Product Description

This is a complete step-by-step guide for getting things done in Dubai. "The Red-Tape Explorer" leads readers through procedures on all aspects of life, whether business or personal. The key features include: clear and easy-to-follow instructions for obtaining visas and permits, telecommunications, housing, transportation, licenses, banking, insurance, education and health; over 100 procedures, plus tips and advice; detailed information on all ministries and government departments; all locations clearly referenced to maps. It also includes: prerequisites, 'what to bring' and related laws; useful phone numbers and addresses; and a Dubai street map. It is split into sections such as: Visas, Housing, Communication, Driving, Personal Matters and Business.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #422428 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

Customer Reviews

Vital in a world of miscommunication
I moved to Dubai at the start of this year (2007) and my wife purchased the Red Tape guide on a friend's recommendation. What a massive help it has proved.

Dubai is in a catagory by itself when it comes to officialdom. Everyone here carries about 20 passport photos, coppies of their visas and stamped company letters of "no objection" with them just to buy milk. Okay, so it's not as bad as that, but when you get here there are things you'll need to sort out very quickly, like driving licences, electricity supplies, bank accounts and cable TV. All of these will require you to wander through a sometimes bewildering maze of locations, forms and translations and one missing document means you may have wasted an entire day.

The Red Tape guide is updated annually (although, to be fair, proceedures change here so often it sometimes takes a "Belt and Braces" approach) and for every process provides step by step instructions of where to go and what to do. It has a "shopping list" for each section too, letting you know where a photocopy will suffice or where original documents are required, for example.

All this is written in an open and accessable fashion and, when coupled with the other Explorer book (Dubai Explorer, Resident's Guide, and no, I don't work for them!) will ease you into life in Dubai so you can focus on sundowner cocktails at Barasti or 360!

A must for new arrivals.

Very Very Helpful!
...really helps you out when you are new to a place...it tells you how to get telephone connection, buy a car, transfer/get a driving license, housing etc.,...in short tells you how to set yourself up when you to move to Dubai and even includes a business setting up section.

..a perfect guide if you are moving to Dubai....dont leave without it.....