Transfer your vehicle online within the UAE

The Licensing Agency at the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, has launched a new service enabling customers to process their transactions related to the transfer of vehicles within the UAE online as part of the second stage of the Online Traffic Link with the Federal Traffic System.

Ahmed Hashim Bahrozyan, CEO of RTA Licensing Agency, said: “The new service enables customers to forgo the issuance of transfer plates and suffice by the issuance of a Transfer Certificate (without temporary plates as was the case before) since this service has become available to all Traffic Departments of the UAE, thanks to the online link with the federal traffic system. Accordingly, such vehicle plates will be abolished from the category of private plates in the Emirate to which the vehicle is transferred. This improved procedure will simplify the service, slash the costs of issuing transfer plates, enable the tracking of the transaction in the traffic system, and eliminate offences reported against transfer plates; which proved difficult to collect.

“The old system applied for the processing of transactions related to vehicles transfer within the UAE required customers to obtain transfer plates from the RTA to be valid for three days only to process the transaction with the entity to which the transfer is intended to be made. Moreover, such numbers are no longer related to the Traffic File; which constituted a huge difficulty thwarting our efforts as to how to levy offences, be it related to Dubai Police, Salik, parking or others. Therefore, this new service is better in terms of the express processing and transparency in obtaining all information," he added.