Newly incorporated in IFZA last week. License in hand, establishment card not yet applied for, MOHRE enrolment not done, no employee visa quota active. Have two hires already on offer letters and a soft client start date three weeks out. Both hires need to be on UAE residency and operational by then, which means the employment visa work has to start immediately alongside the post-incorporation setup, not after it.
Current state: the formation agent delivered the license and then stopped engaging on the post-license side because their package did not include it. So we are effectively at day zero on the employment stack, with a three-week runway.
What we need is a PRO firm that takes the full post-incorporation employment setup as one engagement, not six tickets. Specifically: establishment card application, MOHRE enrolment, WPS account setup with a bank (and confirmation with the bank that this will not add friction to our pending corporate account), visa quota approval sized to the current office (we are on flexi-desk and want to confirm the actual visa allocation that translates to), entry permits for the two hires, medicals, Emirates IDs, residency stamping, and labour contracts registered. Handled as one workstream with one point of contact.
Two of the hires are inside UAE on visit visas, one is outside UAE. That changes the entry permit flow for the third hire and needs to be sequenced so they can travel and arrive without wasting the visit window.
Honesty about timeline is the single most important thing. If three weeks is realistic for you for a post-incorporation stack of this scope, say so and commit. If it is realistic only for one hire and the second will run four to five weeks, tell me now so I can adjust the client conversation and the hires' joining dates. I would much rather replan the business side on honest data than discover on day eighteen that we are not going to make it.
Ongoing: after the initial setup we want the same firm on monthly retainer for visa renewals, employee changes, EoS settlements, new hires. Looking for a relationship, not a one-off.
