FREE ZONE FILE
UAQ FTZ, Umm Al Quwain Free Trade Zone
What we think
Runs four separate campaign sites that price the same licence-plus-one-visa bundle at four different figures, from AED 4,949 to AED 13,900, without ever stating what differs between them.
Publishes its headline prices, but not everythingPackages
- Free zone licence
- Coworking space
- Bank account assistance
- Zero visa
- Licence covering up to 10 activities
- 1 residence visa and identity card
- Coworking with a lease agreement
- Freelance permit
- Visa and identity card
- Coworking access
- 1 residence visa
- Coworking
- Immigration channel and establishment card
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 5,500 for the entry package and AED 9,999 for the freelance permit. Renewal prices are published only for two promotional packages. No general renewal schedule exists for commercial, consultancy or industrial licences.
Closing the company
Not published. No liquidation, deregistration or licence cancellation fee appears on the official website or on the UAE government portals checked.
Other fees and penalties
Binding terms
- One hundred percent foreign ownership with no UAE national sponsor required.
- Legal forms available are a single-owner company, a multi-owner company, a branch, and a freelancer permit.
- Licence categories are commercial, consultancy and services, and industrial.
- Formation can be completed remotely. Only the final visa stamping requires presence in the UAE.
- Final approval depends on the chosen activity, the documentation and the zone's review.
Contradictions on the zone's own site
- The same promotional page is titled AED 13,900 while its body advertises the package at AED 4,949.
- Four official campaign subdomains price a licence-plus-one-visa bundle at AED 4,949, 12,500, 13,500 and 13,900 without stating what differs.
- Marketing claims no hidden costs and one fixed price while no standalone visa, office or renewal schedule is published.
What this zone does not publish
- Standalone visa fees and per-office visa quotas.
- Office and warehouse rental price list.
- Licence validity period and multi-year discounts.
- Deregistration and liquidation costs.
- Minimum share capital and audit obligations.
- Late renewal penalties and any agent commission terms.
Where every figure above comes from
- uaqftz.com/free-trade-zone
- promotion.uaqftz.com/uaq-start/
- campaigns.uaqftz.com/business-setup-uae-zero-visa-uaq-lyte
- campaigns.uaqftz.com/industrial-land-lease-uae
- moet.gov.ae, official entry, PDF
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.