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One form. We pass it to the right licensing partner and your itemised quote comes back in writing.
There is no phone number on this site and that is deliberate. Fill in the form, and your details go to a licensing partner matched to your case rather than into a call centre queue. If Ajman NuVentures Centre is not right for what you are building, you will be told that instead of being sold a licence.
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Tell us what you need
Fill this in and we pass it to the right licensing partner. Your quote comes back in writing.
Why there is no phone number
You write it once
Four pieces of information in a form beat a phone call where the same questions get asked and half the answers are written down wrong.
It reaches the right desk
Your details go to a partner matched to your activity and visa count, rather than to whoever happened to pick up.
Nothing moves until you send it
No cold calling, no list, and nothing shared with anybody before you press the button.
What happens after you send it
We read it properly
A person reads what you wrote rather than a template firing back. If the activity needs checking against the zone's approved list, it gets checked before anything is passed on.
It goes to one partner
Matched to your activity, your visa count and whether a corporate shareholder is involved. One partner, not a list of them, so you are not called by six people.
A written, itemised quote
One number broken into lines, VAT shown, with the year two renewal figure on the same page. Ajman NuVentures Centre renews at a figure stated in your quote, so that figure is knowable.
Your decision, no chasing
If you go ahead the file opens. If you do not, you keep the quote. There is no sequence and no follow up campaign.
What to put in the message
Four pieces of information are enough to price the entire thing accurately. Everything else can wait for the call.
The first is what you sell. Not the industry, the actual activity: consultancy in a named field, trading in a named category of goods, software development, an online store selling a particular type of product. The activity determines which licence type applies, whether an external regulator approval is needed, and therefore both the price and the timeline. A vague description produces a vague quote and usually an optimistic one.
The second is who buys it. Clients outside the UAE, UAE companies, consumers online, or a mix. This is the question that decides whether a free zone licence is right for you at all, and it is the one we would rather establish in the first message than in week three. If your customers are UAE corporates paying you directly for work delivered here, we will tell you this is the wrong licence rather than quoting you for it.
The third is whether you need a residence visa. It is the difference between AED 4,888 and AED 10,800 and it is the single largest variable in the quote. If you are not sure, say so: there are three situations where the licence alone is genuinely the better choice and we will walk through whether you are in one of them.
The fourth is how many people will be on the file. Just you, or a partner, or a family, or staff. Visa allocation is tied to the facility rather than to your intentions, so a file with six people on it is priced differently from a file with one, and it is far better to size it once at the start than to discover the constraint when the third application is blocked.
Anything beyond those four is useful but not necessary. If you already have a company elsewhere, if there is a corporate shareholder involved, if you are currently on a visit visa with a known expiry, or if you are transferring from an employment visa, mention it, because each of those changes the sequence. None of them is a problem and all of them are easier handled from the start than discovered halfway.
- What you sell, specifically rather than by industry
- Who buys it, and whether they are UAE based
- Whether you need a residence visa
- How many people will be on the file
- Any corporate shareholder, existing visa or visit visa expiry
What comes back, and what it contains
A document you can compare against anybody else's, which is the point of itemising it.
The quote is written, itemised and dated. It names the licence type and the activities it will carry, the government fee component, the immigration elements line by line where a visa is included, the VAT and the total. It also states the year two renewal, which on Ajman NuVentures Centre's own rate card is the same as year one.
Where something in your case carries an external approval, a regulator sign off on a licensed activity for instance, it appears on the quote with its fee and its expected effect on the timeline, rather than being discovered later and invoiced as a variation. Where attestation of foreign documents is required, that is flagged as a cost at the country's rate rather than absorbed into an estimate we would then have to revisit.
The timeline on the quote is the realistic one for your specific case rather than the marketing one. For a standard activity with individual shareholders and complete documents, two to four weeks to the licence. Where your file has a reason to run longer, the quote says so and says why, because a timeline you can plan around is worth more than a fast one you cannot rely on.
It is valid for a stated period rather than indefinitely. Government fees are set by authorities that can change them, so a quote that claims to hold forever is making a promise on someone else's behalf. Ours holds for a defined window and the date is on it.
