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a bunch of people have been reaching out to me asking about some recent changes to the six-month rule in UAE and there's some confusion on this I don't know exactly where it comes from but for some reason people have a little bit of mistaken impression and so today I'm going to tell you about the changes that UAE has introduced to the six-month rule pertaining to resident permit holders so stick around we will discuss that and how it affects you and if not this what are some other Solutions so let's dive in now to give some context to this it's helpful to understand the way that UAE residence permits have worked for quite a while and this is that the majority of them you need to visit the country once every six months or typically once every 180 days so what this would mean is that let's say that you leave on I don't know the first of February and you decide to be away for a while well you need to come back in six months or less from that period of time or 180 days from that time so you can kind of calculate February March April May June July right so that would be kind of give you the Benchmark for how long it would be and if you didn't you could have your Visa canceled okay and the idea was that it was consistently canceled now this is not a crazy amount of time that you need to spend in the country I mean literally all you had to do was fly into the airport cross customs and go back out and you would meet that standard having been in the UAE once every six months and said this was perfectly fine if you're for example transiting from Europe to Asia or back if you're you know going to Africa something like that it's a great Hub you could fly through there it's pretty easy to maintain even if you're not living in UAE you can also fly although it's a little bit inconvenient to North America to South America in fact actually the most popular route of flying from Japan to Brazil is through Dubai so there's a bunch of options for you in this regard however there are certain times where just because of the nature of Life somebody might be traveling they might be in the other side of the world and it's super inconvenient to come back from some other part of the world into UAE so they decided to make some changes to this recently and I think probably because of a lot of seeming Global pressure Etc the belief that some people had was oh no now you need to spend six months in the country and if you don't you're gonna have your Visa cancel this is not true in fact the opposite basically is true okay so the amount of time you need to spend in UAE has not gone up there's no new if you're not in the country for six months you'll have an issue what it is actually is that whereas before your Visa could get automatically canceled right meaning if you were out of the country for seven months for example then your bees would get canceled and that's a pain now they allow you to re-enter through a re-entry permit so there is kind of some allowance for people who are going to stay out for longer now what they're saying is you have to apply in advance there's a website you can go and do it through you have to supply a reason for why you were out and you know pay it's I think like 100 Dirhams a day or something like that or 100 grams per 30 days anyway it's a nominal fee it's not not a lot of money for the extra period of time that you're up I believe it's 100 Dirhams for 30 days so you can go a long time without having issues now conceivably there is some limitation on how long they will allow you to extend this you can't just indefinitely be out and not have issues with your Visa but they're being more permissive in terms of what it is that they're allowing and so obviously this makes things a little bit easier I know there's certainly been times and I've been traveling that I think okay you know if it happened to be that I was this what was going on in my life at that time happened to show up in the end of this six month window rather than the middle of this six month window then that would be more of a concern anyway just to clarify so number one it's not that you need to spend six months a year you don't you need to visit once every six months however now they're permitting you to be on go beyond that and basically apply you have to apply in advance before coming and extend it your Visa will no longer automatically be canceled so that's pretty cool number two this six months thing is not twice in a one-year period it always resets from the time you leave so if you come to UAE you're in UAE for let's say three months and then you leave well now you have six months to come back again so that's kind of an explanation of how it works now this is not going to be the case for all visas some of the Visas are more permissive and so for example if you get a golden Visa golden visas have no requirement to be in the country so pretty easy to maintain obviously if you're in that situation now they typically have to be renewed depending on the situation every five or ten years but five or ten years is a pretty long time I don't think it's too much of a sacrifice to say that somebody has to come back once every 10 years in order to renew their visa so pretty simple in that regard and pretty excessive life as I've mentioned I've got some other videos you can check out on some of the golden Visa programs how to get golden visas how the requirements have come down it's pretty accessible for real estate investment in fact I think it's almost worth it if you're going to invest in some real estate anyway to do it and get a UA gold Visa just so you have that option alternatively because it's definitely not a large amount of money and you can find some okay deals I wouldn't say that the real estate market is attractive at this point in time there's a period of time during covid where it was but not anymore now it's questionable but you know certainly you're probably not going to do too terribly if you go and shop around and find a good deal so anyway hope that helps if you have questions if you're interested in getting a residency permit in UAE if you're interested in forming company if you're interested in going somewhere else and figure there's some other solution please reach out to us you can book a call with me calendar.com or send a message through offshorescitizen.net and we will be happy to help you