Most people searching for notary timings in Dubai are trying to solve a scheduling problem: they have a document, a deadline, and a working week that does not leave much room. This sets out the options honestly, including the one that removes the scheduling problem entirely.
Public notary or private notary
There are two routes to a notarised document in Dubai and the legal effect is identical.
A public notary operates from Dubai Courts service counters and centres around the emirate. A private notary is a lawyer licensed by Dubai Courts under Law No. 26 of 2021 to perform the same acts from their own practice. Both register the act in the same Dubai Courts system, and both produce a document with the same verification barcode.
What differs is service. A private notary prepares the drafting and the Arabic translation, will attend at your location, and can take appointments outside standard counter hours. A public counter does none of those things, and it works on its own schedule rather than yours.
If you are searching for timings because a counter’s hours do not fit your week, the useful answer is not a longer list of counters. It is that a private notary is the route designed for exactly that problem.
Our hours
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Every day | 24/7, by appointment |
In person, online and home visit appointments are available 24/7. Call or WhatsApp to book.
Where we are
Business Hub, Marasi Drive, Business Bay, Dubai.
Our in-house notary public sees clients at the office by appointment. If you cannot come in, book an online appointment or a home visit instead.
+971 50 747 9570 reaches the office at any time, and the same number takes WhatsApp messages, which is the fastest way to send a photograph of a document and get a straight answer about what it needs.
“Notary near me” is usually the wrong question
Proximity matters less than it used to, for two reasons.
A notary can come to you. Attendance outside the office is a prescribed government fee of AED 1,000 under Dubai Courts Decision No. 312 of 2025. It is a single fee for the attendance rather than a charge per signature, which makes it more reasonable than it first appears when three directors have to sign a resolution.
You may not need to be in the same place at all. Dubai’s official E-Notary service performs the act by secure video call with identity verified through UAE PASS. It is a genuine notarial act registered in the same system. It does not suit every document, but where it does, distance stops being a factor entirely.
Between those two, the practical question is not which notary is nearest. It is which route suits your document.
What to bring, so one visit is enough
Most wasted trips have the same causes, and all of them are avoidable.
- Your original Emirates ID and original passport. Copies will not do for identity verification
- The original document, if you want a certified true copy. A copy cannot be certified from a copy, a scan or a photograph. This is the most common wasted trip of all
- A passport copy of anyone receiving authority under a power of attorney
- The title deed or contract reference, for property matters
- The trade licence, memorandum of association, and evidence the signatory can bind the company, for corporate matters
- Any written requirement from the authority that asked you for the document
A two minute phone call before you travel covers all of that. It is not billable and it is the single highest value thing you can do before an appointment.
How long it takes
The appointment itself is usually short. What takes time is the preparation: the drafting and the bilingual text have to be right before anything is signed.
Issue of the document afterwards depends on the Dubai Courts system, on UAE PASS where remote notarisation is used, and on other signatories. We do not publish a guaranteed turnaround, and it is worth being cautious of anyone who does, because those three things are not within any notary’s control.
What you should get is an honest expectation for your specific matter, and a message if it changes.
Weekends and urgent matters
Appointments are available 24/7, including Saturday and Sunday. If something is genuinely urgent, say so when you call and say what the deadline actually is. Sometimes the answer is that it can be done, sometimes it is that a different route is faster, and occasionally it is that the deadline is not achievable, which is more useful to hear early than late.
Before you set off
- Call or message first, and describe the document
- Confirm what to bring for your specific matter
- Confirm the government fee and the professional fee, separately, in writing
- Ask whether the remote route works for your document, if travelling is inconvenient
- Bring originals, not copies
Where to go next
If you want the detail rather than the logistics, there is a page for everything we notarise, the full fee schedule with the instrument behind each figure, and the questions people ask most often. Or just call the office and describe the document.
