How to cancel your UAE entry permit
Stuck with an unused UAE entry permit? Here's your quick guide to cancellation
Dubai: Did you apply for an entry permit for an overseas employee or a family member you wish to sponsor? If there are any changes in your plans, it is important that you cancel their entry permit though the immigration authority with whom you applied.
In a post on its social media channels on May 16, the Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs and Port Security (ICP) shared the steps that you need to follow in order to complete the process.
How to cancel entry permit
As per the ICP, you need to follow these steps in order to cancel an entry permit:
1. Visit the ICP website – icp.gov.ae or use the smartphone application ‘UAEICP’, which is available for Apple and Android devices.
2. Log into your account, or use the UAE Pass to log in.
3. Submit a request to cancel the entry permit and attach the required documents.
4. Pay the fees and financial guarantees, if any, and then send the application.
5. The request will then be checked by ICP and once approved, the entry permit will be cancelled.
Muhammad Zahid, administration officer at Expert Solution Documents Clearing, explained how the entry permit cancellation can be applied for in two situations.
“It could either be for an employment case, where the company has applied for the entry permit of a worker they want to hire, or from a resident who wants to sponsor his or her family,” Zahid said.
“What is important to remember is that the entry permit can only be cancelled if it has not been used. If the person has already entered the UAE using the entry permit, the application is different,” he added.
What is important to remember is that the entry permit can only be cancelled if it has not been used. If the person has already entered the UAE using the entry permit, the application is different.
Muhammed Saifulla, documents clearance service in charge at Helal Al Furjan Typing Centre, also spoke about how this service can be helpful for companies and residents.
“If I am sponsoring my spouse or other family members, I will get them the ‘family residency entry permit’, on which they can enter the UAE. After that, I will have two months to apply for their medical fitness test, Emirates ID and visa. But if before that I change my plan, I can cancel their entry permit through this process,” Saifulla said.
If I am sponsoring my spouse or other family members, I will get them the ‘family residency entry permit’, on which they can enter the UAE. After that, I will have two months to apply for their medical fitness test, Emirates ID and visa. But if before that I change my plan, I can cancel their entry permit through this process.
He added that people can apply for this service either directly through the ICP, if they are in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain, or through the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs Dubai (GDRFA-D), if they have applied for the entry permit in Dubai. To find all the typing centres registered with ICP, you can visit the webpage here: https://icp.gov.ae/en/typing-offices/
“You can go to a typing centre that is registered with ICP or an Amer centre in Dubai as well, to apply for the cancellation. For ICP, you simply need to present the sponsor’s Emirates ID to apply for the cancellation. For Amer centres, the sponsor needs to visit the centre along with his or her Emirates ID,” he said.