What to Do After Your Dubai Licence Is Issued: The First 90 Days, and the One Filing You Can Now Stop Doing

Most founders treat the trade licence as the finish line. It is closer to a starting gun.

The licence gives you the right to trade. What follows is a sequence of registrations and filings with real deadlines, some running from the day the licence is issued and some from the end of your financial year. Miss them and the penalties are administrative rather than dramatic, but they accumulate quietly and they are almost always discovered later than they happened.

There is also one item that used to sit firmly on this list and no longer does. Cabinet Decision No. 98 of 2024 cancelled Economic Substance notifications and reports for financial years ending after 31 December 2022 [5]. A considerable amount of published guidance still tells new companies to prepare an annual ESR filing. If yours does, it is out of date, and you should stop paying for it.

The order also matters more than the list. These obligations sit in a dependency chain, and getting them out of sequence is how a company that has done nothing wrong ends up unable to hire in month four. Ejari gates the licence renewal, the licence gates the establishment card, and the card gates every visa underneath it.

Since 2013, BusinessDubai.ae has registered UAE companies and run the compliance that follows. This guide sets out what applies in the first ninety days, what recurs annually, and where the expensive mistakes are.

What actually happens once the licence is issued?

Short answer: six things, and the order is set by lead time and dependency rather than by deadline.

Banking has the longest lead time and the highest failure rate, so it starts first even though its deadline is the softest of the six. The establishment card blocks the entire immigration track, so it comes before you promise anyone a visa or a start date.

Real Talk: The instinct is to work through this list by deadline, which puts banking last because nobody sets a date for it. That is exactly backwards. Sort by "how long could this take if it goes badly" rather than "when is it due", and the order above is what you get. Every item except banking is a filing you complete. Banking is an application somebody else assesses.

What has to happen in the first 30 days?

Short answer: open the immigration file, start the bank application, and register for Corporate Tax. Everything else can follow.

The two day-one items are the ones with external dependencies, and both sit in front of things you will want to commit to, such as payroll dates and employee start dates. Everything else is within your control and can absorb a slip.

Our EmaraTax portal guide covers the registration mechanics, and our establishment card guide covers the immigration file.

When do you have to register for Corporate Tax, and when is the return due?

Short answer: registration is required whether or not you owe anything, and the return is due within nine months of your tax period end.

Registration and filing are two different obligations, and conflating them is the most common early error.

Registration is required for taxable persons, and the Federal Tax Authority has issued specified timeframes by category [4]. Registration is not conditional on owing tax. A company with no profit, or one electing Small Business Relief, still registers.

The return is due, together with any payment, within nine months from the end of the relevant tax period [1]. Note what that is measured from: the end of your tax period, not 31 December and not the anniversary of your licence.

The rate structure is straightforward. 0% on taxable income up to AED 375,000, and 9% above it [3].

Quick Math: A company with AED 600,000 of taxable income pays nothing on the first AED 375,000 and 9% on the remaining AED 225,000, which is AED 20,250. That is a 3.4% effective rate on the whole AED 600,000. The headline 9% is a marginal rate, not an average one, and founders budgeting 9% of profit overstate the liability at this size by roughly a third.

The trap here is the belief that nil tax means nil obligation. It does not. The election that produces nil taxable income is made on the return, so a company claiming relief must register and file in order to claim it. Our UAE corporate tax filing guide covers the mechanics, and our post-setup services team runs registration and the annual return so it does not depend on someone remembering.

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Can you elect Small Business Relief, and what do you give up?

Short answer: yes, at or below AED 3,000,000 of revenue, and it now runs to 31 December 2029, but it is an election with real trade-offs.

Small Business Relief treats a qualifying business as having no taxable income for the period. Ministerial Decision No. 131 of 2026, issued 29 July 2026, amended Ministerial Decision No. 73 of 2023 and extended availability to tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2029, from a previous cut-off of 2026 [6].

Three points deserve emphasis because they are where the relief is misused.

The threshold looks backwards as well as forwards. It applies to the current tax period and all previous ones [6]. Breaching AED 3,000,000 once closes later periods too, even if revenue falls back. Model this before you sign the contract that tips you over.

