Meydan Free Zone Visas

Residency from this licence

The entry tier here carries a quota of 1, expandable with premises. Budget the government chain per person (permit → medical → biometrics → stamping) at roughly AED 3,500–5,500 plus insurance, and 5–10 working days. Family sponsorship opens the moment the founder's residency stamps.

Golden Visa routes (property, investor, talent, entrepreneur) run parallel to company residency — many founders hold the 10-year visa and keep the company visa quota for staff.

Family and team, sequenced

Founder residency first, family second, staff third — that order keeps quota headroom honest at Meydan Free Zone and lets the establishment card mature before volume hits it.

Tax: the two-minute brief

As a free zone entity, a Meydan Free Zone company can hold the 0% Corporate Tax rate on qualifying income as a QFZP — provided substance, audited accounts and de-minimis conditions hold; otherwise the standard 9% applies above AED 375,000 of profit. Registration with the FTA is mandatory regardless of profit level, and the late-registration penalty is a flat AED 10,000

Ask for the QFZP evidence checklist if you intend to defend the 0% — assumption is not a filing position

Year two, priced honestly

With entry licensing from AED 12,500, renewal is re-quoted fresh each year — WhatsApp GoldenKey for the current written renewal figure, plus establishment card, any visas falling due, insurance and — for audited structures — the accountant's calendar. The renewal file is smaller than incorporation but unforgiving on timing: late renewal accrues daily fines and freezes visa processing.

We include a renewal calendar with every formation, because the cheapest fine is the one that never existed.

What the file actually contains

The file for Meydan Free Zone is assembled once and reused everywhere — licence, immigration, then bank.

Corporate shareholders add attested certificates of incorporation, memoranda and board resolutions — the attestation chain is the schedule-setter, so we start it first.

Advisor’s note

“The files that glide through Meydan Free Zone share one habit: every document was ready before the application opened. Speed is preparation wearing a suit.”

— GoldenKey advisory desk, Ajman Free Zone

The pre-flight checks

Six checks that prevent ninety percent of setup pain:

The economics around this choice

Specialisation in digital business, trading pays off operationally: the authority's reviewers know these activities, the neighbouring tenants are your ecosystem, and banks have an existing book of similar files.

Getting banked, properly

Founders shortlist zones on price and then lose a month at the bank. Avoid that sequence. Digital banks and EMIs onboard fastest and suit early operations; traditional banks add cheques, cash handling and trade instruments as you scale. Many of our clients run both in parallel.

We sequence bank selection before jurisdiction confirmation whenever banking is mission-critical. It reverses the usual failure order.