Name of the Organization : Department of Economic Development
Type of Facility : Issue Initial Approval
Location: Dubai
Country: United Arab Emirates
Official Website : https://ded.ae/
Issue Initial Approval:
Issuing an initial approval is one of the dynamic e-services offered by DED to its users and is a pre-requisite for having a license issued.
Related : Abu Dhabi DED Issuing Licenses of Individual Companies : www.statusin.org/10384.html
Note:
Only one Initial approval request is allowed to be processing at one time.
To issue an initial approval:
On Business Dashboard page, under My Transactions, click Issue Initial Approval.
Issuing an initial approval is composed of the following successive steps:
Adding license information:
In the License Category section, select DED License from the drop-down list, and then click Next.
from the Legal Type drop-down list, select the legal type of the activity for which you issue an initial approval, and then click Next.
The next step after adding the license information is specifying the business activities to be added on the license that will be issued. For more information about adding business activities to the license, please refer to Specifying business activities.
Specifying business activities:
The license owner can add more than one activity to the same license.
To add license activities:
** In the Business Activities tab, in the Activities section, click Search Business Activities.
** Select the activity from the Activity Group drop-down list, and then click Search.
** In the Search Results section, in front of the activity category that matches your field, click Select.
** Activities you have chosen appear in the Selected Activities section.
** After you are done of selecting the activities, click Save & Close.
** In the Activities section where the code, description, and type of the selected activity appear, click Next.
To delete your selected activities:
Select the Activity Code check box and then click Delete.
Now, you have identified the activities to be added to the license you want to issue. After that, you will define the owners and partners who will be included in the license. For more information, please refer to Identifying owners and partners added on the license.
Identifying owners and partners added on the license:
After identifying the activities you want to be added to the license and getting their codes, you start identifying the owners and partners who will want to be included in the license. Having selected the country of the owner / partner, the system searches in DED data base and displays the relevant search results.
To search for owners / Partners in DED data base:
** In the Owners / Partners tab, click Find Person.
** In the Search Criteria window, select the country of the person you want to select from the drop-down list, and then click Search.
** In the Serial Nr. column, click the serial number of the person you want to add.
** From the Role drop-down list, select the role the person you have added, and then click Add.
** The related information of the added person appears. Select the Person’s Serial check box, and then click Check for Business Rule.
Having identified partners and owners, then you will be directed to the last step in issuing the initial approval which attaching the required documents. To know more about attaching documents, please refer to Attaching the required documents.
Attaching the required documents:
In order to complete your issuing an initial approval request, the three following documents should be attached to your request:
** Copy of Nationality Card (those w/o any previous licenses)
** Passport Copy (those w/o any previous licenses)
** Permission from Court for persons below 21 years to carry on business
To upload documents:
** In the Uploaded Documents section, in front of the required document, click Upload Document.
** In the Document to be uploaded section, click Choose File, locate the file to be uploaded from your machine, and then click Save.
Uploaded documents can not be deleted after being uploaded. However, it can be re-uploaded to be replaced by another.
After uploading all documents, click Apply for Initial Approval.