It is not available to a Qualifying Free Zone Person [6]. A free zone company weighing the 0% qualifying income regime against Small Business Relief is choosing between them, not stacking them. Our Qualifying Free Zone Person guide covers what the 0% regime requires, including substance conditions and audited financial statements, and the fact that selling to UAE consumers or into the mainland is generally an excluded activity.

Splitting a business to stay under the threshold engages the general anti-abuse rule in Article 50 of the Corporate Tax Law [6]. Two companies where there was commercially one is exactly the arrangement the rule addresses.

Common Mistake: Treating the relief as an exemption rather than an election. Companies conclude that being under AED 3,000,000 means being outside the system, and then neither register nor file. The relief is claimed on a return that has to exist. Our Small Business Relief guide covers the conditions and the exclusions in full.

VAT: which threshold applies, and which one catches people out?

Short answer: mandatory at AED 375,000, voluntary at AED 187,500, and the voluntary limb includes expenses, which surprises pre-revenue businesses.

The words "or taxable expenses" do real work. A pre-revenue business with significant UAE costs can be eligible to register voluntarily long before it sells anything, and for a business whose customers are VAT-registered that is often worth doing, because it makes input VAT recoverable.

The mistake in the other direction is treating AED 375,000 as an annual figure assessed in arrears. It is not an end-of-year calculation. Once you cross it the obligation is live, and a business that crosses it in month four and registers in month eleven has a gap it will need to explain.

Free zone companies are not exempt from VAT by virtue of being in a free zone. Some zones are VAT Designated Zones, which changes the treatment of goods movements but not the registration obligation for services or mainland-facing sales. Our designated zone VAT guide covers that distinction, our VAT registration and compliance guide covers the process, and our free zone company setup page covers which structures sit where.

What is the UBO register and who files it?

Short answer: every UAE company maintains one with its licensing authority, and it has to be kept current rather than filed once.

Every UAE company must maintain a register of its Ultimate Beneficial Owners with its licensing authority, updating it whenever ownership or control changes.

This is a low-effort obligation that generates penalties out of proportion to its difficulty, precisely because it is easy to forget. The register is not a document filed at incorporation and then ignored. A change of shareholder, a change of manager with control, or a corporate restructuring all trigger an update.

For companies with layered ownership, working out who the beneficial owner actually is takes more thought than the filing. If your structure involves a holding company or a foreign parent, establish the answer at incorporation rather than under time pressure during a bank review.

Our UBO requirements guide covers the disclosure rules, and our offshore company formation page covers holding structures where the beneficial ownership question needs answering at the design stage rather than afterwards.

Why does the bank account take longest?

Short answer: because it is the only step where a third party can simply say no.

Every other item on this list is a filing you complete. A bank account is an application a compliance function assesses, and UAE banks decline business account applications routinely, particularly for newly incorporated companies with foreign shareholders, free zone licences in generic activities, or business models the bank cannot easily verify.

Start it on day one. What determines the outcome is the quality of your documentation, the coherence of your business model, and whether the bank can see plausible transaction flows.

Once you are approved, the account costs are worth comparing properly, because the headline monthly fee is rarely the number that matters.

Quick Math: The monthly fee spread across these accounts is AED 79 to AED 250, which is about AED 2,052 a year. Local transfer pricing ranges from included to AED 25 per transaction [7]. At forty supplier or contractor payments a month, the transfer line alone is roughly AED 12,000 a year, about six times the entire monthly-fee difference. If you pay freelancers or suppliers frequently, compare transfer pricing before you compare headline fees.

WPS payroll pricing also differs. Mashreq is free, Ruya is free to set up and then AED 31.50 per file per month, and Wio's position is not flagged in this data [7]. Card foreign exchange markups run at 3% plus scheme charges for Ruya and 2.5% on non-AED transactions for Mashreq plus a scheme fee of about 1.15% [7]. Confirm current pricing with the bank.

Our guides to opening a corporate bank account in Dubai and what to do after a rejection cover the document set and the reasons applications fail, and our comparison of UAE business accounts works through the full pricing.

Common Mistake: Committing to supplier terms, payroll dates or platform payouts on the assumption that an account will open in two weeks. It sometimes does. It also sometimes takes two months, and the businesses that get hurt are the ones that made promises against the optimistic case.

What is the establishment card, and why does it come before visas?

