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FREE ZONE · ABU DHABI

Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi

Setup: Company set-up in 24 hours.Official site

Abu Dhabi free zone group with logistics parks, industrial plots and startup workstations between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Packages

Year-1 prices as published. The agency confirms the final price.

Licence + 1 visa · 1 Visa Package, 1 year (VAT included)Includes: Free zone business licence; startup solutions page lists shared workstations or dedicated offices. Package contents are not itemised.Not included: Not itemised. Tariff lists establishment card 1,000 and employment residence 1,500 separately; not stated whether included.
9,450 AEDOfficial
Licence + 2 visas · 2 Visa Package, 1 year (VAT included)Includes: As above for 2 visas.Not included: Not itemised. Tariff lists establishment card 1,000 and employment residence 1,500 separately; not stated whether included.
11,150 AEDOfficial

Fees not in the package price

Employment residence permit (not stated whether included)
1,500 AEDOfficial
Initial approval
450 AEDOfficial
ID card
300 AEDOfficial

What each residence visa adds

Fees on top of the licence, as the zone publishes them. "Per visa" is paid for each person, "per company" once.

Establishment card, newper company
1,000 AEDOfficial
Employment residenceper visa
1,500 AEDOfficial
Initial approvalper visa
450 AEDOfficial
In-country visa (status change)per visa
800 AEDOfficial
Residence permit renewalper visa
0 AEDOfficial

Renewal

Licence renewal after 2 years for industrial, trading or service licences; general trading is 15,000. Workstation lease renewal is not stated.
5,000 AED a yearOfficial

The licence

Office. Startup solutions include shared workstations or dedicated offices; the package page does not say which is in each package.

Activities. Services, Trading, Industrial. New industrial, trading or service licence with up to 5 activities; a general trading licence is also listed.

Side by side

Know before you choose

  • No 0-visa package is published; the lowest package includes 1 visa.
  • Packages are listed as 1, 2, 3 and 4 visas for 1, 2 or 3 years; 2-year 1-visa is 17,800 and 3-year is 22,575.
  • Medical and Emirates ID fees are not on the tariff page.
  • The page says no security deposits on start-up packages and no deposits for visas.

Not published

We could not find these on the sources we read: a no-visa package price, whether remote setup is possible, the rules for trading on the mainland.

Sources

Read on 2 Oct 2026.