You have decided to move to Dubai. What you have not decided is who owns the visa, the company, the tax residency, the bank account and the family paperwork, or the order they happen in. Consultycs runs the whole relocation as one engagement, with one advisory consultant and one operations consultant on your file from the first call to the day your bank account opens.
What a Dubai relocation service actually includes
A Dubai relocation service run by Consultycs packages your residence visa, company formation, tax residency, corporate bank account and Emirates ID into one managed engagement. One owner holds the sequence. You get a single point of contact instead of five vendors who each blame the others.
Every relocation is a relocation package, not a single filing. The company gives you the licence that supports your residence visa. Your visa gives you the Emirates ID. That Emirates ID and the company file give you a real shot at a corporate bank account. Your tax residency depends on how you handle your exit at home and your day count here. Consultycs owns all five and the order they run in.
You’ve decided to move – Now you’re running five projects at once
The decision was the easy part. Now you have five browser tabs open. A visa page. A free-zone comparison. A thread arguing about whether you still owe tax at home. A bank-account horror story. A schools list. None of them tell you how the five connect, or which one has to happen first.
So you start calling vendors. The setup agent knows licences and shrugs at banking. Your bank tells you to talk to your PRO. The tax question gets a polite “speak to an accountant.” Everyone owns one piece, nobody owns the move, and the delays are always someone else’s fault.
Lifestyle questions like cost of living, schools and neighbourhoods sit in our full guide to moving to Dubai. This page is about who runs the structuring.
Who this is for and who it isn’t
Consultycs relocation works for a specific person. It is built for founders and business owners moving with a company or capital behind them, and for high-net-worth individuals establishing UAE residency around real substance. If you are investing in Dubai and want the residency, the structure and the banking handled together, you are the reader this page was written for.
The move runs the same shape across origin markets, with a different tax-exit test at home. If you’re relocating from the UK or if you’re relocating from India, two of the largest markets we work with, the sequence is the one you will read below.
It works less well for four people, and we would rather say so now than three weeks into a file.
It does not fit a job-seeker. A UAE employer sponsors that visa, and you do not need a company or a structuring partner to get it.
The cheapest-licence shopper is a poor fit too. Consultycs does not sell a fixed package, and the lowest-cost licence is often the one that fails at the bank.
Anyone who wants a UAE tax result while staying tax-resident at home should stop here. A residence visa does not deliver that by itself, and pretending otherwise builds a problem you inherit later.
A founder who cannot yet meet the residency day count is not ready. Come back when you can, and the move is clean.
The five parts of your Dubai move and where each one is handled
Your move has five moving parts, and each one has a home. The residence visa, the company formation, the tax residency exit and entry, the corporate bank account, and Emirates ID with family sponsorship. Consultycs runs all five; the deep detail on each lives on a dedicated guide.
| Part of your move | What it does for you | Where the depth lives |
|---|---|---|
| Company formation | Gives you the licence that supports the visa | Handled by Consultycs; jurisdiction guides |
| Residence visa | Your legal right to live in the UAE | Handled by Consultycs |
| Tax residency | Decides whether you leave your home tax net | The tax residency guide |
| Corporate bank account | Where your money actually lands | The banking guide |
| Emirates ID and family | Your ID, plus visas for spouse and children | Handled by Consultycs |
Two things sit next to your move without being part of the personal package. Moving your existing company to Dubai, rather than forming a fresh one, is a separate decision with its own tax and redomiciliation questions, and it is covered on its own page. The Golden Visa route is a longer-residency option with its own eligibility, and it too is handled separately. Consultycs points you to the right one; this page does not run the eligibility for either.
What Consultycs manages for you, end to end
Consultycs manages the full lifecycle, not the setup and then goodbye. One engagement covers the initial consultation, the company licensing, the residence and family visas, the corporate bank account introduction, the accounting and tax registration, and the ongoing compliance after you land. The relocation package is the whole arc, not the first filing.
