Basic salary versus the package
Take an AED 35,000 package, where the allowances holding the headline up do not count.
What you are paid
Basic salary
AED 25,000
Allowances
AED 10,000
AED 35,000 total, which reads like a comfortable pass.
What the route reads
Basic salary
AED 25,000
Allowances
AED 10,000
Counts the basic alone, leaving it AED 5,000 short of the AED 30,000 line.
Where salary applications usually go wrong
The basic itself is rarely a close call. The usual mistake is reading a strong package against the wrong line, and the file comes back rejected with the time and government charges already spent.
The larger cost is schooling, family timing and travel planned around a visa that was never secured.
We start with the basic figure on your contract, whatever the headline on your offer letter says, and tell you plainly where you stand.
If the basic clears AED 30,000 and your degree and employer paperwork hold up, we prepare the file to the authority's standard. Where it falls short, we say so and explain what would change it. Approval is for ICP or GDRFA Dubai to give.
Our Golden Visa page covers the salary route, and the residency overview places the routes side by side.
