Who This is for
An employer cancelled the visa, the grace period ran out while you were arranging the next one, and the counter has been running since.
Fines are per person. A household of five sitting six months past expiry is a five-figure problem, not a rounding error.
Some cases require an exit permit before departure; some are held up by an absconding report or a case registered against you.
An old fine, a cancelled visa recorded incorrectly, or a case filed by a former sponsor can sit on the record for years.
Bans and unpaid fines surface during Golden Visa applications, company formation, and bank onboarding — usually at the worst moment.
What it Costs to Do Nothing
Applied per person, and it does not stop accruing. A prolonged overstay also requires an exit permit (out-pass) before departure — typically AED 200–300 as a one-off.
Grace periods differ substantially by visa type, and the period is counted from cancellation — not from the date you were told about it. The single most common reason people believe they are inside the window when they are not. We check the actual record rather than the assumption.
What We Do
Establish the real position
We pull the actual status against passport and Emirates ID — the fine as the system calculates it, the visa’s true cancellation date, and whether any ban, absconding report or case is attached. This routinely differs from what the client believes.
Choose the route
Negotiated reduction, a waiver application on documented grounds, an exit permit and clean re-entry, a status change from inside the country, or lifting a ban. Each has different evidence requirements and different odds.
Prepare the file
Reductions are granted on evidence, not on explanation. Medical records, employer correspondence, proof of the sponsor’s failure to cancel properly — assembled and submitted in the form the authority accepts.
Attend and negotiate
We appear at the immigration department or typing centre and handle the application in person. This is the part that cannot be done remotely, and it is where the outcome is actually decided.
Close it properly
Payment, confirmation the record is clear, and — where you intend to stay — the new visa arranged so the same gap doesn’t reopen.
What We Need from You
If you are missing most of this, we can still start. The first stage of our work is retrieving the record.
Fixed Fee, Families as Families, Honest Answers
Our fee is fixed and agreed in writing before we start, based on the number of people and the complexity of the file — never a percentage of what you save. Our interest is in closing your file, not in inflating the number we started from. We do not quote a fee before seeing the record; anyone who does is guessing.
We handle families as families: each person assessed individually, submitted together. Members of the same household often have different visa types, different cancellation dates and different grace periods — treating them as one case produces the wrong answer for at least one person.
Some fines cannot be reduced. You will hear that from us before you pay us, not after.
Where it Goes Wrong
Frequently they started the cancellation and did not complete it, or completed it on a date other than the one they gave you. The grace period runs from what the system records, not from the conversation.
A former sponsor files an absconding report and the employee learns of it at the airport. This changes the case entirely — the fine becomes the smaller problem.
Payment settles the money. It does not lift a ban, close a report, or restore your ability to sponsor a family member. People discover this months later when the next application is refused.
Departing with an unresolved status can convert a fine into an entry ban, at which point returning requires a separate application rather than a payment.
Amnesty schemes are periodic, unannounced in advance, and have conditions that not everyone meets. Fines accrue at AED 50 per day while you wait.
Different visa types, different cancellation dates and different grace periods in the same household. Treating them as one case produces the wrong answer for at least one person.
Questions
Can overstay fines actually be reduced, or is that a myth?
They can, in defined circumstances — documented medical grounds, force majeure, a sponsor’s failure to cancel correctly, and administrative error among them. What cannot be done is arguing them down without evidence. The outcome tracks the quality of the file.
How much is the fine per day?
AED 50 per day per person is the standard rate, applied to tourist, visit and residence visas alike. Longer overstays may additionally require a paid exit permit.
I have been overstaying for over a year. Is it too late?
No. Long overstays are routine work. The fine is larger and the file needs to be stronger, but the process is the same. The only thing that makes it worse is another month.
Will paying the fine remove my ban?
Not automatically. Fines and bans are separate records. Clearing one does not clear the other, and this catches people out constantly.
Can you do this without me being in the UAE?
Partly. The record can be retrieved and the file prepared remotely. Some steps require presence or an authorised representative — we tell you which apply at the outset.
Do I have to leave the country?
Not always. Depending on the record, a status change from inside the UAE may be possible. Where departure is required, we arrange the exit permit so it happens lawfully rather than creating a ban.
What if my employer caused this?
Then that is evidence, and it belongs in the file. A sponsor’s failure to complete a cancellation properly is among the grounds on which reductions are considered.