Company Formation — PRO Services & Government Liaison
Every UAE company generates a steady stream of government-facing tasks — visa processing, labour card renewals, Ejari registration, Tasheel and Tawjeeh transactions, and dozens of other filings across immigration, labour and municipality portals. Handled reactively, these become a constant source of small delays and missed deadlines that quietly slow the business down. FMCA's PRO team runs this as a managed function, not a series of one-off errands.
Reviewed by FMCA's Senior Company Formation Advisory Team — structuring entities across the UAE and Saudi Arabia since 2004.
Four areas of work, covering the government-facing transactions every UAE company generates.
Employment visa applications, renewals and cancellations processed correctly and on schedule, for one employee or a whole team.
Tasheel, Tawjeeh, Ejari and other government system transactions handled by a team that works in these portals daily.
Degree, marriage and other personal or corporate document attestation coordinated across the relevant ministries and embassies.
Every visa, labour card and government filing deadline tracked centrally, not managed department by department.
These are routine, recurring processes — the risk isn't complexity, it's letting them pile up unmanaged.
Fines accrue daily for a visa or labour card left to lapse, and repeated violations affect the company's own compliance standing.
Deadlines managed in scattered spreadsheets or by memory are the most common cause of an entirely avoidable miss.
Government portal submissions filed incorrectly can trigger rejections that cost real time to fix, especially under time pressure.
This connects directly to your company formation and payroll and WPS compliance, since visa and labour status feed directly into both.
Both get the transactions done, but the cost structure and continuity look very different in practice.
Our Approach
Most government liaison problems come from treating each visa or filing as a separate, one-off errand. FMCA runs it as a managed function — one team, one tracked calendar, and daily familiarity with the portals — so nothing gets handled reactively.
How We Work
Illustrative scenarios based on the kind of work we do — not descriptions of specific named clients.
Years of ad hoc, department-by-department visa handling were replaced with a single tracked calendar covering the entire team's renewal dates.
An Ejari and municipality filing backlog left behind by a previous PRO provider was identified and resolved before it triggered penalties.
A new senior hire's degree and personal document attestation was coordinated across the relevant home-country and UAE authorities ahead of their visa application.
Explore Further
Dedicated pages covering the full scope of related work — explore each in depth.
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FAQ
A Public Relations Officer handles a company's government-facing transactions — visas, labour cards, license-related filings and portal submissions.
Not usually — a fixed outsourced fee is often lower than a full-time salary once training, backup coverage and portal access costs are counted.
Yes, most routine visa transactions can be expedited, though actual processing times depend on the relevant government authority, not the PRO team.
Yes — visa quotas, portals and specific processes differ by free zone and mainland, so the team needs familiarity with the relevant jurisdiction.
Fines accrue and, in some cases, the employee's status is affected — lapses should be caught by tracking before they happen, not fixed after.
Tell us where things stand and a senior consultant will get back to you directly — not a call centre.
