Turn ICP Smart Services into an API

What you can build on the Smart Services platform

• Get sponsored individuals

  Build this

  Reads Sponsored Management for your establishment: each person under your sponsorship, their entry permit or residence and when it expires.

  Takes

  Status (optional: active, expiring soon, expired)

  Returns

  Name, nationality, passport number, file type, status, expiry date

• Check establishment request statuses

  Build this

  Searches Establishment Requests for the requests your establishment submitted and reads each one's service, applicant and status.

  Takes

  Submitted from, submitted to, application number (optional)

  Returns

  Application number, service, applicant name, submitted date, status

• Get payment transactions

  Build this

  Reads the Payments screen: the payment transactions made from your establishment account and the breakdown of fees for each.

  Takes

  Paid from, paid to

  Returns

  Application number, service, payment date, fees breakdown, total in AED

• Start an Emirates ID renewal for a resident

  Build this

  In Sponsored Management, picks the resident, starts Renew Emirates ID for Residents and fills the form, stopping before payment so someone can review it.

  Takes

  Passport number or name, the details the renewal form asks for

  Returns

  Application number, applicant name, fees listed, request status

Automate the Smart Services platform with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Residencies and visas expiring soon, every Monday

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00, Asia/Dubai

  Step 1

  Get the sponsored individuals whose residence or entry permit is expiring soon.

  Step 2

  Keep the people who were not on last week's list.

  Step 3

  Email you each name with file type, passport number and expiry date.

• Establishment request status changes, posted to HR

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 9:00 and 15:00, Asia/Dubai

  Step 1

  Check Establishment Requests submitted in the last 30 days.

  Step 2

  Keep the requests whose status changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Post application number, applicant, service and new status to your HR system's webhook.

• Weekly ICP fees, handed to accounting

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Friday at 17:00, Asia/Dubai

  Step 1

  Get the payment transactions made since last Friday.

  Step 2

  Stop when there are none.

  Step 3

  Post application number, service, payment date, fees breakdown and total to your accounting webhook.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get sponsored individuals” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "smartservices.icp.gov.ae/get_sponsored_individuals",
    "input": {
      "status": "expiring soon"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "establishment": "Northwind Trading LLC",
    "sponsored": [
      {
        "name": "Karim Saleh",
        "nationality": "Jordan",
        "passport_number": "P4471902",
        "file_type": "Residence",
        "status": "Expiring soon",
        "expiry_date": "2026-12-03"
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

The Smart Services platform’s own options

ICP publishes no API for establishments' visa, residency or Emirates ID transactions: they are made on the Smart Services website, in the UAEICP app or at a Customer Happiness Centre. Its Validation Gateway checks and reads Emirates ID cards, and is open only to partners with a cooperation contract, after ICA's approval.

Read on November 12, 2026: ICP Validation Gateway, User Guide: Establishments Services (ICP, January 2022), Renewal of Establishment Card.

Signing in to the Smart Services platform

ICP's service pages say the Smart Services website needs sign-in with UAE PASS. Its Establishments Services guide describes an establishment account signed in with an email address and password. With Fous you sign in once through the platform's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, never returned by the API or written to logs, and code and AI agents never see it.

Worth knowing

The establishment card comes first

Visa and residency requests go through an establishment account. Its card needs a valid trade licence and one authorized signatory's Emirates ID, and free zone companies apply through their own free zone authority.

Late renewal costs AED 100 a month

An establishment card renewed more than 30 days after it expires is fined AED 100 for each month of delay, up to AED 1,000. Fines due on the establishment must be paid before renewal.

Several users can work one account

User Management adds another user to the establishment account. In Drafts and Requests Ready for Payment, Checked out locks a request so no other user completes it, and Checked in releases it.

Actions depend on the request

Establishment Requests offers actions such as Print Application, Print Receipt, Download Attachments and Related Requests. Which ones appear depends on the request's type and status.

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