DubaiTypingCenters.com is an independent directory and guide. It lists the service centers people in Dubai use for visas, labour files and tenancy registration, and explains what each job costs and how it works. It is not a government website. It is not GDRFA, ICP, MOHRE or the Dubai Land Department, and it is not affiliated with any typing, Amer or Tasheel center.
Why it exists
Searching for "typing center near me" in Dubai gives you a mix of shop listings, outdated blog posts and pages that look official but are not. The rules also changed: from GDRFA stopped visa work at 261 typing centers and moved it to Amer centers. Many people still go to the wrong counter. This site sorts that out, center type by center type.
Where the center data comes from
The center lists are built from three official sources, checked in :
| Source | What it lists | Count in Dubai |
|---|---|---|
| GDRFA Dubai customer happiness centers list | Amer centers | 85 |
| GDRFA Dubai customer happiness centers list | GDRFA's own customer happiness centers | 9 |
| MOHRE approved services centers | Business services and guidance centers (Tasheel and Tawjeeh) | 90 |
| MOHRE approved services centers | Domestic workers centers (Tadbeer) | 42 |
| Dubai Land Department | Real estate services trustee centers for Ejari | 7 |
That is 233 centers from the official lists. The directory also carries 3 private typing centers taken from a secondary source, marked as such, because no official list of private typing shops exists. GDRFA also lists 7 partner service points inside companies and authorities that are not open to the public; we leave those out.
We copy names and addresses as the authorities publish them, typos included, because that is what you will see on the sign and on the receipt. Where an official list leaves the address blank, we say so rather than guess.
What we do not publish
- Opening hours we cannot confirm. GDRFA publishes hours for its own centers. MOHRE publishes none. Only two Dubai centers are confirmed open 24 hours. Everywhere else we leave hours out.
- Center phone numbers and emails. Use the Open in Google Maps link on each listing, or the authority's own list.
- Reviews, ratings or rankings. We do not rank centers or call any of them the best.
How fees are sourced and dated
There are two kinds of numbers on this site, and we keep them apart.
Government fees come from the authority's own service page: GDRFA, ICP, MOHRE, the Dubai Land Department, MOFA, and Dubai Administrative Resolution No. 66 for medical tests. Each table names its source and the month it was checked.
Market prices are what people usually pay a typing center, PRO firm or free zone on top of the government fee. These come from published price lists and are always shown as a range with the date we checked them, never as one figure.
Where official sources disagree, as they do on visa grace periods, we show both and tell you which page to check. Where a figure appeared only in a news article or a search snippet and we could not read it on the authority's page, we leave the number out.
Fees change without much notice. Check the figure on the authority's page before you pay, and if you find one of ours out of date, tell us through the contact form.
Requests for help
Some pages let you ask for help with a visa or a licence. Those requests go to a licensed partner team in Dubai, which types and submits the files. Before any work starts, the team gives you one total price, with the government fees and its service charge listed separately. You pay nothing to use the directory or the guides.
The partner team does not run the centers listed here, and listing a center does not mean it works with us.
What we never do
- Claim to be a government office, an Amer center or a Tasheel center.
- Promise that a visa or permit will be approved. The authorities decide.
- Ask for your passport number or document copies through a web form.
Where to start
- Find a counter: Amer centers near you, Tasheel centers and centers open 24 hours
- Not sure which counter you need: Amer vs Tasheel vs typing center
- Visa questions: UAE residence visas and visa status check
DubaiTypingCenters.com is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
