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Insights
Working notes from the people who file the applications — what the rules actually say, what they cost, and where founders lose time. Written against the authorities, not against a brochure.
The archive
Briefings on Visas & residency
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Visas & residency
Commercial, Professional or Industrial: The Choice That Decides Ownership, Agents and Visa Quota
Three of them cover most of the market — commercial, professional and industrial — and none of them is picked from a menu. -
Visas & residency
In a free zone your licensor is also your landlord, your immigration channel and the party that must agree before you can sell your own shares
Free zone comparisons are written about price, sector and tax. The durable difference is who you are dealing with. -
Visas & residency
A free zone licence does not come with visas. It comes with an allocation, and the facility you leased decided that number before anyone showed you step one.
Every step-by-step guide to a Dubai free zone visa begins at the entry permit, which is roughly four decisions too late. -
Visas & residency
A UAE offshore company holds things. It will never hold a trade licence, a residence visa or a UAE customer, and no fee changes that.
An offshore company is a body corporate on a company authority's record with no licence to trade and no address it occupies.
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