Professional Licence Dubai 2026: Eligible Activities, Legal Forms, Local Service Agent, Approvals, Costs, Visas and Tax

A professional licence in Dubai (often searched as “professional license Dubai”) is the trade licence DET issues for an occupational, artisan or service activity, where the business earns from the owner’s or staff’s skill rather than from buying and selling goods. It can be held by a sole establishment, a civil company or an LLC. Foreign owners of the first two need a UAE national local service agent; regulated professions also need their regulator’s approval before DET will issue the licence. The professional licence then opens the establishment cards, visas, Dubai Chambers membership and a bank account, like any other mainland licence.

This guide is for consultants, engineers, designers, trainers, accountants, clinicians and craftspeople who want their own professional licence in Dubai. It covers eligible professional activities, the professional or commercial choice, legal forms, the local service agent, approvals, professional licence cost, visas and tax.

It is part of our mainland series. The full formation route, from trade name to bank account, is in our mainland company formation guide. Where another guide covers a topic in depth we summarise it in a few lines and link to it, so you get one clear answer rather than the same text twice. If you would rather hand the file over, our company formation support team runs it end to end.

Professional licence Dubai at a glance

The table gives the short answer to the questions founders ask first. Every row is explained further down, with its source.

Professional licence Dubai: how MIRDXB PRO helps

Most professionals who contact us have one of three questions: “Can I do this on a professional licence?”, “Do I really need a sponsor?” and “What will it cost me each year?” We answer all three in writing before you pay anything. We are an Amer and Tasheel partner in Al Barsha 1, Dubai, and professional licences, with or without a local service agent, are a routine part of our mainland work.

What we do

• Map your work to DET activities. We translate what you will invoice for into activity names and codes, and confirm that they are professional rather than commercial.
• Recommend the legal form. Sole establishment, civil company, one-person LLC or LLC, compared in writing on liability, founding documents, audit, agent, tax and visas.
• Check the regulator first, and tell you what it asks for and in which order, before you sign a lease.
• Review the local service agent agreement where one is needed. We do not act as agent ourselves, so the review is on your side.
• Run the DET file: trade name, initial approval, service agent contract or memorandum, premises and Ejari, licence voucher, then Dubai Chambers.
• Open the employer files and visas: GDRFA establishment card, MOHRE file, the owner’s residence and staff visas, through our corporate PRO services.

How it works

1. Message us on WhatsApp with your activity in plain words, the owners and their nationalities, whether you will hire, and where you plan to work from.
2. We reply in writing with the activity codes, licence type, legal form, agent position, any regulator approval, the government fees and our fee.
3. You approve, and we reserve the trade name and apply for initial approval, then handle any outside approval with you.
4. We check the voucher line by line before you pay, collect the professional licence, register Dubai Chambers, and move on to the establishment cards and visas if you need them.

What it costs

Government fees are passed on at cost, on the authority’s own receipt: DET’s voucher, notary or signing fees, Ejari, Dubai Chambers, GDRFA and MOHRE. A local service agent’s fee is paid by you to the agent under your agreement; we do not add to it or collect it. Our own fee depends on the legal form, any regulator approval and the number of visas, and it is always quoted in writing before we start. See our fees page, and the cost section of this guide for the government lines.

Why professionals use us

• We publish our sources. Every rule in this guide links to the law, resolution or official page it came from, and where official pages disagree we show both.
• We tell you when you do not need us. A single activity with no outside approval can sometimes be licensed online in minutes; if that is your case, we say so.
• We are easy to reach. Al Barsha 1 office, Monday to Thursday and Saturday 09:00 to 18:00, Friday 09:00 to 12:00. Owners abroad can instruct us under a power of attorney where the step allows it.

Professional activities: what counts in Dubai

The legal root is Dubai Law No. 13 of 2011 Regulating the Conduct of Economic Activities in the Emirate of Dubai. Its Article 2 defines an “Occupational or Artisan Activity” as “an activity conducted by one or more natural persons who rely on their physical or intellectual efforts or use certain tools and equipment to perform such activity with a limited capital”. In DET’s licensing language, that is the professional licence: the business sells work, expertise or craft, not goods bought for resale.

DET’s own platform describes the category in similar terms. Invest in Dubai says a professional licence covers “service-based businesses that generate revenue by offering expertise and specialised services, such as consulting firms, administrative services and educational institutions”, and DET’s licensing page mentions “consultancies, legal firms and artisans”. u.ae lists “professional licence” among the eight licence varieties it names for Dubai.

