Sharjah
Business setup in Sharjah
Twenty minutes from Dubai, materially cheaper, and routinely overlooked by founders who assume the emirate border matters more than it does. Your staff can live in Dubai and work here. Your …
The character of the place
Why choose Sharjah?
Twenty minutes from Dubai, materially cheaper, and routinely overlooked by founders who assume the emirate border matters more than it does. Your staff can live in Dubai and work here. Your goods clear the same national customs. Hamriyah handles heavy industry with its own deep-water port; SHAMS issues media licences for less than some zones charge for a desk.
Every authority
Where you can license in Sharjah.
All 5 licensing authorities in the emirate, with issuance times. Each opens a page on what it is good at and what to watch.
Questions
Yes, consistently — both for free zone licences and for mainland establishment costs, and dramatically so for industrial land at Hamriyah.
Sharjah Media City — among the lowest-cost genuine licences in the UAE, issued in days, covering media, marketing, consultancy and IT activities.
Yes, and many people do. The residence visa is sponsored by the Sharjah entity but there is no requirement to live in the emirate that licensed you.
One question
What do you actually need in Sharjah?
Mid-band rates are reasonable, but a registered address alone is still better served by a free zone package that bundles the licence and visa allocation.
Compare the 40 authoritiesOr just ask usThis is where a conventional lease starts making sense against a free zone package, particularly with the rent-free periods currently on offer. Compare the all-in cost including fit-out, not the headline rate.
How visa quota worksOr just ask usThen confirm the building before the district. Service charge, chiller and parking allocation vary enormously between towers at the same rate, and the difference shows up in August.
Ejari and DEWA, step by stepOr just ask us