About Product Registration:

Before launching your products in the market you must register them with the municipality to maintain product quality and assure consumer safety. This also prevents the commercialization of duplicate products and limits the trade of artificial and harmful products in the UAE.

Benefits:
  • Label protection
  • Brand protection
  • Import and re-export rights
  • Easy trade inside and outside UAE
  • GCC launch option availability
  • Minimum or no tax on manufacturing, importing or re-exporting of products in Dubai

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Requirements:

  • Two passport-size pictures, as per UAE visa photo requirements
  • Your entry visa
  • Your original passport
  • UAE visa application form
  • Medical fitness test clearance certificate
  • Sponsor’s legal residency/UAE citizenship proof
  • UAE health insurance certificate
  • For work visas – employment contract copy, employing company’s valid trade license copy and valid firm card copy
  • For family visas – proof of family ties such as birth/marriage certificates

General requirements

  • Sponsor’s passport with residence visa and Emirates ID
  • Dependents’ passport copies
  • Dependents’ passport-size photo
  • Attested marriage certificate (MOFA, country attestation, Arabic translation)

Minimum salary requirements:

  • For male expatriates: AED 4,000 or AED 3,000 plus accommodation.
  • For female expatriates: AED 10,000 or AED 8,000 plus accommodation.
  • The minimum monthly salary to sponsor parents and parents-in-law is AED 20,000.

Proof of relationship and dependency:

  • Marriage certificate (attested & translated copy).
  • Birth certificate for children (attested & translated copy).
  • With a non-objection certificate from the biological parent for stepchildren.
  • With legal adoption papers for adopted children.
  • Sponsor’s birth certificate for parents.
  • Additional documents to show proof of parents’ dependency may be required.

A sponsor may also apply for dependent visas for parents-in-law by submitting a marriage certificate and the spouse’s birth certificate. In this way, a connection between the sponsor and the parents-in-law can be established.

Proof of domicile:

The sponsor must be able to show that the dependent will have a decent place to stay while residing in the UAE, that the domicile will have enough rooms for the number of dependents, and that the domicile actually has active utilities.

  • Tenancy contract or title deed.
  • At least 1 bedroom for immediate family – spouse and children.
  • At least 2 bedrooms for extended family – parents or parents-in-law.
  • Recent utility bills (DEWA, SEWA, ADDC, etc.)

In addition to this, family members over 18 years of age have to pass the medical fitness test from a health centre approved by the UAE government.

Process for mainland license

  1. Choose business activity
  2. Choose company structure
  3. Get trade name approval
  4. Get initial license approval
  5. Get external approval (if required)
  6. License issuance
  7. Open company bank account
  8. Get establishment card
  9. Labour file
  10. Process visa

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