How to identify professional activities on DET’s list

You do not choose “professional” from a menu. You choose one or more activities from DET’s directory, and each activity already carries its licence type. When we queried Invest in Dubai’s public Search Business Activities tool on 25 September 2026, it returned 2,331 activities: 1,167 professional, 658 commercial and 506 industrial. Professional activities are the largest group, and they include some that surprise people.

Most services are professional activities, even capital-heavy ones such as restaurants, car rental and brokerage, and so are small-scale crafts such as tailoring and repairs. The full classification, the ISIC4 logic behind the seven-digit codes and how to combine activities are in our Dubai mainland licence types guide.

Professional licence or commercial licence: which one you need

The choice between a professional licence and a commercial licence is made by what you will invoice for. If you buy goods and sell them on, even online, the activity is commercial. If you sell your time, expertise or craft, it is professional. Invest in Dubai describes the commercial licence as covering “buying and selling of goods and services, including import and export, logistics, retail, software trading, construction and real estate”.

When the answer is both

Some businesses sell a service and a product: an IT consultant who also resells licences, a designer who sells printed goods, a trainer who sells course materials. On a company licence (LLC or one-person LLC), commercial and professional activities can often sit side by side, subject to DET’s review at initial approval; official pages do not publish the combination rules. A foreign owner’s sole establishment is different: it stays professional, and adding trading usually means moving to an LLC.

Do not reach for general trading “to be safe”. It covers goods, not services, and costs AED 15,000 in activity fees on issue and AED 3,000 at every renewal under Executive Council Resolution No. 13 of 2011. A software developer whose income is development fees needs professional activities, with a single software trading line added later if resale becomes real. Our general trading licence guide covers the commercial side.

Legal forms for a professional licence (Dubai)

Once your professional activities are chosen, four legal forms do most of the work. They all produce a professional licence; they differ in who can own them, who is liable, what founding document you sign, and how tax and audit work. The full law on each form is in our types of companies in Dubai guide; here is what matters for professionals.

Sole establishment: one professional, unlimited liability

Law 13/2011, Article 2 defines an establishment as “a Business owned by a natural person for the purpose of conducting an Economic Activity in the Emirate, whose legal personality is not distinct from its owner”. In plain terms, the business is you. You hold 100%, you keep all the profit, and you answer for every debt, contract and fine with your personal assets.

• Who can own it: one natural person. UAE nationals can hold commercial or professional establishments; foreign nationals hold professional ones, with a local service agent (Art. 15(b)). A company cannot own a sole establishment.
• Founding document: no memorandum; for a foreign owner, the notarised service agent agreement on DET’s template (Art. 16).
• Audit and tax: no Companies Law audit; the owner is taxed as a natural person (see below).

Civil company: professionals in partnership

Article 14 of Law 13/2011 lists the “civil works company” as one of Dubai’s four business forms, and Article 15(a) says natural persons “may enter into partnerships to personally conduct Occupational or Artisan Activities in the Emirate”. A legal person may join “provided that the nature of his activity is similar to the nature of the activity conducted by such Business Partnership”. Invest in Dubai describes it as “a company owned by two or more partners practising a professional activity such as tailors, beauty salons, consultancy or training”.

• Who can own it: two or more professionals, of any nationality; non-UAE partners bring in the local service agent.
• Founding document: a notarised partnership contract. Invest in Dubai’s checklist says the memorandum is “issued by DET for LLCs, one-person companies and civil companies”.
• Liability: governed by civil law, not limited to capital like an LLC. The new Civil Transactions Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 25 of 2025, in force 1 June 2026) has its own rules for professional companies, reported by law firms to include partners’ personal liability for professional faults.

One-person LLC: the agent-free route for a solo professional

Federal Decree-Law No. 32 of 2021 on Commercial Companies lets “any single natural or legal person” own an LLC (Art. 71), named as a one person company. It needs no local service agent, and the owner’s liability is limited to the capital, subject to the law. The price is formality: a memorandum in Arabic and attested (Art. 14), an auditor (Art. 102), and corporate tax registration as a company from the start. Many professional activities can be licensed as a one-person LLC; whether DET allows your exact activity in that form is confirmed at initial approval.

LLC with two or more partners

An LLC has 2 to 50 partners (Art. 71), no fixed minimum capital (Art. 76), managers named in the memorandum (Art. 83) and an auditor (Art. 102). It suits professional firms with investors who will not practise, partners who want limited liability, or a mix of professional and trading activities. Our memorandum of association guide covers the founding document.

