Family Visa Holding

If you are planning to change jobs or transfer your visa from one sponsor to another within dubai and have your family under your sponsorship, don’t get worried or tense. The Immigration Authority has introduced the option of Family Visa Holding where you can hold your family visa until you transfer it from your existing sponsor to a new sponsor. With this service, you can hold your family visa for a maximum of 60 days. If a family sponsor wants to, he or she can tell the authorities that he or she would prefer not to cancel the family’s visa but rather to put it on hold until he or she finds a new sponsor for work. You can easily apply for this Family Visa Holding by visiting Amer Centre.

Family Visa Holding Process

Follow the below steps to hold your family visa in Dubai

• The labour card must be cancelled by your existing employer.
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• Visit Amer centre and place a request for putting your family visa on hold.
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• After Family visa holding Approval, Cancel your existing employment visa.
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• You should notify your new employer about the cancellation and request that your new residence visa application be processed.
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• Once the New Employment visa is stamped the family visa holding will be released by automatically from the system.

After submitting the new residence visa copy to the Amer Centre the security deposited amount will be refunded.