If you want a three year view rather than a setup price, ask and we will put it in writing: year one, the year two renewal, and year three with the visa renewal landing in it. That is a considerably more useful basis for a decision than a single number, and it is the comparison we would want if we were the ones buying.
How we follow up, which is barely
One quote, one follow up, and then nothing until you get in touch. That is the whole policy.
You will get the quote. If you have not replied, you will get one follow up message a few days later asking whether you want anything clarified. After that, nothing. No sequence, no weekly check in, no artificial deadline attached to a price that was never going to expire that week.
This is a deliberate choice and it costs us conversions. It also means that when somebody does come back six months later, which happens regularly, the conversation starts from where it left off rather than from an apology. Company formation is a decision with a real timeline attached to it, usually tied to a job ending, a contract starting, a school year or a move, and pressure does not accelerate any of those.
What we will do, if you ask for it, is stay useful in the meantime. If your plan depends on something that has not happened yet, tell us when it might and we will check in at that point rather than before. If you want the quote reissued at current fees when you are ready, say so and it will be reissued rather than honoured stale or quietly increased.
If you decide against Ajman NuVentures Centre entirely, that is a legitimate outcome and it does not need explaining. We would genuinely rather hear that than not, because it stops the follow up and it occasionally tells us something useful about where the offer does not fit.
The other side of this is that we expect the same directness back. If the price is the problem, say the price is the problem. If a competing quote is cheaper, send it and we will tell you honestly whether it is cheaper or whether it is missing the visa, the VAT or the renewal. That conversation is more useful to you than either of us pretending the comparison is not happening.
One quote, one follow up, then nothing until you get in touch. It costs us conversions, and it means the conversation six months later starts where it left off.
Where your enquiry actually goes
To one licensing partner, matched to your case. Not to a panel, and not to a lead marketplace where several agents buy the same name.
It is worth being specific about this, because the standard model on setup websites is the opposite of it. In the usual arrangement an enquiry is sold to several agents at once, and the person who filled in the form is then called by four of them inside an hour. Everybody involved has an incentive to reach you first rather than to answer you well, and the experience is unpleasant enough that many people stop answering their phone entirely.
Here the enquiry is read by a person, checked against what you described, and passed to one partner whose listed capabilities match your case. Activity, visa count, whether a corporate shareholder is involved and whether warehousing is in the picture are the things that decide the match. If your case is obviously wrong for Ajman NuVentures Centre, you are told that and nothing is passed to anybody at all.
That partner quotes you directly and the file is theirs. We are not copied into your pricing, we do not sit between you and them, and nobody follows up behind them. If they cannot take the case, it moves to the next match rather than sitting unanswered.
The partners are listed publicly with their names and numbers on the agents page, which is the other half of this. If you would rather skip the form entirely and call somebody yourself, that list exists precisely so you can. It is a deliberate choice to put their numbers on the site rather than ours.
The consent box on the form is agreeing to exactly this and nothing wider: that your details go to a licensing partner so they can quote you. It is not agreeing to marketing, to a list, or to being contacted about anything else.
- Read by a person before it is passed anywhere
- One partner, matched to your activity and visa count
- Nothing passed at all if Ajman NuVentures Centre is wrong for you
- They quote you directly, with nobody in the middle
- Declined cases move on rather than sitting unanswered
Response times, and what happens out of hours
Enquiries are read Sunday to Friday during Gulf business hours. Everything runs in writing, so nothing depends on catching anybody at a desk.
Enquiries sent during Gulf business hours, Sunday to Friday, are normally read the same working day. Anything arriving overnight is picked up the following working morning. Gulf Standard Time is UTC plus four, so a message sent in the European morning lands squarely inside the working day, and one sent from the Americas is answered overnight.
Because the whole exchange is written, none of this depends on time zones the way a phone call does. You describe the business once, properly, and the answer comes back as a document you can read twice and compare against anything else you have been quoted.
During UAE public holidays, and around the two Eid periods in particular, government departments close, which affects processing rather than just replies. If your timeline is tight around a holiday, say so in the message so the file can be paced against the working days actually available.
If you would rather talk something through, say so in the form and a call will be arranged at a time you pick. What will not happen is an unexpected call because you left a number.
Questions worth asking us and everybody else
If you are speaking to more than one agent, and you should be, these are the questions that separate them.