Branches of existing firms

An established firm can license a branch in Dubai: a branch of a UAE or free zone firm, or of a foreign firm. Some regulators prefer or require this route; the Legal Affairs Department, for example, licenses foreign legal consultancies as branches. Branches of foreign companies no longer need a UAE national agent. Our branch of a foreign company guide covers the documents and attestation.

The four forms side by side

Neither route is better in every case. A consultant with modest contracts and no staff may prefer the lighter sole establishment and accept the agent. A founder signing large or uncapped client contracts often prefers the shield of the one-person LLC and accepts the memorandum and the auditor.

The local service agent on a professional licence

Article 15(b) of Law 13/2011 says “Non-UAE nationals will be authorised to conduct Occupational or Artisan Activities provided that they have an agent (‘Local Service Agent’) who may be a natural person holding the UAE nationality or a legal person whose partners are all holders of the UAE nationality.” Article 16 adds that the agent “will bear no civil or financial liabilities in relation to the work or activity of the Business” and that the relationship must be “a notarised agency agreement based on the template prescribed by the DED”.

So the agent is a representative, not a partner: no shares, no profit, no management, no visa sponsorship. The federal ownership reforms of 2021 removed the Emirati partner rule for companies and the agent rule for foreign branches, but not this one, because it rests on Dubai law. The Ministry of Economy and Tourism’s FAQ confirms that the national agent requirement “still exists when incorporating single-shareholder companies subject to the legislation of local authorities”.

DET charges AED 700 for “appointing a service agent for a licence” (Executive Council Resolution No. 13 of 2011, Schedule 1, item 9). The agent’s own fee is private, usually annual, and no authority publishes it. What to put in the agreement, the red flags in an agent’s offer, notarisation and how to replace an agent are in our local service agent guide. Who may own what, and which activities keep ownership limits, is in our 100% foreign ownership in Dubai guide.

Qualifications and regulator approvals for a professional licence

DET does not decide on its own whether you are fit to practise a regulated profession. Law 13/2011 lets DET set the conditions, documents and approvals for each licence (Art. 6) and requires it to coordinate with other government entities before it decides (Art. 7). In practice, each regulated profession has a regulator that must say yes first, and that regulator sets the qualifications, experience and sometimes the legal form. Invest in Dubai’s “Additional approvals” page lists more than 20 such groups.

The table covers the regulated professional activities we are asked about most. For the full list of approving bodies by activity, see our licence types guide; for the DET stage where outside approvals are triggered, see our initial approval guide.

Qualifications for unregulated professional activities

For professional activities with no outside regulator, such as management consultancy or web design, we found no published DET rule requiring a degree. DET’s initial approval asks for what it needs, which for some activities includes evidence of qualification. Keep your certificates ready.

Getting certificates ready

Where a regulator or DET asks for a degree or professional certificate issued abroad, it usually has to be attested: in the issuing country, by the UAE embassy there, and then by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a legal translation into Arabic where the document is not in Arabic or English. Start early, because attestation often takes longer than the licence itself. Our document attestation service and legal translation service handle both, and our attestation process guide explains the order.

How to get a professional licence (Dubai): step by step

The sequence below follows DET’s path for a new professional licence. The regulator step moves depending on the profession: KHDA and the Legal Affairs Department come after initial approval and before the professional licence, while DHA can start before any trade licence exists.

1. Choose the professional activities you will invoice for. Search Invest in Dubai’s activity tool, read each full description, and confirm the licence type shows as professional. See our licence types guide.
2. Check the regulator. If the profession is regulated, read the regulator’s rules now, before a lease or a trade name.
3. Choose the legal form. Sole establishment, civil company, one-person LLC or LLC, using the comparison above.
4. Reserve the trade name. Professional firms often use the founder’s name; the agent’s name is not part of it. DET’s fee schedule lists AED 200 for a trade name (Resolution 13/2011, item 5). See our trade name registration guide.
5. Apply for initial approval. DET records the owners, nationalities, activities and legal form; AED 100 (item 4). Outside approvals are triggered here.
6. Arrange premises and Ejari. Law 13/2011, Article 17 requires premises suitable for the activity. A business centre desk often works for consultancy; clinics, studios and training centres need space that meets the regulator’s standards. See our office space for a trade licence guide and Ejari registration service.
7. Sign the founding documents. The service agent agreement for a foreign-owned sole establishment or civil company, a partnership contract for a civil company, or a memorandum for an LLC, through DET’s system or a notary.
8. Obtain the regulator’s approval if one applies, in the order that regulator accepts.
9. Pay the licence voucher within 30 days (u.ae) and receive the professional licence. Register with Dubai Chambers, which is mandatory for DET licensees (Dubai Law No. 1 of 2022, Art. 16).
10. Open the employer files if you will sponsor anyone, including yourself: GDRFA establishment card and MOHRE file. Then the owner’s residence and staff visas.
11. Open the bank account and diarise tax. See our corporate bank account guide and the tax section below.

