Enjaz Abu Dhabi: What Injaz Centres Do and How to Use Them

Search for "Enjaz Abu Dhabi" and you land in the middle of three completely different things that happen to share a name: court service centres run under the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, a Saudi Arabian visa-processing platform, and a youth-education nonprofit. Most people typing the phrase want the first one — the place where you can file a case, notarise a document or attest a paper without driving to the main courthouse. This guide covers that network properly, and then untangles the other two, because turning up at a mall service counter with a Saudi visa question wastes everyone's morning.

Direct answer. In Abu Dhabi, Enjaz — also written Injaz — refers to the network of judicial service centres listed by the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) on its official website. The ADJD's Injaz Centres page lists seven centres across Abu Dhabi city, Musaffah, Al Ain and the surrounding areas, and groups their work into five service categories: case inquiry and receipt of non-criminal judgments, typing and filing cases, data entry for court services, attestation transactions, and notary public transactions. Working hours and available services differ from centre to centre, so check the ADJD page before you travel. The Saudi "Enjaz" visa platform is unrelated — it belongs to Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has nothing to do with Abu Dhabi's courts.

The three things called Enjaz — and which one you actually need

The name collision is real, and it sends people to the wrong counter every week. Sorting it out takes one minute.

• Injaz centres (Abu Dhabi Judicial Department). Service centres for court-related transactions in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi — filing cases, notary work, attestations, judgment collection. This is what almost everyone searching "enjaz abu dhabi" wants, and it is what the rest of this guide covers.
• Enjaz (Saudi Arabia visa processing). The name long attached to Saudi Arabia's visa-application system, operated under the Kingdom's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If you are in Abu Dhabi applying for a Saudi work or visit visa, this is your track — see the dedicated section below.
• INJAZ UAE (nonprofit). A youth education and entrepreneurship organisation. It has no connection to courts or visas.

There is a fourth complication worth naming without naming anyone: a number of private typing and businessmen-services companies in Abu Dhabi trade under an "Enjaz" or "Injaz" brand. Some are accredited to type and submit documents into government systems; others simply picked a popular word. The official network is the one listed on the ADJD website, and when this guide says Injaz centre, it means a centre on that official list.

What services Injaz centres actually handle

The ADJD groups Injaz centre services into five categories, and each one replaces a trip to a courthouse counter.

Case inquiry and receipt of non-criminal judgments. You can check the status of a case and collect copies of judgments in non-criminal matters — civil, commercial and family files rather than criminal ones. Criminal matters run through the courts and the Public Prosecution directly, on a different track with different rules.

Typing and filing cases. This is the service most people come for. Statements of claim and other court submissions in Abu Dhabi must be prepared in Arabic and entered into the court's electronic system in the required format. Injaz centre staff type the documents, structure them the way the system expects, and file them — which is why the centres matter so much to residents who do not read or write Arabic.

Data entry for court services. Beyond first filings, ongoing court procedures generate requests, submissions and updates that have to go into ADJD's systems correctly. The centres handle that data entry.

Attestation transactions. Certain documents need official attestation before other bodies will accept them. The centres process attestation requests that fall within ADJD's remit. If your document chain continues to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a foreign embassy, that is a separate stage with its own queue — attestation at an Injaz centre covers the judicial leg, not the whole journey.

Notary public transactions. Powers of attorney, acknowledgments, legal notices and similar notarial instruments can be executed through the notary services available at the centres. For expatriates this is often the single most useful service in the building: a power of attorney for a property purchase, a company matter or a family transaction gets notarised without a courthouse visit. If what you are notarising touches succession planning, note that wills for non-Muslims follow their own registration route — our guide to will registration in Abu Dhabi through ADJD walks through it.

Not every centre offers every category. The ADJD's table marks some services as unavailable at particular locations, which is exactly why the pre-trip check matters.

Where the centres are and when they open

The ADJD's official list names seven Injaz centres, most of them placed inside shopping malls precisely so that a court transaction can happen where people already are.

As published on the ADJD Injaz Centres page, the network includes centres at Marina Mall, Al Mushrif Mall and Musaffah in Abu Dhabi city, Al Jazirah Sports and Cultural Club, Bawabat Al Sharq Mall and Deerfields Mall in the wider emirate, and a centre serving Al Ain. The list itself can change — centres open, move and close — so treat the ADJD page as the live source rather than any third-party directory.

