UAE rolling out AI 'Eye' to speed up work permits - a quick look
As-salamu alaykum - quick share for anyone following visa news. The UAE has announced a new AI-driven system, nicknamed the “Eye”, to make work permit applications much faster. The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation will lead it, and the idea is that an AI agent will check required documents - passport photos, IDs, academic certificates, that sort of thing - to confirm they’re real and correct.
Officials say the tool will cut down mistakes and limit human handling to only exceptional cases, speeding up approvals and lowering operating costs. Rashid Al Saadi, the acting assistant undersecretary for Labour Market Services, called it a big step forward in modernising the ministry’s services and pushing AI across labour market work.
The plan was shown at Gitex Global and fits the wider government push to reduce red tape. You might remember a move last year that cut residency and work-permit processing from as long as 30 days down to about five. Sheikh Mohammed’s Zero Government Bureaucracy drive - aiming to remove 2,000 unnecessary procedures - is part of the same effort, and officials say service times have already dropped a lot in phase one.
Bottom line: this should help firms hire faster and make life easier for applicants, insha'Allah. May Allah make things easy for those applying and grant benefit to the community.
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