If your activities need no outside approval, DET’s Instant Licence can issue a licence in minutes, with a virtual site for the first year and a bundled GDRFA card and MOHRE card for up to three employees; the MOHRE card option covers sole establishments and civil companies as well as LLCs. A real business location is needed at renewal or on any amendment. Our instant licence guide covers the conditions.

Professional licence cost in Dubai: the government lines

The professional licence cost in government fees is among the lowest on the mainland, because most professional activities carry no activity fee. What moves the total is the premises, the regulator, the legal form and the number of people you sponsor. The table lists the lines a one-owner professional licence meets; every line, every source and five worked company totals are in our mainland business setup cost guide.

Put together, the professional licence cost in our worked case for a foreign management consultant on a sole establishment with a local service agent, a business centre office at an assumed registered rent of AED 20,000 and no staff comes to AED 4,197.75 to 5,697.75 in government lines. The range comes from the Dubai Chambers category. Rent, the agent’s annual fee, health insurance, accounting and any service fees sit on top, because they are set by the market or by contract, not by any authority.

Professional licence cost lines no authority publishes

Rent (usually the largest line), the local service agent’s annual fee, audit and accounting, professional indemnity insurance and certificate attestation are priced by the market. We name them but do not invent numbers for them.

Professional licence cost at renewal

A licence can be issued for up to four years with DET’s approval and is renewed within its last month (Law 13/2011, Art. 8). The recurring lines are DET’s renewal voucher, the market fee on your current rent, Dubai Chambers, the agent’s fee where you have one, and the regulator’s annual fee where it applies. Whether DET repeats the AED 700 agent line at renewal is not stated in the resolution; your renewal voucher shows it. Renew late and Executive Council Resolution 13/2011 adds AED 250 for failing to renew plus AED 200 a month. See how to renew a trade licence in Dubai and expired trade licence in Dubai.

Professional licence Dubai visas: the owner and the staff

A professional licence sponsors visas like any mainland licence, through the business’s own immigration and labour files, never through the local service agent.

First, the employer files

• GDRFA establishment card (immigration file): AED 280 digitally. It lets the business sponsor residence visas in Dubai. See our establishment card guide.
• MOHRE establishment card (labour file): the Ta’qeem fee is AED 406. It lets the business apply for work permits. See our MOHRE labour card guide and our labour file opening service.
• Quota. How many visas the business can hold depends on its premises and activity. A single business centre desk supports far fewer visas than a full office. See our company visa quota guide.

The professional licence owner’s own residence

The owner of a professional licence is sponsored as an investor or partner, not as an employee. The route depends on the legal form, and the official cards are incomplete on this point. What that means at MOHRE and at immigration is explained in investor vs partner vs employee visas in the UAE.

Staff visas on a professional licence

Each hire goes through MOHRE (work permit, contract) and GDRFA (entry permit or status change, medical, Emirates ID, residence). For a category 2 company hiring from abroad, the published government lines come to about AED 2,894 a person. The line-by-line breakdown and the category rules are in our employment visa cost guide, and our employment visa service runs the files. Regulated professionals, such as DHA-licensed clinicians or RERA brokers, also need their personal practice licence or card before they start work.

Once your own residence is issued, you can sponsor your family; see our family residence visa service. Emiratisation targets start at 20 skilled workers in specified sectors (Emiratisation rules guide).

Professional licence Dubai tax: corporate tax and VAT for professionals

This is where the legal form makes the biggest practical difference, and where many professionals are misinformed. The rule for a sole establishment is set by Cabinet Decision No. 49 of 2023, issued on 8 May 2023 and in force from 1 June 2023, and explained in the Federal Tax Authority’s guide on the taxation of natural persons (CTGTNP1, November 2023).

Sole establishment: the owner is taxed as a natural person

Because a sole establishment has no personality separate from its owner, corporate tax looks at the individual. Article 2 of Cabinet Decision 49/2023 says a natural person is subject to corporate tax on business activities “only where the total Turnover derived from such Businesses or Business Activities exceeds AED 1,000,000 … within a Gregorian calendar year”. The FTA confirms that this “includes sole establishments and individual partners in Unincorporated Partnerships”.

