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 every guide is anchored to the regulator that publishes that 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 August 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
Regulator-anchored sourcing
Every fee, fine, date and threshold on this site is tied to the official source that publishes it — 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. Aggregator blogs and secondhand summaries are not treated as sources. 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.
Fact-checking before publication
Before a 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. Claims that cannot be traced to a primary source are cut, not hedged. The goal is simple — a reader should be able to act on a figure published here, or follow the source link and verify it themselves.
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. Readers get the numbers; the choice stays theirs.
Dated updates and corrections
Guides carry a "Last updated" line, and pages are revised when the underlying rules change rather than left to go stale. 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 — every figure checked against the regulator that publishes it. Responsibility for what is published rests with the site's editors, not with a model: AI is never the source of a fact, and any number that cannot be traced to a named official source does not survive review.
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 or immigration 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.