Ask what the price includes at the immigration end. The establishment card, the entry permit, the medical, the Emirates ID and the stamping are five separate items and a quote can omit any of them while still being technically accurate about the licence. This single question resolves most of the apparent price differences in the market.
Ask whether VAT is inside the number. Five percent on a package is enough to reorder a shortlist, and UAE B2B quotes are conventionally written excluding it, which is legitimate but makes comparison harder unless you ask.
Ask what year two costs, in writing. A setup price is a one off and a licence is forever. The cheapest setup in a shortlist is frequently attached to the most expensive renewal, and an agent who will not state the renewal figure is telling you something.
Ask who actually does the work. Some agencies are introducers who pass the file to a processing partner, which is not inherently bad but does mean the person who sold you the service is not the person answering when something stalls. Ask directly whether the people you are speaking to submit the application themselves.
Ask what happens when something goes wrong. A rejected name, an activity that turns out to need a regulator, a bank that declines. These are ordinary events rather than edge cases, and the difference between agents shows up entirely in how they are handled and who pays. An agent who has never had a file stall is an agent who has not done many.
One last thing worth saying to anybody comparing agents. The cheapest quote in a shortlist is rarely the cheapest outcome, and the most expensive is rarely the best service. What actually correlates with a file that runs smoothly is whether the person quoting understood your business well enough to ask a question you had not thought of. If a quote comes back within minutes with no questions attached to a business that clearly has complications in it, that is worth noticing.
- What exactly does the price include at the immigration end
- Is VAT inside the number
- What does year two cost, in writing
- Do you submit the application yourselves or pass it on
- What happens if a name is rejected or an approval is needed
- Can I see the quote itemised rather than as a single figure
What the first two weeks look like from your side
Most of this process happens without you. Here is the short list of moments where you are actually needed.
Day one, you send the message and receive the quote. If you want a call, that happens the same day or the next. The decision is yours to take at whatever pace suits, and nothing starts until you say so.
When you go ahead, you send three name options in order of preference and confirm the activity list. This is the moment worth spending twenty minutes on rather than five, because the activity list is cheap to get right now and expensive to amend later. We will push back if the shortlist is likely to be rejected or if the activities are narrower than your business actually is.
You send the documents. For a single shareholder that is a passport copy, a photograph, proof of address and your current UAE visa page if you have one. It takes a few minutes if you have them to hand. Then you pay, in full or on the instalment terms agreed, and the file opens the same day.
Then you wait, and this is the bulk of the elapsed time. Initial approval, incorporation documents, licence issuance. We tell you when each clears rather than leaving you to wonder, and the only thing needed from you during this stretch is a signature on the memorandum of association and, if you are abroad, a power of attorney.
The last moment you are needed is the trip. Medical and biometrics, booked back to back, two or three days in the country. After that the stamping is electronic and the Emirates ID is delivered. Total demand on your time across the whole process is a conversation, a document upload, a signature and a short trip.
Two things are worth saying about that list. The first is that the waiting stretch is genuinely a waiting stretch: there is no hidden work for you inside it, and being told that plainly is more useful than a weekly update that says nothing. We message when something clears, and otherwise we leave you alone. The second is that the trip is the only part with a hard dependency on your calendar, so if your availability is narrow, tell us the window at the start and the file gets paced backward from it rather than forward from today.
- Day one: your message, our quote, a call if you want one
- On approval: three name options and the activity list confirmed
- Documents uploaded, payment made, file opens the same day
- Two to four weeks of processing, with updates as each stage clears
- One signature on the memorandum, plus a power of attorney if abroad
- A two or three day trip for the medical and the Emirates ID
What to have ready before you start
Five minutes of preparation removes the most common source of delay, which is waiting for a document that is at home in another country.
A passport with at least six months of validity and, ideally, more than a year. Residence stamping links to a specific passport, so renewing mid process means repeating steps. Check the blank pages too, because the visa needs one.
A passport sized photograph against a plain white background, taken recently. Photographs that are cropped from another picture, taken against a patterned wall or several years old get rejected, and the rejection arrives at the worst point in the sequence. It costs nothing to have a proper one taken.