• Turnover is gross income, combined. The FTA guide says turnover from all of a person’s businesses is added together, for example “income derived from a sole proprietorship or their share of income from a fiscally transparent Unincorporated Partnership”.
• Some income never counts. Wages, personal investment income and real estate investment income are excluded, whatever the amount.
• The AED 1 million is a threshold, not an allowance. The FTA guide’s worked example is blunt: “there is no exemption for the profit relating to the first AED 1 million of Turnover.” Once turnover crosses the line, the whole taxable income is in scope.
• Rates. 0% on taxable income up to AED 375,000 and 9% above it.
• Tax period. The Gregorian calendar year, with one Tax Registration Number for all the person’s businesses.
• Registration. A resident natural person registers by 31 March of the year after the year in which turnover exceeded AED 1 million (FTA). Late registration carries an AED 10,000 administrative penalty.
• Return. Within nine months of the end of the tax period, so by 30 September for a calendar year.
• Drawings are not salary. Amounts the owner withdraws from a sole proprietorship “even if described as Wage or salary cannot be deducted” (FTA guide, Art. 33(5) of the Corporate Tax Law).

Small Business Relief and its extension to 2029

A taxable person whose revenue does not exceed AED 3 million, in the relevant and all previous tax periods, can elect for Small Business Relief and be treated as having no taxable income (Ministerial Decision No. 73 of 2023, Art. 2). The FTA guide confirms that natural persons can elect for it. The relief covers tax periods starting on or after 1 June 2023 and ending on or before 31 December 2029 (extended by Ministerial Decision No. 131 of 2026). For a sole establishment, whose tax period is the calendar year, 2026 is therefore the last year the relief can cover under the current decision. It is an election in the return, not an exemption from registering.

A worked example

This follows the method in the FTA’s natural persons guide, with figures a consultant might meet.

One-person LLC and LLC: taxed as a company

An LLC is a juridical person, so it registers for corporate tax as a company whatever its turnover, within three months of incorporation under FTA Decision No. 3 of 2024, with the AED 10,000 penalty for late registration (Cabinet Decision No. 10 of 2024). The same 0% and 9% bands and Small Business Relief apply. The owner’s salary from an LLC is a wage, which is not the owner’s business income. Our corporate tax registration guide covers EmaraTax step by step.

Civil company: take advice

We found no official page that states, for a Dubai civil company specifically, whether the FTA treats it as a juridical person or as a fiscally transparent unincorporated partnership whose partners are taxed individually. The answer changes who registers and when. Take tax advice on your partnership before you choose this form.

VAT

VAT is separate. Registration is mandatory once taxable supplies exceed AED 375,000 over 12 months and voluntary from AED 187,500. A professional licence holder selling services to UAE clients usually meets VAT well before corporate tax; our corporate tax registration guide covers the VAT side too.

Premises for a professional licence, home working and lighter licences

Law 13/2011, Article 17 requires premises suitable for the activity. For many professional activities, a desk in a DET-approved business centre is enough to license the business, though it limits the visa quota. Clinics, training centres and studios need premises that meet their regulator’s standards, which usually decides the lease. Our office space guide explains what DET accepts.

If you want to work from home, DET has two home-based licences. The e-Trader licence costs AED 1,070 plus AED 300 Dubai Chambers membership and is a sole proprietorship; Emirates 24|7 reported in September 2026 that non-GCC residents may hold only professional activities on it. The Intelaq licence is for UAE and GCC nationals residing in Dubai. Both are narrower than a full professional licence. Our home business licence guide compares them.

Freelance permit or professional licence?

Independent professionals often weigh a professional licence against a freelance permit or a home licence.

Our freelance permit service covers the permit route; our free zone vs mainland guide covers the free zone side.

After the professional licence is issued: what to keep up

• Dubai Chambers membership, renewed with the professional licence. See our Dubai Chamber membership guide.
• Regulator licences, which renew on their own cycles; a lapse can block the professional licence renewal.
• The local service agent agreement, renewed and paid on its terms. A lost agent is urgent; replace one by licence amendment.
• Changes notified within ten working days. Law 13/2011, Art. 19(3) requires notice of any change in the information behind the professional licence. Adding an activity, a partner or a new address is an amendment; see our trade licence amendment guide.
• Beneficial owner filings for companies. An LLC files its beneficial owner data within 60 days of licensing and updates it within 15 days of a change (Cabinet Decision No. 109 of 2023). See our UBO register guide.
• Establishment cards and visas, which expire on their own dates. Our establishment card renewal service and trade licence renewal service keep them in step.

