UAE Golden Visa for your family

Our arithmetic from DLD’s list (investor total + family file + per-person fee + AED 100 per sponsored person). Health insurance and attestation are extra. DLD confirms the final amount.

1. Sponsor first

   Your Golden Visa, or at least the approval path the authority is actually using, has to be real. A property that does not yet meet AED 2 million cannot sponsor anyone.

2. Civil documents

   Marriage and birth certificates issued outside the UAE are certified, and often attested and translated, before DLD will treat them as the documents on its list.

3. Insurance and photos

   Health insurance is on DLD’s family list, and ICP requires comprehensive cover for family members in the investor category. A travel policy is not that cover.

4. Each person is a file

   A spouse, a child and a parent do not share one form. Fees are per person, plus the family file once, as the table above shows.

The order of medical, biometrics and Emirates ID for the sponsor is on the process page. Family applications are the last of those stages, not the first.

ICP allows residence permits for children regardless of age. That is different from an ordinary employment-visa household, where sons are often limited by age. DLD still asks for an undertaking that sons or daughters over 18 are unmarried, and for certified birth certificates.

If the mother is the Golden Visa holder and she sponsors the children, DLD asks for a notarised no-objection letter from the father. The letter is a document, not a suggestion. If the parents are divorced or the father cannot be found, say so before the file is built. Do not send a self-written note in place of the notarised letter.

Student Golden Visa holders are narrower. GDRFA Dubai says high-school achievers may sponsor parents only, not siblings, and university graduates may sponsor a spouse and children only with an employment contract, steady income and housing. Those limits are on the student page. Do not promise a teenager that a parent’s student permit works like an investor permit.

A family residence is permission to live as a sponsored relative. It is not, on the pages this site cites, a work permit or a school place. A spouse who will take a job needs the labour and residence steps that job requires. A school decides its own admissions. Anyone who sells the Golden Visa as “school fees included” or “the spouse can work anywhere” is not quoting ICP or DLD.

If the sponsor later sells the property or leaves a job that was the basis of their own visa, the family’s cards do not answer that question. Read selling the property and time outside the UAE against the sponsor’s category, not against the dependant’s photo.

When the family’s own permits near expiry, each person needs a basis of their own or a new sponsor. A spouse who never met the AED 2 million test does not inherit the investor category by bereavement. Plan the next route while the permits are still valid: another property share, a company route, or a skilled-professional file if the person actually meets it. The eligibility page is the list. THAJ will not invent a compassionate category that the authority has not published.