FREE ZONE FILE
Dubai Humanitarian, ex International Humanitarian City
What we think
The most transparent file in this batch. Licence, renewal, closure, visa, office rent and capital are all published, and the closure fee is AED 1,000, the cheapest exit we found anywhere in the country. The catch is admission: you must be humanitarian-linked to apply.
Publishes its prices, including renewalPackages
- Licence for a humanitarian non-profit organisation
- Standard office allocation
- Renewal at AED 10,000 per two-year term
- Licence for a commercial entity serving the humanitarian sector
- Standard office allocation
- Renewal at AED 17,000 per two-year term
- Desk in the shared business centre
- Humanitarian non-profit rate
- Desk in the shared business centre
- Commercial rate
Where each line was read: product page, a commercial commitment on the zone's own site. Official document, a downloadable schedule, regulation or terms. Blog only, an article on the zone's site, editorial and not contractual. Not published, the zone does not say.
Visas
Offices and desks
Year two, and closing down
The two figures nobody advertises. A cheap first year means nothing if year two doubles, and nothing at all if leaving costs a fortune.
Renewal, per year
AED 10,000 per two-year term for a humanitarian member, AED 17,000 per two-year term for a commercial member. Renewal is billed by two-year cycle, not annually.
Closing the company
AED 1,000 to close and deregister. The cheapest published exit cost of any zone in this comparison.
Other fees and penalties
Binding terms
- Admission is restricted to humanitarian organisations and to commercial entities that serve the aid sector.
- Minimum share capital is AED 50,000.
- Renewal runs on a two-year cycle rather than an annual one.
- Non-profit and commercial members pay two different tariffs for the same facilities.
What this zone does not publish
- Visa quota per office area.
- Warehouse and land pricing.
- Trade name reservation fee.
- Late renewal penalties.
- Audit obligation.
- Any agent or referral commission terms.
Where every figure above comes from
- dubaihumanitarian.ae, membership and fees
Read on the zone's official site on 13 aout 2026. We print the addresses rather than link them, so you can check any figure word for word, and so this page stays a comparison rather than a doorway.
AED 1,000 back on this zone
This zone pays us an introduction fee, and we hand AED 1,000 of it back to you once your trade licence has actually been issued. You pay the zone exactly what you would pay going direct, we never take a dirham from you, and the cashback is only due if you filled in the Free Zone Radar form first.
Figures quoted from the zone are left in the language the zone published them in, so you can check them word for word. This file is available in English and French. The comparator itself is in Arabic too.