Hey guys, I was in a similar situation and an ex uae resident, so listen carefully because this will save you a shite load of time.
For starters forget collecting your fingerprint etc and sending it by post to the uae police centre and all the other stuff that is listed in their web portal because that will be a huge waste of time and energy.
Me and my wife got our uae pcc recently and it took the grand total of two days for this to happen.
The thing is, if you have your Emirates Id number, and Iam not talking of your physical Emirates Id, just the number then you will save yourself all that grief and it’s as simple as inputting the number in and proceeding with the payment.
But in case you have been careless and have not taken a scan or photo of your Emirates id during your stay there, then despair not, because you can still get your Emirates Id no, because every person is assigned an unique emirates id no which correlates to their passport.
So all you need to do is, look at your empires uae visa on your passport and look up the visa no. That is listed there and using this and by contacting a uae typing centre in Dubai you can easily retrieve your Emirates Id number and this is exactly what I did and that too for zero cost thanks to the very nice typing centre executive who was being sympathetic to me ( my wife actually who didn’t make a record/ copy of her Emirates Id no ) and provided me with the Emirates id number using the expired uae visa.
So that’s it folks, don’t waste your time and money getting your finger prints and what not, instead look up your expired uae visa right in your passport and using the visa number retrieve your Emirates id number and proceed to getting your pcc with way less work and energy.
Any uae based typing centre can perform this simple task,