The UAE’s Coordination Committee has adopted Ministerial Decision No 1/8/2017 requiring expatriates looking to work in the UAE provide a good character certificate as a precondition for obtaining work permits from 4 February 2018. The Committee added the certificate should be issued by the country of the expatriate or the country in which they have resided for the last five years. The certificate should be endorsed by the UAE mission aboard or the endorsement offices of the Foreign and International Cooperation Ministry.