Setting Up A Company
- Commercial licences cover all kinds of trading activity.
- Professional licences cover professions, services, craftsmen and artisans.
- Industrial licences are for establishing industrial or manufacturing activities.
- select your business activity (see below)
- select your legal form
- register your trade name
- apply for an Initial Approval Certificate
- rent/buy commercial premises
- obtain special licensing approvals (if required)
- Register with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI) (some small businesses and artisans exempt).
- Apply for an establishment immigration card.
- Apply for an establishment labour card.
- Apply for immigration and individual labour cards.
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