Hours are the trap. They are not uniform across the network, and they are not even uniform across services within one centre. ADJD's published timings show some mall-based centres operating long retail-style hours — for example 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, Saturday to Thursday — while other centres or service desks run 8:00 am to 3:00 pm or 8:00 am to 6:00 pm on a Sunday-to-Thursday week. A notary desk can close earlier than the typing desk in the same building. The practical rule:

• Check the specific centre AND the specific service on the ADJD page before you go.
• Do not assume mall opening hours equal service-desk hours.
• If your transaction needs a second party present — a power of attorney grantor, for instance — confirm the desk is open for the whole window you need.

ADJD also publishes a separate directory of accredited typing offices across the emirate on its typing offices page — dozens of licensed offices that prepare documents for submission even though they are not Injaz centres themselves.

Injaz centre, typing office, or courthouse — which do you need?

Three doors lead into the same court system, and picking the right one saves a wasted trip.

A typing office prepares documents. It types your claim, memorandum or application in the required Arabic format. Many are accredited by ADJD and listed on its site, but a typing office is a preparation service, not a court service point.

An Injaz centre goes further: it types, files, enters data into court systems, notarises and attests. For the routine transactions in its five categories, it substitutes for the courthouse counter entirely.

The courthouse remains the venue for what the centres do not cover — hearings, criminal matters, and procedures a judge must conduct in person. Filing through an Injaz centre does not change where your hearing happens; it changes where the paperwork starts.

One more distinction matters. None of these are legal advisers. Centre staff can make sure a document is typed and filed in the correct format; they cannot tell you whether the claim is a good idea, whether you are suing the right party, or what evidence will carry it. That gap is where cases go wrong before they begin. If the underlying matter is contested — a business dispute, an inheritance disagreement, a family conflict heading to the Abu Dhabi marriage court or beyond — the format of the filing is the least of your problems, and a licensed UAE lawyer should look at the substance first.

Fees and what to bring

Court and notary transactions in Abu Dhabi carry official fees, and typed-document services carry their own charges — but do not plan around a number you read on an unofficial site.

The exact fee for each transaction type is set by the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department and can change; confirm the current value with ADJD or a licensed UAE lawyer before you go. Court filing fees in particular scale with the nature and value of the claim, so no flat figure quoted online is trustworthy for your specific case.

What to bring is more predictable:

• Original Emirates ID (and passport where the transaction requires it).
• The original documents involved — contracts, judgments, certificates — plus copies.
• Certified Arabic translations of any foreign-language document, done by a legal translator licensed in the UAE.
• For powers of attorney and notarial acts: the personal attendance and ID of the person granting the instrument, and where relevant, details of the attorney-in-fact.
• Any case number or reference for transactions on an existing file.

Bring more than you think you need. The most common reason a transaction bounces is a missing original or an uncertified translation, and the queue does not hold your place while you fetch it.

The other Enjaz: Saudi visa processing from Abu Dhabi

A meaningful share of "enjaz abu dhabi" searches are not about courts at all — they are from residents arranging Saudi Arabian visas.

Enjaz is the name historically used for Saudi Arabia's visa-application system, and applications now run through the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs' visa platform at visa.mofa.gov.sa. Requirements, fee levels and processing arrangements for Saudi visas are set by the Saudi authorities and can change; confirm the current position on the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs platform or with the Saudi mission handling your application. What matters for this guide is the negative: no Abu Dhabi Injaz centre processes Saudi visas, and no ADJD service desk can answer a Saudi visa question. If your document chain for a Saudi application requires UAE-side attestation first, that UAE leg may pass through UAE authorities — but the visa itself is a Saudi process end to end.

While sorting visa paperwork, UAE-side status questions have their own answers — residents comparing routes can start with our guide to UAE golden visa eligibility.

When a service centre is not enough

Injaz centres are built for transactions. The moment your matter stops being a transaction and becomes a dispute, the centre has done all it can.

Use an Injaz centre when the task is mechanical: file this claim, notarise this power of attorney, collect this judgment, attest this document. Use a lawyer when any of these are true:

• The other side disputes the facts or has its own lawyer.
• Money, property or custody outcomes turn on how the claim is framed.
• You are not sure whether to file at all, or in which court.
• A document you are about to sign — a power of attorney above all — grants someone real control over your assets or affairs.
• A judgment you collected needs enforcing, and the debtor is not cooperating.

A power of attorney deserves special caution. The notary confirms your identity and your intent; the notary does not audit whether the powers you are granting are wider than the task needs. People routinely sign general powers of attorney for what should be a narrow, single-purpose instrument, and unwinding a misused one is far harder than drafting it correctly. Business owners handling company documents through the centres — licence matters, board resolutions, attestations — face the same asymmetry; our guide to trade licence renewal in the UAE covers the adjacent paperwork cycle.

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