One visa unpacks into five lines.
The headline visa fee is the permit. Four more charges sit underneath it, which is why one visa rarely fits a single number, and why the quote looks lighter than the truth.
- 01
Entry permit and stamping
The government charge to issue and place the visa. The headline fee, and only the start.
- 02
Medical fitness test
A required screening per applicant, with a faster-result option. One per person, every time.
- 03
Emirates ID
The mandatory ID card, issued for the visa term and priced by duration. A separate line per resident.
- 04
Health insurance, then again
Compulsory cover priced by age and plan. It renews every year the person holds the visa.
- 05
The desk allocation it triggers
Many licences cap visas against the workspace held. Pass the cap and a larger desk or office is the indirect cost.
Set by your licence allocation, not us
Add a second visa and you compound, not double.
When two quotes for the same company sit far apart, the visa line is where the gap opens. The count is the variable founders most often underestimate.
The first visa
The full bundle, not the permit alone. Already several thousand dirhams above a permit-only line.
The second adds its own
Another medical, another Emirates ID, another policy. The bundle repeats in full, never shared.
The one that forces an upgrade
The visa that passes your licence cap forces a larger desk or different package, a cost born from undercounting.
Because insurance and the visa renew on their cycles, an undercount is not a one-time miss. It returns every year until corrected.
Read the bundle, not the stamping fee.
The figure that matters is the all-in, per-person cost of a visa with its medical, Emirates ID, and first insurance year, multiplied by the headcount you need and checked against your licence allocation. Cost two quotes to the same headcount and most of the gap disappears.
Indicative, not a quote: a zero-visa company sits near the bottom of its route, a multi-visa company near the top, which is why the same structure spans a wide band. Where you fall is a decision, not a sticker price. We scope your exact number privately, before you commit. The other layers are on the real numbers overview.
We price each visa in full, then check it against the allocation before you commit.
Costed as the bundle it is, against the headcount you need. The permit, the medical, the Emirates ID, and the first insurance year. Not a promise of the lowest per-visa price, but a number that covers the whole visa and the right number of people, so it stops surprising you later. The long-term residence route is on our Golden Visa page; how we price each setup layer is on the company setup page. If two quotes diverge on the visa line, one conversation settles it.