On a single file, that means:
- The consultation that maps your route before anything is filed
- The company licence in the jurisdiction that fits your model, from DMCC, IFZA, RAKEZ or mainland
- Your residence visa and the visas for your spouse and children, through GDRFA and ICP
- Emirates ID enrolment and the medical
- Employee visas through MoHRE if you are hiring
- The corporate bank account introduction, with your file built for the bank’s compliance review
- Corporate tax and VAT registration where they apply
- The accounting and the ongoing compliance calendar that keeps the structure clean
What relocating to Dubai costs and what moves the number
Relocating to Dubai costs money in three separate buckets, and no honest firm can hand you one number before it sees your case. Government fees are set by the authority. Consultycs advisory fees cover the structuring and the management. Pass-through third-party costs cover medicals, Emirates ID, attestation and translation.
| Cost bucket | What it covers | Who sets it |
|---|---|---|
| Government fees | Licence, visa, Emirates ID and registration charges | The relevant authority |
| Consultycs advisory | The structuring, the management and the file work | Consultycs, quoted per case |
| Pass-through costs | Medicals, attestation, translation, third-party fees | The third-party provider |
Four things move your total. The jurisdiction you pick, because a free zone and the mainland price differently. The number of visas, because your spouse and each child add cost. Whether your family relocates now or later. And your banking profile, because a higher-risk file takes more work to get over the compliance line.
What Consultycs will not do is quote you a package price on a landing page. The firm does not sell a fixed all-in number, because the number that fits a single founder forming one free-zone company is the wrong number for a family of four carrying an existing offshore structure. You get a transparent breakdown for your case before you commit to anything. Most firms in this space will not put that structure in writing. Consultycs does.
The sequence and why the bank account sets the pace
The sequence is fixed, and the bank account is the part that decides your timeline. Your company licence comes first. Your residence visa and Emirates ID follow once the licence is issued. The corporate bank account comes last, and it moves at the speed of the bank’s compliance review, not yours.
The licence and the visa are the predictable parts. GDRFA and ICP process residence visas and Emirates ID enrolment on known timelines, and Consultycs handles the medical and the paperwork inside them.
Opening a corporate bank account in the UAE is the part that stalls. The bank’s compliance team, not the relationship manager who smiles at you in the branch, decides whether your account opens. They review your source of funds, your ownership, and whether there is real substance behind the company. A thin file gets a quiet rejection with no reason attached. Consultycs builds your structure and your file with the bank’s checklist in mind from the first day, which is what actually opens accounts.
Your tax position runs alongside the sequence, not after it. A residence visa is not the same as leaving your home country’s tax net; your day count and your home country’s residency test decide that. Getting your UAE Tax Residency Certificate, which the Federal Tax Authority issues, is a deliberate step handled with your home-side exit, not an automatic result of holding a visa. The detail of your home country’s test sits on the origin guide for your market.
How Consultycs runs your relocation
By now you can see the problem with running this yourself. Five parts, four vendors, and no single person who can tell you what is blocking what. That gap is exactly what Consultycs is built to close.
You get two named people on your file, not a ticket in a queue. One consultant from advisory owns the structure: the jurisdiction, the visa route, the tax position, the shape of the whole thing. One consultant from operations owns the execution: the filings, the visa appointments, the bank introduction, the follow-ups. They do not hand you off to a call centre once the licence prints. They stay on the file from the first consultation to the day your account opens and past it, into accounting and the annual compliance work.
That is what end-to-end means in practice. Interest, consultation, licensing, visas, banking, accounting, ongoing compliance, one partner across all of it. If you started your move somewhere else and it is now a tangle of the wrong licence and a stalled bank application, Consultycs rebuilds broken structures rather than telling you to start over.
The result is that you stop being the project manager of your own relocation. You brief one team once, and they run it. When you are ready to start, book a relocation consultation and one call maps the whole route for your case.
Why founders trust Consultycs with the whole move
Proof in this category is usually a wall of logos and a five-star average with no reviews behind it. Consultycs would rather show you the model than a badge.
