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  • Free Zone Entity
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Licenses & Premises
  • Type of Licenses
  • Type of Premises
Timeline
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Business In UAE

Cities with skyscrapers, sophisticated network of highways, slick cars, magnificent shopping malls, extravagant lifestyle with a combination of entertainment facilities along with high class golf clubs, an amazing night life existing alongside the exquisite culture & tradition of Arabia. The U.A.E is modern metropolis, an entirely crime free country and is a melting pot of many different nationalities living in peace and harmony with excellent standard of living.

The U.A.E is a constellation of 7 stars or the seven Emirates as below:

  • Abu Dhabi
  • Dubai
  • Sharjah
  • Ajman
  • Ras Al Khaimah
  • Fujairah
  • Umm Al Quawain

The proactive outlook of the Rulers of the U.A.E has resulted in a successful economy and country with flourishing businesses and people. To encourage inward investments into the U.A.E, the government has continually worked towards indicting a sense of security for foreign investors. To make foreigners feel at home and encourage investments, most of the cities in the U.A.E have Free Zones operating in their respective Emirates facilitating a host of benefits as mentioned below:

  • 100% tax free operations
  • 100% foreign ownership of the company
  • Government guarantee against taxes
  • Infrastructural advantages
  • No Personal Income Tax
  • No Corporate Tax
  • One window operations
  • No restrictions on funds repatriation
  • No currency restrictions

A host of other benefits are offered by the free zone depending on the type of business, whether it's a manufacturing set up, a trading operation or a professional service providing organization.

Country Travel Mart will guide you through the advantages and assist in selecting a suitable free zone to suit your business requirements.

Free Zone Company Setup
TRADING COMPANY
  • Submission of application and approvals for commercial trading licenses from the Free Zone Authorities
  • Locating the right premises for the clients for a trading office or warehousing purposes
  • Obtaining Import – Export codes
  • Identifying agents for product distribution in the U.A.E and neighboring countries
  • Assistance on import of special products and obtaining necessary clearances
  • Shipping, Transport and Logistic advisory and arrangements
  • Processing duty exemption for goods that need to be re-exported
MANUFACTURING COMPANY
  • Submission of application and approvals for commercial trading licenses from the Free Zone Authorities
  • Locating the right premises for the clients for a trading office or warehousing purposes
  • Obtaining Import – Export codes
  • Identifying agents for product distribution in the U.A.E and neighboring countries
  • Assistance on import of special products and obtaining necessary clearances
  • Shipping, Transport and Logistic advisory and arrangements
  • Processing duty exemption for goods that need to be re-exported
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL SERVICE COMPANY
  • Preparation of Business Plans
  • Submission of plans and application processing along with obtaining approvals from Free Zone Authorities for manufacturing licenses
  • Identifying the right place / premises with appropriate utility requirements for operating an industry
  • Approaching the respective government departments for obtaining other approvals related to electricity uploading, environmental clearances, labour visa’s etc
  • Import & Export procedures and assistance
  • Approval from Chamber of Commerce’s and Economic departments for ensuring goods produced or manufactured locally are qualified to be supplied in the local market
  • Identifying distributors and agent for products in the U.A.E and GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council markets)
Our Services
  • Name Approval for New Company
  • Business plans
  • Trade License and Establishment card, Chamber of commerce
  • Employment Visa
  • Residence Visa Stamping
  • Residence Visa Renewal
  • Visit Visa
  • Visit Visa Extension
  • Transfer Residence Visa
  • Residence Visa Cancellation
  • Adding New Partner
  • Changing of status from Partner to Sole Ownership
  • Guarantee Release (Visit Visa / Employment Visa / Original Visa)
  • Family Residence / Visit Visa / Stamping / Renewal
  • Official Letters to AFZA
  • Attestations from Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Memorandum Of Association
  • Legal Translation
  • Tourist Visa
  • Maid Visa
  • Ministry of Health
  • Emirates ID
  • Finger Print Report
  • Ajman Police, CID Report
Type Of Companies Formed In The Free Zones

Mentioned below are the types of companies formed in Free Zone's signifying their legal status

FREE ZONE ENTITY

This type of a company is a proprietor or one owner company and is incorporated in the free zone. They are fast to form and the processes are fairly quick.

FREE ZONE COMAPNY

This type of a company is defined as a partnership firm, having multiple individuals as shareholders and is incorporated in the Free Zone. FZCO's are also fast to form and can be set up within 48 hours.

