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قرار مجلس الوزراء رقم (56) لسنة 2018 في شأن تنظيم تصاريح الإقامة للمستثمرين ورواد الأعمال وأصحاب المواهب التخصصية (Cabinet Resolution No. 56 of 2018 regulating residence permits for investors, entrepreneurs and specialised talents)
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What the document holds
Cabinet Resolution 56/2018 (8 pages, Arabic): definitions; investor permits (AED 10 million fund deposit, company or mixed with 60% non-real-estate, 10 years; AED 5 million property, 5 years; 3-year holding, AED 10 million solvency, health insurance, up to 3 domestic-worker visas, 6-month entry permit, one senior employee); entrepreneurs (previous project of AED 500,000 or incubator approval, 5 years); talents and researchers (doctors, scientists, artists, inventors, executives with AED 30,000 salary, educators, athletes; 10 years); outstanding students (95% or GPA 3.75; 5 years); committees; in force 3 Feb 2019. Entrepreneur, talent and student criteria are out of scope (same choice as for the federal portal page, are-uae-portal-golden-visa). No statistics.
What it supports
14 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.
Programmes (1)
Rules and prices (11)
- Property purchaseinvestor plus spouse and children (5-year permit)AED 5,000,0003 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Business investmentinvestor plus spouse and children (10-year permit)AED 10,000,0003 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Investmentinvestor plus spouse and children (10-year permit)AED 10,000,0003 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Investment in a fundinvestor plus spouse and children (10-year permit)AED 10,000,0003 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Holding period for the investmentinvestor (public investment or real estate), from the date the permit is issued3 years3 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Residence permit validityinvestor in real estate (renewed automatically on payment of fees)5 years3 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Validity of the entry visainvestor from outside the UAE: multiple-entry entry permit, renewable once for 6 more months6 months3 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Residence permit validityinvestor in public investments (renewed automatically on payment of fees)10 years3 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Residence permits for senior company staffinvestor who establishes a company: one senior employee (executive director or adviser) and family, 10-year permit1 persons3 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Maximum visas for domestic workersinvestor: visas for domestic workers, by family size3 workers3 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
- Net worth requiredinvestor (public investment or real estate): unencumbered financial solvencyAED 10,000,0003 Feb 2019 – 2 Oct 2022 · UAE legislation 2018UAE · Golden visa
About the document
What it covers Original legal basis of the golden visa. Art. 4: investor routes (AED 10 million in an investment fund deposit, company capital or mixed investments, 10-year permit; AED 5 million real estate, 5-year permit); art. 12: in force 3 Feb 2019. Issued 4 Dec 2018, Official Gazette No. 643 of 16 Dec 2018.
Notes Arabic original, 8 pages; text layer uses Arabic presentation forms (normalise with NFKC before searching). Platform metadata: issued 04 Dec 2018, in force 03 Feb 2019, gazette 643 (16 Dec 2018). One amendment, 15 Apr 2020 (arts 1 and 8 only, talent categories). Replaced by Cabinet Resolution No. 8 of 2021, which we could not find online; that resolution was in turn repealed by Cabinet Resolution No. 65 of 2022 (art. 79). Quotes are copied from the platform's HTML text of this resolution (https://uaelegislation.gov.ae/ar/legislations/1212, read 2026-10-02), which has the same wording; the PDF text layer drops some glyphs and reverses brackets, so automatic quote matching against the PDF will fail. Page numbers refer to the PDF.
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