Meydan Free Zone for Vietnamese Citizens

What changes with the passport — and what doesn't

Eligibility doesn't: Vietnamese founders own 100% at Meydan Free Zone, sponsor their own residency, and face the same tariff — from AED 12,500, issuing in ~3–5 working days.

What the passport does shape is the file: documents from Vietnam legalise through the embassy chain serving Ho Chi Minh City, and bank onboarding leans on a source-of-funds narrative written for compliance. Electronics and furniture export offices are the growth story — precedent that helps your file read as familiar.

Zone-side, the differentiator stands: meydan issues a dubai address with fully remote incorporation and e-signature.

Before you commit

Six checks that prevent ninety percent of setup pain:

What the file actually contains

Meydan Free Zone asks for less paper than founders expect. The standard file:

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

The realistic calendar

From signed engagement to licence in hand, Meydan Free Zone runs about 5–7 working days on a clean file. Immigration adds a week per visa; banking runs 1–3 weeks in parallel once the licence exists. Six weeks start-to-operating is the honest median for a full stack.

We publish each milestone to you on WhatsApp as it completes — the calendar above is what we are accountable to, not a brochure estimate.

Advisor’s note

“Nobody remembers saving five hundred dirhams on Meydan Free Zone. Everybody remembers the month a frozen file cost them. Buy certainty.”

— GoldenKey advisory desk, Ajman Free Zone

The avoidable failures

If this page saves you from just one of these, it has paid for the reading time:

Why here, economically

Market context matters here: electronics and furniture export offices are the growth story. That community depth translates into suppliers who know your paperwork, customers who recognise your model, and bankers who have seen your profile succeed before.

Bank account: the real milestone

Banking deserves its own paragraph, because it decides more launches than licensing does. Compliance teams underwrite three things: the credibility of your activity wording, the substance behind the address, and the story your expected flows tell. Meydan Free Zone's licences clear onboarding routinely when those three are prepared in advance

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