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RTA’s exchange list is the source, not a Facebook group. Many EU photocard licences swap; plenty of others (including some African and Asian licences) go through a school.
- Licence
- RTA publishes who can swap — UK, many EU, some others
- South Africa / others
- Often a driving school, not a swap
- Health
- Employer network, not your home public system
- RTA’s exchange list is the source, not a Facebook group.
- Many EU photocard licences swap; plenty of others (including some African and Asian licences) go through a school.
- You must be a resident.
- Eye test, original licence, fees in the hundreds of dirhams if it is a swap — thousands and weeks if it is a school.
- Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Netherlands: no UAE salary tax does not close your file at home.
- Days in the old country, a rented-out flat, a spouse who stayed — that is a tax-residency conversation.
- Public healthcare does not travel; the employer card and its network do.
- Family math is school fees plus rent.
- A ‘comfortable’ European salary that skipped private school will not skip KHDA.
- Try the commute in peak before you sign a villa in the desert because the brochure looked like Perth.
Practical notes, not official law. Confirm on ICP, MOHRE, RTA, KHDA and your employer before you act.
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