Short answer: it opens the company's immigration file, and no residence visa can be issued until it exists, including the owner's own.

The establishment card, sometimes called the immigration card, registers your company with the immigration authority. Until it exists, you cannot apply for a residence visa for anyone.

It is a short administrative step that becomes a bottleneck purely through sequencing. Founders plan a hiring start date, or their own family's arrival, and then discover the immigration file was never opened. Do it early, because it costs little and unblocks everything downstream.

Once it is in place, the visa sequence runs: entry permit, status change, medical, Emirates ID, then visa stamping. The medical is the step that most often introduces delay.

Having an immigration file does not mean unlimited visas. Your licence type, premises and zone determine a quota, which founders regularly discover after hiring rather than before. Our visa quota guide covers the allocation, and our guide to work permits versus business licences sets out how the licence, card, permit and visa relate.

Emirate choice affects cost here rather than sequence. The chain is the same everywhere, and our business setup in Abu Dhabi page covers one alternative to a Dubai licence with the same post-setup obligations attached.

Do you need to register on goAML?

Short answer: only if you are a Designated Non-Financial Business or Profession, and many founders do not know whether they are.

The DNFBP categories cover real estate brokers and agents, dealers in precious metals and stones, auditors and accountants, and company service providers, among others. If you fall inside one, goAML registration and an AML compliance framework are core licence conditions with real enforcement behind them.

General trading companies, agencies, consultancies outside the regulated professions and e-commerce businesses generally sit outside it. If you are in any doubt, establish it in the first month rather than at the first audit. Our UAE AML and CFT compliance guide sets out the categories.

Real Talk: The founders who get caught by this are almost never the ones who considered the question and got it wrong. They are the ones who never considered it, because their activity list included something like "precious metals trading" or "company formation services" as a secondary activity nobody read closely. Check the activities on your licence, not your description of your business.

Which filing can you now stop doing?

Short answer: Economic Substance, for financial years ending after 31 December 2022.

Cabinet Decision No. 98 of 2024 cancelled the requirement for licensees conducting Relevant Activities to submit an Economic Substance Notification and Economic Substance Report for financial years ending after 31 December 2022 [5]. The Ministry of Finance announced the change on 14 October 2024. Fines previously issued under ESR for those years were cancelled, and fines already paid were refunded [5].

ESR still applies to financial years from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2022 [5]. So if you have a genuinely historic exposure, it is real. For a company incorporated in 2026, ESR is not on your calendar at all.

This matters because guidance lags legislation. A good deal of published material, including some from advisers, still lists an annual ESR filing among a new company's obligations. If you are being quoted for ESR preparation on a 2026 financial year, ask which decision it is being prepared under.

Two cautions. First, ADGM and DIFC operate their own registrar confirmations, separate from the federal regime [5], so a specific ADGM or DIFC entity may still have a filing that sounds similar. Check what your registrar asks for rather than assuming the federal cancellation covers everything. Second, the cancellation removes a filing. It does not remove the commercial reality that a company claiming to be managed from the UAE should be able to demonstrate it, particularly where tax residency or treaty access matters. Our tax residency certificate guide covers that test, which is separate and still very much alive.

Our dedicated UAE Economic Substance Regulations guide covers what remains and what does not.

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What does the dependency chain actually look like?

Short answer: Ejari gates the licence, the licence gates the establishment card, and the card gates every visa, which is why problems surface months after they are created.

Cancellation runs in exact reverse: dependants, then the individual, then employees, then the establishment card, then the licence. Companies closing down get this wrong constantly and cannot cancel a licence because visas are still live underneath it. Our visa cancellation guide covers the sequence and our company liquidation guide covers the wind-down.

Real Talk: A late tenancy renewal in March can hold up a visa in June, and the causal link is invisible when you are looking at the visa. We have watched founders spend two weeks debugging an immigration problem that a landlord created a quarter earlier. When something stops working on the immigration side, walk the chain downwards before you touch the application itself.

What recurs every year?

Short answer: five renewals, two or three tax filings, monthly payroll if you employ, and an audit if your zone or your tax position requires one.

Our statutory audit requirements guide covers who actually needs audited statements, a question free zone companies often answer wrongly in both directions.

Pro Tip: Put the three chained renewals, tenancy, licence and establishment card, on one calendar entry with a sixty-day warning rather than three separate ones. They depend on each other, so managing them separately is precisely how gaps appear.

