How do I make a power of attorney for Lebanon from the UAE or the Gulf?

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Lebanese nationals: sign at the consulate in Dubai#

The Consulate General of Lebanon in Dubai issues powers of attorney for Lebanese nationals and for Palestinians who hold Lebanese travel documents^[1]. You sign in person at the mission^[6,7,9,10]. Its undated page, which we read in October 2026, prices a special POA below a general one: AED 184 special, AED 368 general. The consulate also lists the irrevocable POA and the property-management or real-estate POA among the types it handles, with no separate fee for the irrevocable type.

The consulate's page lists its fees in AED. Under Art. 77 of Law 10/2022, however, consular fees are set and collected in USD or EUR^[11]. Ask the consulate how it wants to be paid before you go. We found no published processing time for Dubai.

If you are 70 or older, Dubai asks for a medical certificate^[1,6,7]. Ask the consulate what the certificate must say and how recent it must be.

The same consulate also cancels POAs. You bring a copy of the POA to be revoked, and the fee is AED 276 per signature^[1]. The consulate's page does not say how the agent, the notary or the Land Registry learn of the revocation, and we found no public register of revocations^[12,13]. Tell the agent and the notary in writing, and ask a notary or lawyer in Lebanon how to make the revocation known to the Land Registry office for the property. More in how to cancel a power of attorney.

Other nationals: UAE notary, then two attestations#

If you are not Lebanese, the Dubai consulate does not issue the POA itself. You sign before a UAE notary. The UAE foreign ministry then attests the document, and the Lebanese consulate attests it after that^[1].

An apostille does not replace these steps, because Lebanon is not a member of the Apostille Convention^[2]. Our sources do not say whether the UAE issues apostilles, and for a document going to Lebanon the answer would not change the route.

The only witness rules we found come from the Lebanese consulates in New York and Detroit, which require two witnesses who are not relatives^[8,9] for a property POA signed before a local notary. Ask the UAE notary and the consulate whether witnesses are needed in the UAE.

Dubai states its medical-certificate age only for POAs signed at the consulate. At least one mission, the Washington embassy, applies the same rule to POAs signed before a local notary^[6]. If you are 70 or older, ask the Dubai consulate whether it wants a certificate with a UAE-notary POA too.

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman#

We found no published POA rules from a Lebanese mission in any of these countries. In general, a POA for Lebanon follows one of two routes. You sign at a Lebanese embassy or consulate. Or you sign before a local notary, have it authenticated by the local authorities, and then have it legalised by the Lebanese mission^[6,7,9,10]. The details differ by mission, as the different medical-certificate ages show^[1,6,7], so do not assume Dubai's rules apply where you live.

One Lebanese embassy can cover a neighbouring country. Danish documents, for example, are legalised by the Lebanese embassy in Stockholm^[14]. Ask the Lebanese embassy or consulate that covers your country these questions:

• Do you issue property POAs for my nationality, and do I need an appointment?
• Which identity papers and property documents must I bring?
• What do a special and a general POA cost, and how do I pay?
• From what age do you need a medical certificate?
• If I sign before a local notary, which local ministry must authenticate it first?
• How long does it take?

What the POA should say, and how long it works#

Missions ask for the property number and location, plus a copy of the deed or a Land Registry extract^[6,7,8]. The POA must also give each party's full names, parents' names, date of birth and registry number^[8,10]. For a sale, Kallas Law Firm says a general POA is not enough and an express special mandate to sell is required^[12]. For a purchase, ask the notary in Lebanon which type and wording they will accept. See general and special powers of attorney.

Kallas Law Firm says a POA is irrevocable when it is made in the interest of the agent or a third party, and you can then withdraw it only with that person's consent^[12]. Read what an irrevocable power of attorney means before you sign one.

A claim seen online that a Dubai POA is "valid for 5 years" is not on the consulate's page^[1]. Kallas Law Firm says a POA does not lapse with time unless a term is written into it^[12]. It also says an agent registering at the Land Registry must produce an ordinary POA no more than five years old^[12,13], and that a truly irrevocable POA is not subject to that limit.

Kallas Law Firm also says documents executed abroad, such as a POA, generally pass through the Lebanese mission and then Lebanon's Ministry of Foreign Affairs before they are used in Lebanon. The Dubai consulate's page ends at consular attestation, and no official page settles the point^[15,16]. Ask the notary or Land Registry office that will use the POA. See the foreign ministry step in Beirut.