorial guide clusters, each a hub with in-depth spoke pages: among them the visa guide (residence, family sponsorship, Golden and Green visas, police clearance rules), the work guide (contracts, changing jobs, gratuity, labour rights), the business guide (setup, VAT, corporate tax), the personal finance guide (banking, credit, remittances), plus driving, property and sports and fitness. Alongside the guides sit city directories covering all seven emirates — Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah — and a glossary of the abbreviations that UAE paperwork runs on, from ICP and MOHRE to Ejari and WPS.

How We Use AI

Drafting on UAE Inform is AI-assisted, and we would rather say so plainly than let you wonder. Drafts are prepared with the help of AI tools, then go through editorial review and primary-source verification before publication — fees, fines and deadlines are checked against the regulator that sets them. Responsibility for what is published rests with the site's editors, not with a model: AI is not used as a source of facts, and a number no official source confirms is cut, hedged or attributed.

Hero images on articles are AI-generated and labelled as such. They are illustrations, not photographs of the specific places, documents or people a page discusses.

Contact

The fastest way to reach us — for corrections, questions or feedback — is the contact page. Correction reports get priority: name the page and the claim, and we will check it against the source and fix what needs fixing.

What This Site Is Not

UAE Inform is informational — not legal, financial, tax, immigration or medical advice. UAE rules change frequently and can differ by emirate, free zone and individual circumstances — before acting on anything time- or money-critical, verify the current position with the relevant regulator or a licensed professional. Where a guide describes a government process, the regulator's own portal is always the authoritative version.