A vehicle power of attorney is a legal instrument that allows you to give someone else the authority to handle your car’s affairs on your behalf. In the United Arab Emirates, a vehicle POA can be used for the purchase, sale, import, and export of automobiles, as well as for vehicle registration, renewal, and number plate acquisition. When an expat leaves the UAE, they usually employ a car POA, asking their friends to handle the sale on their behalf.
In a vehicle power of attorney, anyone can serve as an agent. Moreover, you can designate Al-Ahram Investment in a vehicle power of attorney as your reliable representative.
Documents Required for UAE Residents:
- The principal’s passport, visa page, and Emirates ID.
- The attorney’s passport, visa page, and Emirates ID.
- Any further paperwork or data that, based on the kind of POA, may be needed.
Documents Required for Non-UAE Residents:
- The principal’s passport.
- The attorney’s passport, visa page, and Emirates ID.
any further paperwork or information that would be needed, based on the kind of POA.
Powers Included in a Vehicle POA
In the United Arab Emirates, a vehicle power of attorney may contain the following authority:
- Buy and sell an automobile.
- Get money from the sale of a car.
- Register your car.
- Renew a car’s registration.
- Bring a car into the UAE.
- Export a car outside of the UAE.
- Hire a car on a person’s or business’s behalf.
- Purchase and renew auto insurance.
- Pay fines for moving infractions.
- Sign papers to transfer ownership of a car.
- Participate in government offices such as the licensing and traffic divisions.
Benefits of a Vehicle POA
The benefits of a vehicle power of attorney in the United Arab Emirates are as follows:
- In the event that the car’s owner is unavailable, the duties pertaining to the vehicle are managed by a power of attorney for vehicles.
- The car’s owner is free to designate a reliable representative to look after his car.
- In the UAE, a vehicle power of attorney can cover any kind of vehicle, including a car, truck, motorcycle, bus, etc.
- By using a vehicle power of attorney, owners can designate the authorities they want to assign.
- A POA for a car reduces owners’ stress. The designated individual will always be accessible to carry out the tasks in accordance with your preferences.
- A single vehicle POA can be used to grant all of a vehicle’s authority.
- A vehicle POA may be granted for an indefinite or limited period of time.
- Vehicle POAs are accepted by all UAE government agencies, banks, and service providers. You can complete all of your transactions with ease by using a single document.
- The POA for the car may be withdrawn at any moment.
Signing Process
The location of the signing and notarization determines the process for both. One may sign the car POA from within or outside of the United Arab Emirates.
Option 1: Signed and utilized POA vehicle in the UAE
Any Emirate’s notary public is able to witness the signing of a vehicle POA. To notarize a vehicle POA, all notaries must adhere to the same procedures. Anywhere in the United Arab Emirates, a car POA notarized by a notary public is recognized and acknowledged.
- The Dubai Notary Public offers online notarization.
By using Dubai Notary Public’s online notarization service, you have the option to notarize the car POA online. The vehicle POA can be notarized through the BOTIM app by using this service. The steps are as follows:
- The Dubai notary public must receive an email with the final copy of the vehicle POA as well as the principal’s and agent’s identity cards. The principal’s cellphone number—which is connected to the BOTIM app—should be mentioned in the email’s body.
- Through a video conversation via the BOTIM app, the notary public in Dubai will confirm the names of the principal and the agent. The POA will be approved by the Dubai notary public after verification.
- The notarized vehicle POA will be issued by the public notary in Dubai. The vehicle POA is available for pickup at the appropriate Notary Public office location.
- Notarization Online (Abu Dhabi)
The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department also provides online notarization services in Abu Dhabi (ADJD). The following is how ADJD digitally notarizes a vehicle POA:
- The ADJD portal will receive the vehicle POA upload. Both Arabic and English must be used in the uploaded POA. You must upload the principal’s, lawyers, and legal translator’s identification cards to ADJD in addition to the POA.
- The payment link provided on the ADJD website can be used to pay the notarization costs. After ADJD approves the POA, the payments are made.
- ADJD will use a video call to confirm the principal’s and agent’s identification following the payment of the required government fees.
- You’ll receive an email with a digitally signed copy of the car POA. In the UAE, this digital copy is accepted as an authentic proof of authenticity.
Option 2: Automobile POA signed outside of the UAE but utilized there
You have the option to sign the car’s POA in your home country. For the vehicle POA to be legally accepted in the UAE, it must be attested by each of the departments listed in the following table:
- Place of residence
- Foreign Affairs Ministry
- UAE Consulate
- UAE
- Foreign Affairs Ministry
- Ministry of Justice following translation into Arabic
Car POA signed in the UAE but used outside of the country
In the United Arab Emirates, a vehicle power of attorney may be executed in front of any notary. For the vehicle POA to be deemed legal, it must be notarized by both the company’s embassy or consulate in the United Arab Emirates and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