Professional licence myths: what circulates online that is not true

Professional licence rules: where official sources are silent or disagree

How to verify every professional licence figure in this guide

Professional licence Dubai in practice: five cases

These cases are built from the situations we see most often. Names and identifying details are left out, and the figures are the published ones.

1. A solo IT consultant choosing between a sole establishment and a one-person LLC

Situation: A non-GCC software architect leaving employment wants to contract directly with two Dubai companies, working from a business centre desk, with no staff in year one.

Assessment: Software design (6201001) is among the professional activities. As a sole establishment he needs a local service agent and carries unlimited liability; as a one-person LLC he needs a memorandum and an auditor but no agent. His client contracts carried uncapped liability for data breaches. Route: one-person LLC, confirmed at initial approval; corporate tax registration diarised within three months of incorporation; VAT registration planned once contracted fees passed AED 375,000.

2. A management consultant who expected tax at AED 1 million profit

Situation: A consultant on a sole establishment invoiced AED 1.2 million in her second calendar year, with about AED 300,000 of costs, and planned to register “when profit reaches a million”.

Assessment: Turnover, not profit, crossed the AED 1 million line, so she had to register by 31 March of the following year. Taxable income of AED 900,000 would carry AED 47,250 at standard rates, but her revenue was under AED 3 million, so Small Business Relief could be elected for that tax period, since the relief covers periods ending by 31 December 2029 (Ministerial Decision No. 131 of 2026). Route: registration on EmaraTax before the deadline, bookkeeping moved to a proper ledger, and the relief elected in the return on her adviser’s advice.

3. Two engineers and a Dubai Municipality registration

Situation: Two foreign structural engineers want to practise together as an engineering consultancy.

Assessment: A civil company fits two practising partners, with a local service agent for the foreign partners. But engineering consultancy now sits under Dubai Law No. 14 of 2025, which requires registration and classification with Dubai Municipality alongside the trade licence. Route: Dubai Municipality’s requirements read first; a notarised partnership contract covering profit shares, signing authority, exit and professional liability; the agent agreement on DET’s template; tax advice on how the partnership would be treated.

4. A foreign lawyer who wanted a legal consultancy sole establishment

Situation: A lawyer qualified abroad planned a legal consultancy sole establishment with a local service agent.

Assessment: Legal services may only be provided through a firm licensed by the Legal Affairs Department, and a local legal consultancy’s owner must be a UAE national. A foreign-owned sole establishment with an agent does not fit. Route: the realistic options were joining a licensed firm, or a branch of her foreign firm if it met the LAD’s conditions (at least eight years old, in two or more countries, three legal consultants in Dubai).

5. A physiotherapist opening a small clinic

Situation: A physiotherapist licensed abroad wants a professional licence for a two-room clinic and a second therapist.

Assessment: The clinic needs a DHA facility licence and a DET professional licence; every practitioner, including the owner, needs a DHA professional licence, activated through a DHA-licensed facility. DHA says a trade licence before applying for the facility is optional, which let the DHA file start first. Route: DHA eligibility and assessment for both therapists; premises chosen to DHA standards before signing; the facility and trade licence aligned; GDRFA and MOHRE files, then visas for the second therapist.

What we will and will not do

• We will map your work to DET activities and confirm they are professional; compare the legal forms in writing; tell you which regulator applies and what it asks for; review a local service agent agreement; run the trade name, initial approval, signing, premises, licence and Dubai Chambers; open the establishment cards and visas; and tell you when a question belongs with a lawyer or tax adviser.
• We will not act as your local service agent or nominee; describe your activity in a way that does not match your work to avoid a regulator or reach a cheaper form; promise that DET or a regulator will approve; or give tax advice on your accounts.

Related guides

• Mainland company formation: the complete step-by-step guide
• Dubai mainland licence types
• Local service agent in Dubai
• Types of companies in Dubai mainland
• Mainland business setup cost in Dubai
• Initial approval in Dubai
• 100% foreign ownership in Dubai
• Corporate tax registration in the UAE
• Home business licence in Dubai
• Office space for a trade licence in Dubai
• UAE employment visa cost, line by line

Setting up professional licences, keeping agent agreements, Chamber membership, establishment cards and visas in step, and renewing them on time is what our PRO services in Dubai team handles every day.