Work in the UAE as a healthcare professional

Sheryan is the Dubai Health Authority's own licensing system, and it is where a DHA application lives from start to finish: your profile, your documents, your assessment result and eventually your registration. You hold the account yourself.

In broad terms: an initial assessment of whether your profile fits a category, primary source verification of your documents, the DHA assessment where your category requires one, then registration and an eligibility letter, and finally activation by the facility that hires you.

Not necessarily. Whether an assessment is required depends on your category, your qualification and in some cases where you have already practised. Some applicants are exempted. This is decided by the authority against your file, which is why the category question matters so much.

No. You can complete verification and the assessment and hold an eligibility letter without an employer. What needs the employer is the final activation, where the hiring facility puts the licence live against your role.

Yes. The Health Authority Abu Dhabi was renamed the Department of Health, Abu Dhabi. You will still see the old HAAD name used in job advertisements and in older study material, but it is the same regulator and the same licence.

The Abu Dhabi assessment is delivered through a commercial test centre network, so it can be taken at a centre in India rather than requiring travel. Your booking reference comes from the authority once your file is accepted.

The Ministry of Health and Prevention licenses across the Northern Emirates. Dubai and Abu Dhabi have their own regulators, so an MOH licence does not let you work in either of them.

They are different rather than easier, and candidates who assume otherwise tend to under-prepare. The syllabus for your profession is broadly comparable across the UAE authorities. Choose based on where you can realistically be hired, not on a rumour about which paper is softer.

Your qualification with the institution that awarded it, your registration with your council, and each period of employment with the employer who provided the letter. It contacts them directly. Your own copies of the documents are the starting point, not the proof.

Because the time is spent waiting on other people. Your file is only as fast as the slowest college registrar or HR office that has to reply to it, and those offices have no deadline. Neat paperwork removes the avoidable delays, and after that it is follow-up.

In some cases a report can be shared with another authority rather than re-run from scratch, usually for a further charge. Whether it is possible depends on which authorities are involved and what has changed since. We check before you pay for a second full verification.

The report comes back with that item unverified rather than the whole file being refused. What happens next depends on whether the item is essential to your category. Often it means supplying an alternative document or having the source re-contacted, which is the response we handle for you.

A typical file is: your degree or diploma certificate, mark lists or transcripts for every year, your internship or course completion certificate, your council registration certificate, an experience certificate from each employer, your passport, and recent photographs. Some authorities also ask for a certificate of good standing. Send us what you have and we will tell you what is missing before anything is submitted.

It is the single most common field-level problem we see. Passports often carry an expanded middle name or a surname that the college recorded as an initial, and verification treats the two as different people. It is fixable, usually with an affidavit or a name-equivalence document, but it has to be dealt with before submission rather than after a report comes back queried.

Apply in the name on your passport, and supply the marriage certificate or name-change deed that links it to the name on your certificates. Your college and your first employer will still hold you under your earlier name, which is exactly what verification will find, so the linking document is what keeps the file clean.