What obligations attach the moment you hire?

Short answer: the full labour law, with specific numbers, from the first work permit.

Once you employ people, Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 applies, in force since 2 February 2022.

Note that Article 27 provides only that the Cabinet may issue a resolution determining a minimum wage. The law itself sets no figure [8]. Our labour law guide for employers sets these out in full, and our end of service gratuity guide works through the Article 51 calculation.

What does getting this wrong actually cost?

Short answer: less in headline fines than in second-order damage, which is exactly why it goes unmanaged.

A lapsed trade licence blocks bank transactions and freezes visa processing. A missed Corporate Tax registration accrues penalties and complicates the first return. An out-of-date UBO register surfaces during a bank review or a change of ownership, which is the worst possible moment.

On the immigration side the numbers are published. Outside a grace period the fine is AED 50 per person per day, flat rather than escalating, plus an AED 100 smart services fee [9]. Critically, paying does not resolve the violation. ICP requires that the status is adjusted or the person leaves the UAE [9]. Golden, Green and Blue residence holders and their family members have a 180-day grace period after expiry or cancellation [9].

Penalty amounts for tax and licensing obligations change and vary by authority, so we have not quoted figures we cannot source. Confirm current penalties with the FTA or your licensing authority. The reliable generalisation is that every one of these obligations is cheaper to meet on time than to remediate, and our tax procedures and penalty framework guide covers how the regime is structured.

Real Client Stories

Real examples from businesses we have helped set up. Names have been changed for privacy.

Imran, the founder who filed nothing because he owed nothing

Imran ran a two-person consultancy under AED 1 million of revenue. He established that Small Business Relief applied to a company his size and concluded that nil taxable income meant nothing to file. Registration and a return were both still required, and the election is made on the return itself [6].

The exposure was administrative and it was resolved, but it had run for two tax periods before anyone looked. This is the single most common post-setup error we see, and the extension of Small Business Relief to 2029 will make it more common, by increasing the number of periods in which a company can quietly assume it is outside the system.

His comment: "I read that I did not have to pay anything and stopped reading. The sentence I skipped was the one about electing it on a return."

Sofia, the founder who promised a start date the bank did not agree to

Sofia hired a senior employee with a start date six weeks out, on the assumption that the corporate account would be open by then. The application went into enhanced due diligence because the shareholding involved an offshore parent, and it took eleven weeks. Payroll had to be bridged personally, which is untidy and, depending on how it is done, creates its own accounting questions.

Nothing went wrong procedurally. The bank did exactly what banks do. The error was treating an application as a formality with a predictable date, when it is the one step in the whole sequence that somebody else controls.

Her comment: "Everything else on my list had a deadline I could meet. The bank was the only thing where meeting my end of it changed nothing."

Waleed, the business still paying for a filing that was cancelled

Waleed's small trading company was being invoiced annually for Economic Substance notification and report preparation, three years after the requirement was cancelled for financial years ending after 31 December 2022 [5]. The adviser had not updated their service list, and the invoice line item had simply carried forward.

It was a small amount of money. It was a much more useful signal about whether the compliance provider was tracking legislation or reprinting last year's checklist, and once we looked, two other line items on the same invoice had the same problem.

His comment: "The money was not the point. If they missed a cancellation that was announced by the Ministry of Finance, what else were they not reading?"

Get the first 90 days sequenced properly

The post-licence period is not difficult, but it is sequential, and the dependencies are not obvious from the outside.

Banking starts first because it can fail and because you do not control it. The establishment card comes before any visa promise, including your own. Corporate Tax registration happens whether or not you will owe anything, and the relief that produces a nil result is elected on a return you still have to file. VAT depends on a threshold that is live rather than annual. The UBO register is maintained rather than filed once. And Economic Substance, which used to sit firmly on this list, no longer does for any financial year ending after 31 December 2022 [5].

Underneath all of it runs the chain: Ejari to licence to establishment card to visa, in that order going up and in exact reverse going down. Most of the post-setup failures we are asked to fix are not failures of effort. They are failures of order.

