22 July, 2008

DMC Visa Cancellation

Anybody here know what Dubai Media City charges to cancel a residence visa?
Posted by Keef at 2:05 am

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tariff 2008 for DMC/DIC/KV.

22 July, 2008 08:19
Keef said...

Dxb Ent: thanx.

22 July, 2008 16:20
Anonymous said...

its very high

23 July, 2008 11:48
Mme Cyn said...

210 dhs? (If I read it right). That's not bad -- I just wonder why they get you coming AND going.... oops, it's Dubai!

23 July, 2008 15:35
Keef said...

There'll be a story coming up...

23 July, 2008 21:32
nzm said...

It's damn expensive if your visa has already expired though...

24 July, 2008 21:30
Keef said...

NZM: looks like you have some experience! I'm still trying to find out why they want to charge me dhs 1300 for a visa that expired because I was out of the country for more than six months and that also expired because its 3 years was up last December. Is there something I don't understand about the English language? How can you cancel a visa that has expired (twice)?

24 July, 2008 22:06
Anonymous said...

keefieboy, you don't. It's automatically expired. However, you need to 'cancel it' if you are on X company's quota of residency visas.

ie. as far as TECOM is concerned, you are still employed by X company. The fact that your residency permit has expired is irrelevant here. If company X has a quota of 10 employees and they currently have 9 active employees, plus you.. they cannot hire someone new to replace you.

I understand you had your own shop, so I'm not sure what your relationship is with your former company. Did you sell it? Do you still own part of it?

I suggest you drop the GSO a line and see what needs to be done exactly. I highly doubt you would be required to actually renew your residency permit.

24 July, 2008 22:39
nzm said...

What Dubai Entrepreneur said.

Keefie: if they only want to charge you 1,300dir then I would advise you to do it ASAP.

I didn't want to renew my residency but they still pinged me big-time for the cancellation even though, as you say, it expired as soon as I was out of the country for 6 months.

5,000dir later, plus 580dir for a supposed lost DIC ID card (which we had submitted with the paperwork but this was denied by TECOM), I was no longer an employee of my own company (co-owned with J) and no longer a resident of Dubai.

Then, because we wanted to keep the company trading and I was listed as the General Manager, it cost another 1,500dir to change the Manager's name on the Trade License and issue a new certificate.

Double whammy.

At the end of the year, we re-evaluating whether it's worth it for us to keep the company open in Dubai. It's costing more than it is to run our German operation.

25 July, 2008 03:02
Keef said...

Dxb Ent/NZM: talking about my own visa that was associated with my Freelancer Permit - not a company so there's no quota of visas. I have been talking to GSO, but they haven't been listening to me!

25 July, 2008 11:32
nzm said...

They'll getcha any way they can!

25 July, 2008 16:16
Anonymous said...

Make the residents pay tax and give them rights and finish from all this.

12 August, 2008 04:25

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