Documents Required For Cancellation Of Employment Visa In Uae
This post is about the documents required for cancellation of employment visa in UAE. It is about the list of documents which are required to cancel the visa once you have acquired it. Cancelled your contract then wondering about the documentation process for cancelling your visa?
If you want to cancel your employment visa in UAE and return back to your home country, you will need the following documents: Resignation letter from company A letter from employer stating that they have no objection if you are cancelling your visa and offering you an exit stamp from the country Copies of passport including pass-page Bank statements Stamp paper
In the earlier posts, it is discussed that the applicant needs to fulfill some eligibility conditions to apply for residence visa in Dubai. He/she should earn minimum salary according to the set rules & regulations of the company and must have secured a job before applying for a work visa in U.A.E. One will be asked to provide following documents as proof of this commitment which is nothing but as a confirmation letter from employer stating the name of employee, mentioned cost & duration of employment.
Documents Required For Cancellation Of Employment Visa In Uae
If you a have a residence visa sponsored either by a family member or by your employer, and you decide to leave the country permanently, your residence visa must be cancelled officially.
Who must cancel your residence visa
Normally, only the sponsor can cancel your residence visa. You cannot process the application on your own.
If a company decides to cancel an employment visa of its employee, it must first approach Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation with an application to cancel the employee’s labour contract and labour card. The employee must also sign this application. Then, the employer should apply to General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) for visa cancellation.
The company must also cancel the work permit. For this, it must submit a letter signed by the employee stating that he has already received all his wages and end of services benefits to Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation.
An individual sponsoring his/her spouse, children and other dependents must cancel the dependents’ visas first before he cancels his/her own.
Cancellation must be processed through the GDRFA that stamped the residence visa in the first place.
How to cancel your residence visa
There are two ways to cancel your visa. You can do it either through a registered typing centre or online.
- Registered typing centreThe sponsor may visit any typing office registered by GDRFA in the respective emirate. The typing centre will fill the cancellation form on your behalf and process it online through the respective GDRFA.
- OnlineAlternatively, the sponsor may process the cancellation online through the respective GDRFA or through the eChannels platform of the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship.
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Documents required
The following documents are required for cancelling residence visa through GDRFA:
- cancellation form signed by the sponsor
- if the sponsor is a company or a firm, the cancellation form must be signed and sealed by the company stamp and a clearance certificate from Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation must be attached
- the original passport of the sponsored
- original identity card of the sponsored
- if the sponsored ones are out of the UAE, the sponsor may present the original passport or a computerised extract of their residence visas. (Kindly contact Naturalisation and Residency Dept to get a computerised extract of the residence visa.)