Since 2013, BusinessDubai.ae has handled UAE company formation and the compliance that follows it. Our post-setup services team runs Corporate Tax and VAT registration, the UBO register, banking introductions, the establishment card and visas, WPS payroll and the annual filings as a single workflow, on one calendar, because the parts are easy to separate and expensive to get out of order. If you are still deciding on structure, our mainland company setup page sets out what the onshore route carries in ongoing obligations.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the first thing to do after getting a Dubai trade licence?

Start the corporate bank account application, because it has the longest lead time and is the only step a third party can decline. In parallel, apply for the establishment card, since nothing on the immigration side can proceed without it, and complete Corporate Tax registration.

When is the UAE Corporate Tax return due?

Within nine months from the end of your tax period, together with payment of any Corporate Tax due [1]. For a financial year ending 31 December that means the following 30 September.

Do I need to register for Corporate Tax if I will not owe any tax?

Yes. Registration is not conditional on having a liability, and a company electing Small Business Relief still registers and files, because the election is made on the return [4][6].

What is Small Business Relief and who can elect it?

It treats a business with revenue at or below AED 3,000,000 as having no taxable income, on election on the Corporate Tax return. Ministerial Decision No. 131 of 2026 extended it to tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2029 [6]. It is not available to a Qualifying Free Zone Person.

Does Small Business Relief apply automatically?

No. It is elected on the Corporate Tax return, which means registering and filing in order to claim it [6]. Assuming it applies automatically is the most common post-setup error we see.

What happens if I cross AED 3 million in revenue once?

The threshold applies to the current tax period and all previous ones, so breaching it once closes later periods too, even if revenue falls back [6]. Model this before signing the contract that tips you over.

Can I split my business into two companies to stay under the threshold?

Artificially separating a business to claim the relief engages the general anti-abuse rule in Article 50 of the Corporate Tax Law [6]. Two companies where there was commercially one is precisely the arrangement that rule addresses.

What is the VAT registration threshold in the UAE?

AED 375,000 of taxable supplies and imports for mandatory registration, and AED 187,500 of taxable supplies, imports or taxable expenses for voluntary registration [2]. The rate is 5%.

Should I register for VAT voluntarily?

Consider it if your clients are VAT-registered UAE businesses, because it makes input VAT on your setup and running costs recoverable. If your customers are overseas consumers, early registration mostly buys you a filing obligation.

Do I still need to file an Economic Substance notification and report?

Not for financial years ending after 31 December 2022. Cabinet Decision No. 98 of 2024 cancelled the notification and report requirement for those years, and cancelled or refunded related fines [5]. ESR still applies to financial years from 2019 to 2022.

Does the ESR cancellation apply to ADGM and DIFC companies?

ADGM and DIFC operate their own registrar confirmations, separate from the federal regime [5]. Check what your registrar actually asks for rather than assuming the federal cancellation covers everything.

What is an establishment card and do I need one?

It registers your company with the immigration authority and is a prerequisite for any residence visa application, including your own. It renews annually and is the step most often forgotten.

How long does a UAE corporate bank account take to open?

It varies widely, from around a week to several months, depending on shareholding, activity, licence type and the bank's appetite. Applications are also declined outright. Plan against the pessimistic case.

Which UAE business bank account is cheapest?

On monthly fee, Ruya Standard at AED 79 is the lowest in our comparison, with Wio Essential and Mashreq NeoBiz Pro at AED 99 and FAB Basic at AED 250 [7]. Transfer pricing usually matters more than the monthly fee at any real payment volume.

What is the UBO register and how often do I update it?

It records your Ultimate Beneficial Owners with the licensing authority, and it is updated whenever ownership or control changes rather than on a fixed schedule. A change of shareholder or of a manager with control triggers an update.

Who has to register on goAML?

Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions, which include real estate brokers and agents, dealers in precious metals and stones, auditors and accountants, and company service providers. Most general trading, agency and e-commerce businesses fall outside it.

Does a free zone company have fewer post-setup obligations?

Not materially. Free zone companies register for Corporate Tax, register for VAT once they cross the threshold, maintain a UBO register and renew licences and visas like anyone else. Many zones additionally require audited financial statements, which are also a condition of Qualifying Free Zone Person status.

Why did my visa application stall when my licence is valid?

Check the establishment card, and then check the tenancy. Ejari gates the licence renewal, the licence gates the card, and the card gates every visa. A problem at the bottom of that chain appears at the top months later.