BRANCH OF A FOREIGN COMPANY

This type of a company refers to a company establishing itself in the free zone or the U.A.E as a branch of a foreign based company. The procedures to form this company type can be slightly more time consuming as documentation process is tedious. However, with our services and assistance, we can assist in speedy formation of Branch of foreign companies within 48 hours.

BRANCH OF A LOCAL COMPANY

This type of a company refers to a branch of an onshore U.A.E based company that intends to establish their presence in the Free Zone. Our offerings include a comprehensive support whereby we undertake all services on behalf of our clients and ensure that complete company set up requirements of the investor are concluded within days on taking up a job.

Free Zones Licenses & Premises

U.A.E now has a diverse range of free zones operating in the country segmented into attracting particular type of businesses. Some attract vertical type of businesses (Media, Advertising, Information Technology, etc) where as others are generic in nature and welcome all types of businesses

TYPE OF LICENSES
  • Commercial Licenses: Commercial Licenses are issued to companies engaged in trading (import & export) of goods and services. These can be broadly classified into types as appended below:
    • Specific Trading License - This type of a license refers to companies involved in trading, import & export of specific goods or single product lines. For e.g.: Mobile Phones, Textiles or Furniture, etc .
    • General Trading Licenses - The General trading license is issued to companies dealing in multiple products. Generally there are no limitations on trading in product type if they are generic in nature; however a few activities or product lines are restricted.
  • Manufacturing Licenses - Manufacturing License is issued to companies who intend to produce or manufacture goods in the U.A.E. In order to obtain this license, companies need to qualify based upon the rules and regulation of the U.A.E in response to environment and labour issues. We can assist on basis of our experience and draw up appropriate business plans to obtain approvals.
  • National Industrial Licenses - This is a specific type of license issued to companies having a 51% equity of a GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) National or a Company. The benefit of having this license that goods produced have a tax free access in the GCC countries (U.A.E, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait & Saudi Arabia)
  • Professional Service License - Is issued to companies engaged in providing only services such as Marketing Consultancy, Management Consultancy, etc.
TYPE OF PREMISES

The types of premises would vary depending on the type of the free zone and activity that needs to be pursued along with the facilities required. Appended below gives transient information on the different premises available:

  • Offices - Office space have a range varying from small to large depending on the type of operation, number of people working for the company and the number of visas required
  • Virtual Offices / Flexi Desks - Some Free Zones in the U.A.E offer a low cost set up by providing 1 or 2 visa's and form companies on shared desks or work stations. These types of companies are ideal for start up entrepreneurs or companies that do not require a large presence requiring only a bank account and legal documentation requirements to re-route their business objectives through tax free areas such as the U.A.E.
  • Warehouse - Free Zones offer warehouse space to accommodate mainly 2 type of activities:
    • Stocking of goods - Storage of goods is allowed for companies engaged in distribution and re-export of merchandise. Some products need special clearances such as flammable chemicals and other sensitive material.
    • LIU's (Light Industrial Units) - Refers to companies involved in small scale production or assembly units
  • Professional Service License - Is issued to companies engaged in providing only services such as Marketing Consultancy, Management Consultancy, etc.
  • Land - is granted to companies on a long term lease who intend to either set up a large scale manufacturing unit or a logistics facility.

With our experience and expertise, we would locate ideal premises to suit your business type and arrange the requisites to obtain necessary approvals as per client's requirements.

Step-Wise Timeline
Step-1
  • Day 1 :
    • Trade name & Activity approval
    • Paper work with payment License collection
    • Apply for establishment card
Step-2
  • Day 4 :
    • Collect Establishment Card
    • Application of Visa
Step-3
  • Day 7 :
    • Collection of Visas
    • Emirates ID, Biometrics
    • Medical Examination
  • Day 9 :
    • Collection of Medical Report
    • Apply for Police Clearance Certificate
Step-4
  • Day 12 :
    • Collection of Police Clearance Certificate & Application for Visa Stamping
    • Collection of passport with stamped Visa.
Relocation Services
  • Pre-arrival preparation
  • Orientation
  • Home Search
  • School Search
  • Administration
  • Delocation
  • Over Seas Home moving
Visa Processing Cost

For a 3 years Director's Visa

S.no Process
1 Refundable Deposit
2 Visa Issurance
3 Emirates ID
4 Medical Clearance
5 Police Clearance
6 Visa Stamping

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