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Company formation · Sultanate of Oman
Under the Foreign Capital Investment Law most commercial activities in Oman are open to 100% foreign ownership — no Omani partner, no nominee arrangement. We reserve the name, map the activity, draft the constitutive contract and register it through Invest Easy, then take it through to the commercial registration number.
Start here
Ownership, capital, how many shareholders, and whether you can trade on the mainland all follow from this one decision. Pick the one closest to your plan and the facts below change with it.
The default for a trading or services business selling inside Oman.
The registration path
This is the mainland route, and the days below are typical rather than promised — every step belongs to an authority that decides its own timing. A free zone entity replaces steps two and three with the zone authority’s own approval, and we say which at the consultation.
Three candidate trade names filed with the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion, in Arabic and English. Rejections are common and cheap to avoid — the rules on descriptive words, and on names implying a government connection, catch most first attempts.
Your activity mapped to the ISIC4 codes Oman registers against. This is the step that decides whether 100% foreign ownership applies to you, and whether any sector approval is needed.
The company’s founding document — shareholders, shares, management, signing authority — drafted in Arabic and signed by all shareholders or their attorney.
Filed on the government’s own portal, which issues the commercial registration (CR) number. That number is the company.
Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry membership at the grade your activity and capital require. Without it the CR cannot be used for most transactions.
Tax registration with the Tax Authority, then the corporate account. Banks run their own compliance and decide their own cases, which makes this the step with the least predictable timeline — we prepare the pack that shortens it.
The investor residence card for shareholders, and the labour clearances if you intend to employ. Both sit on top of a live CR, which is why they come last.
The other real decision
Not a matter of price. It is a question of who your customers are, and getting it wrong is expensive to undo.
What you get
Government and authority charges are set by the authorities and paid to them. Our fee is for the work below, quoted separately and in writing before anything is filed.
Three name candidates filed, and your activity mapped to the codes that decide ownership and approvals.
Drafted in Arabic, with shares and signing authority set the way you actually intend to run it.
Through Invest Easy, tracked to the CR number, with every rejection answered rather than the file restarted.
Registration at the correct grade, which is a common and avoidable source of delay.
The compliance pack a corporate account needs, and an introduction. The bank decides, as banks do.
The shareholder residence card, and the labour file if you intend to hire.
Before you enquire
For most activities, yes. The Foreign Capital Investment Law opened the great majority of commercial activities to full foreign ownership and removed the old requirement for an Omani partner. There is a restricted list of activities where it does not apply, and a handful of sectors carry their own approvals. Which side of that line your activity sits on is settled at step two, and it is the first thing we check.
For most activities there is no statutory minimum to register an LLC or an SPC. Certain sectors set their own capital requirements, and a bank or a tender may expect to see more than the legal floor. We confirm the figure for your activity before you commit to anything.
Not for the whole process. Much of the filing is done on the Invest Easy portal, and a properly drafted power of attorney lets us sign and file on your behalf. Opening the bank account is the step most likely to require you in person, because each bank sets its own policy on that.
Two separate numbers, and we keep them separate. Government and authority charges are set by the ministry, the chamber and — for a free zone — the zone authority, and are paid to them. Our fee is for the consultancy and document preparation described above. You get both, itemised, in writing before any work begins. We do not publish a figure here because the activity, the structure and the chamber grade all move it.
With complete documents in hand and no sector approval required, five to ten working days to the CR number is typical for an LLC or an SPC. A branch takes longer, because the parent company’s documents must be attested and legalised first. The bank account and the investor visa sit after the CR and run on their own timelines. These are typical durations from our own files, not commitments — each authority decides its own timing.
No, and no consultant honestly can. Commercial registrations, licences and visas are issued solely by the relevant Omani authorities, which decide every application on its own merits. What we can do is prepare the file so it is decided on its merits rather than returned on a formality, and answer a rejection rather than start again from the beginning.
Go Freelance is an independent consultancy operated by Trivup Documents Clearing Services, a licensed Dubai documents-clearing company. We are not a government department, and we are not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by the Omani Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion, the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry, or any other Omani authority.
Commercial registrations, licences and visas are issued solely by the relevant Omani authorities, which decide every application on its own merits. We advise on and prepare applications and lodge them through official channels; we cannot and do not guarantee any outcome, and nothing on this page is legal or tax advice.
You may register a company yourself, directly, on the Sultanate’s own Invest Easy portal at business.gov.om, for the official charges alone and without paying any service fee. Our fee covers consultancy and document preparation only, is confirmed to you in writing before any work begins, and is separate from those charges.
One line about what the company will do and where you are based is enough to get back a real answer: the structure, the approvals it needs, and the cost in writing.