In what order do I cancel things if I close the company?

The reverse of setup: dependants, then the individual, then employees, then the establishment card, then the licence. Companies that try to cancel the licence first find they cannot, because visas are still live under it.

What are my obligations once I hire someone?

The full labour law applies, including a maximum six-month probation, 30 days annual leave, notice of not less than 30 and not more than 90 days, and end of service of 21 days basic wage per year for the first five years and 30 days thereafter, capped at two years' wage [8].

What is the fine for overstaying or a status violation?

AED 50 per person per day, flat rather than escalating, plus an AED 100 smart services fee [9]. Paying does not resolve the violation. The status must be adjusted or the person must leave the UAE.

What is the most common post-setup mistake?

Assuming that no tax due means no filing due. Registration and filing obligations exist independently of liability, and the reliefs that produce a nil result are claimed on a return that has to be filed [6].

Related reading: UAE Corporate Tax Filing, Small Business Relief Extended to 2029, How to Open a Corporate Bank Account in Dubai

References

[1] Federal Tax Authority. Guidance urging submission of Corporate Tax returns and settlement of Corporate Tax liabilities within nine months from the end of the tax period, to avoid late filing and late payment penalties. FTA on the nine-month deadline

[2] Federal Tax Authority. Registration for VAT, setting the mandatory registration threshold at AED 375,000 of taxable supplies and imports, the voluntary registration threshold at AED 187,500 of taxable supplies, imports or taxable expenses, and the standard rate of 5%. FTA VAT registration

[3] The Official Portal of the UAE Government. Corporate tax overview, including the 0% rate on taxable income up to AED 375,000 and the 9% rate above it. u.ae corporate tax

[4] Federal Tax Authority. Decision on specified timeframes for Corporate Tax registration, confirming that registration obligations apply by category and independently of whether tax is payable. FTA on registration timeframes

[5] UAE Ministry of Finance. Announcement of the amendment to the Cabinet Decision on Economic Substance requirements, being Cabinet Decision No. 98 of 2024 amending Cabinet Decision No. 57 of 2020, cancelling the Economic Substance Notification and Report requirement for financial years ending after 31 December 2022, cancelling fines issued for those years and refunding fines already paid, announced 14 October 2024. ESR continues to apply to financial years from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2022, and ADGM and DIFC operate their own registrar confirmations separately from the federal regime. MoF announcement on Economic Substance

[6] UAE Ministry of Finance. Ministerial Decision No. 131 of 2026, issued 29 July 2026, amending Ministerial Decision No. 73 of 2023 on Small Business Relief: availability extended to tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2029, AED 3,000,000 revenue threshold applying to the current and all previous tax periods, election required on the Corporate Tax return, no availability to a Qualifying Free Zone Person or to multinational groups above AED 3.15 billion consolidated revenue, other reliefs switched off for an elected period, losses and disallowed net interest carried forward, and artificial separation engaging the anti-abuse rule in Article 50 of Federal Decree-Law No. 47 of 2022. MoF financial legislation

[7] BusinessDubai.ae. UAE business banking comparison as at August 2026, covering monthly fees from AED 79 to AED 250, minimum average balance and fall-below terms, local and international transfer pricing, WPS payroll charges and card foreign exchange markups. Figures should be confirmed with the bank before you apply. UAE business bank account comparison

[8] Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation. Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 Regarding the Regulation of Employment Relationships, in force 2 February 2022: Article 9 (probation), Article 13 (records), Article 17 (hours), Article 19 (overtime), Article 27 (the Cabinet may determine a minimum wage), Article 29 (annual leave), Article 31 (sick leave), Article 43 (notice) and Article 51 (end of service). Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 (PDF)

[9] Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Port Security (ICP). Payment of visa or residence violation fine at AED 50 per person per day plus an AED 100 smart services fee, with status required to be adjusted or the person to leave the UAE after payment, and the 180-day grace period for Golden, Green and Blue residence holders and their family members. ICP visa and residence violation fines

[10] BusinessDubai.ae. Internal data from UAE company registrations and post-setup compliance work since 2013, including Corporate Tax and VAT registration patterns, bank onboarding timelines and decline reasons, and the tenancy to licence to establishment card to visa dependency chain. businessdubai.ae