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The results pipeline is built around the centre reporting directly to ICA, which is why you never see a paper report to carry between offices — a DHA or MOHAP centre uploads the outcome itself, and your file simply updates once it has been processed. That also means there is nothing for you to double-check or correct if a result looks wrong to you; any dispute has to go through the testing centre, not through ICA, since ICA is only relaying what it has been sent.
The AED 320 versus AED 750 choice only makes sense once you know what else your file is waiting on. If the medical is the last outstanding item, paying for express genuinely compresses the timeline. If a document elsewhere in your application is still incomplete, the medical result will simply sit alongside it, unused until the rest of the file catches up — so the faster test buys nothing until everything around it is ready too.
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