Removing the “cannot be practised inside UAE” mark from a Meydan licence

We read the certificate, which is written entirely in Arabic, against the licence: trade name, licence number, the ticked certification-body activity, the authorised scope and the three-month validity.

In the Meydan channel-partner portal we completed the five application steps of the Company Formation – License Re-issue request with all 12 activities and attached the certificate. Because the certificate is void if altered, we fetched the stored copy back from the portal and confirmed it was byte-identical to the original file.

We checked the fee before submitting: the review page and the request-tracking list both showed AED 0.00, and a completed formation request on the same company in that list showed a real amount, so the zero was not an empty field. The payment screen then itemised every activity at AED 0.00. The request was submitted on 18 September 2026.

We downloaded the released licence and checked it two ways: extracted text (activity 7120.98 present, restriction wording absent, and a control phrase proving the check could read the document) and a visual review of both pages, since a text search would not catch a graphical stamp.