Proof of address from the last three months, usually a utility bill or a bank statement showing your name and your residential address in your home country. A mobile phone bill is sometimes accepted and sometimes not, so a utility or bank document is the safer choice.
Your current UAE visa page or entry stamp if you are already in the country, along with the expiry date. If you are on an employment visa and planning to transfer, find out who controls the cancellation and how long they will take, because that single fact usually dictates the schedule of everything else.
If a company will hold the shares, start gathering the corporate documents now: certificate of incorporation, constitutional documents, a board resolution and a certificate of incumbency, all of which need attestation through the chain in the country of origin. This is the longest lead item in the entire process by a wide margin, and starting it before the application rather than after can halve the elapsed time.
- Passport, six months minimum validity and a blank page
- Recent passport photograph, plain white background
- Proof of address from the last three months
- Current UAE visa page and its expiry, if you have one
- Corporate shareholder documents, attestation started early
What happens to the details you send us
You are about to send your details to a website that will pass them to somebody else. It is entirely reasonable to want that spelled out.
The form collects your name, your contact details, the activity you are asking about and whatever you write in the message. That is used to understand the enquiry and to pass it to one licensing partner who can quote you. The consent box on the form is agreeing to exactly that, and it is the only thing it is agreeing to.
One partner, not several. Your details are not sold, not added to a list, and not circulated to a panel of agents who then compete for your attention by calling you. If that is what you were expecting from a site like this, it is a fair expectation and it is not what happens here.
Nothing is shared before you press send. Reading this page, or any other page, does not put you in touch with anybody.
If you decide not to proceed, your details stay in our records so a later conversation makes sense, and you can ask for them to be deleted instead, which will be done. Ask before you send anything if that matters to you.
The site uses a tag manager and analytics to understand which pages produce enquiries, which is how any advertising spend is judged. That is ordinary web measurement and it is separate from the enquiry itself.
Send documents once a partner has your enquiry and has asked for them, not through this form. The form is for the enquiry only.
Why one zone, and what we actually are
This site covers Ajman NuVentures Centre and nothing else, and it is an introduction service rather than a licensing agent. Both of those are worth being plain about.
Most setup sites quote across nine zones and two mainlands. That sounds like an advantage and it hides a problem: the commission differs between them, so a recommendation made across a long list has a financial gradient inside it that you cannot see.
This site covers Ajman NuVentures Centre. If your business belongs on a mainland licence or in another emirate, there is no second product here to sell you, so saying so costs nothing to withhold and nothing to admit. That is the whole reason for the narrowness.
It is also an introduction service rather than the licensing agent itself. Your details go to a partner who is set up to file with the zone, and they quote you and handle your file directly. We are not a government body, we are not Ajman NuVentures Centre, and we do not present ourselves as either.
What this site does is the part that is usually done badly: explaining what the licence actually covers, what it really costs across the first two years, and which questions to ask before you pay anybody. Everything on the cost page comes from the zone's own published rate card, which is linked rather than paraphrased.
If you would rather call somebody
There is a way to do that, and it does not involve a number belonging to this site.
Some people will not fill in a form, and that is a legitimate preference rather than a problem to be engineered around. If you are one of them, the agents page carries a public list of licensing partners with their names and their numbers, and you can call any of them directly.
That is the deliberate shape of this site. There is no switchboard number here, because a number on a site like this usually routes to whoever is free rather than to whoever knows your case, and because a number collected through a form usually ends up being called at a moment that suits the caller rather than you. Putting the partners' numbers on the page instead means the person you reach is the person who would have handled the file anyway.
The trade off is honest: calling cold means you describe the business from scratch and you get whoever answers, while the form means you describe it once and it reaches somebody matched to it. Neither is wrong. The form produces a better first answer, the call produces a faster one.
If you send the form and then decide you would rather talk it through, say so in the message and a call will be arranged at a time you pick. What will not happen is an unexpected call twenty minutes after you press send because you left a number in a field.
And if you are an agent reading this rather than somebody setting up a company, the agents page is where you list your own name and number so that it appears on that list.
- The agents page carries partner names and numbers, publicly
- Call any of them directly, with nothing in between
- Or send the form and ask for a call at a time you choose
- No unexpected calls because you left a number
Before you send it
The practical questions about getting in touch.