Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO)

Dubai Silicon Oasis is located 30 minutes from Jebel Ali Port and Rashid Port next to Dubai Al Ain Roads. The free zone is home to the so-called Dubai Digital Park, a smart city spread over 150,000 square metres and consisting of office buildings, apartments, numerous cafés and restaurants with a developed infrastructure for work and life.

• A favorable infrastructure for opening a company office;
• Support for technology projects.

Free zone specialises in attracting high-tech companies, promoting modern industries, innovation, development and research in these fields, so it positions itself as a high-tech park, a silicon valley. Companies from the fields of IT, GameDev, telecom, engineering and others are usually registered in this freezone.

Companies wishing to set up operations in the DSO can choose from three types of license:

1. Service license: provision of the services specified in the license.
2. Trade license: the import, export and sale of goods specified in the license.
3. Industrial license: import of raw materials, production, processing, collection, packaging and export of finished goods.

Capital requirement for FZE/FZCO: AED 100,000 (approximately USD 27,000). There is no minimum capital requirement for setting up a branch.

The fees depend on the company type, as well as the activities and number of visas to be issued.

1 to 3 weeks depending on participants, company type and speed of documents submission.