The dual-consultant structure means the person who designed your setup is still reachable when the bank asks a question in week six. Because the scope runs end to end, one firm carries the consequences of its own advice instead of blaming an accountant it never spoke to. Corrective-structuring work is a regular part of the practice, so the firm sees what goes wrong often enough to build your file so it does not. And the office is a real one in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, not a mailbox and a messaging number.
Named case studies and client outcomes are published separately as they clear consent.
The three reasons founders hesitate, answered
Three worries stop founders from booking, and each deserves a straight answer.
The first is cost, and the fear of overpaying. The honest position is that the cheapest setup is rarely the one that works. A bargain licence that cannot open a bank account or support your tax position costs you far more in the rebuild than it saved at the counter. Consultycs prices the structure that fits your model, and tells you where you can spend less without breaking the outcome.
Being passed around is the second worry. You have been warned by someone whose relocation turned into six months of chasing agents who did not talk to each other. The two-consultant model exists precisely to kill that. One advisory owner, one operations owner, both on your file, both reachable.
Timeline slippage is the third. Everyone in this market has heard “two weeks” and waited three months, usually because the bank stage was never explained. Consultycs commits to accurate timelines rather than flattering ones. You are told at the start where the real waits are, the banking stage above all, so the schedule you plan around is the true one, not the one that wins the sale.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a Dubai relocation service actually include?
A managed relocation packages your residence visa, company formation, tax-residency exit and entry, corporate bank account and Emirates ID into one engagement with a single owner. You get a sequence and one point of contact, instead of coordinating five separate vendors who each handle one piece and blame the others for delays.
Can I stop paying tax at home just by getting a Dubai visa?
No. A UAE residence visa does not remove you from your home country’s tax net on its own. Your day count and the ties you keep decide that, under your home country’s residency test. Tax residency has to be handled deliberately, which is why relocation and tax-exit planning belong in the same engagement.
Who can relocate to Dubai this way?
Founders and business owners relocating with a company or capital, and high-net-worth individuals establishing UAE residency. It suits you if you can meet the residency day count and want the move structured properly. It suits you less if you are job-hunting, staying tax-resident at home, or chasing the cheapest possible licence.
How long does relocating to Dubai take?
The sequence runs licence, then residence visa and Emirates ID, then the corporate bank account. The licence and visa are the quick parts. The account sets the pace, because the bank’s compliance team reviews source of funds and substance before it opens. You get a realistic timeline for your case rather than a headline number.
Why is the bank account the hardest part?
UAE banks run a full compliance review on every business account, and the compliance team, not the relationship manager, decides. They assess source of funds, ownership, and whether there is real substance behind the company. A clean, well-prepared file is what opens the account, so the structure is built with the bank’s requirements in mind from the start.
Do I need a company to relocate, or just a visa?
It depends on your route. Many founders relocate through a UAE company that supports their residence visa, banking and tax position. Others qualify through investor or Golden Visa routes. The right structure follows your business model and long-term plan, not a default package. Consultycs maps the route to your situation before anything is filed.
Will I get passed between different agents?
No. You get a dedicated consultant from advisory and a dedicated consultant from operations, and Consultycs stays with you across licensing, visas, banking, accounting and ongoing compliance. It is one relationship across the whole lifecycle, not a handoff into a queue once the licence is issued.
What does relocating to Dubai cost?
Cost comes in three parts: government fees set by the authority, Consultycs advisory fees, and pass-through third-party costs such as medicals, Emirates ID, attestation and translation. What moves your number is jurisdiction, how many visas you need, whether family relocates with you, and your banking profile. You get your case quoted transparently before you commit.
Start your Dubai relocation with one consultation
You have seen the whole shape of the move: the five parts, the sequence, the cost structure, and the one team that runs it. The next step is a single conversation. Bring your business, your family situation and your timeline, and one call maps the route, the jurisdiction and the order of play for your case. Start your relocation with one consultation, and stop stitching five vendors together yourself.
Book your relocation consultation.
Consultycs is a business setup and regulatory advisory firm headquartered in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai. It advises founders, investors, and corporates on UAE company formation, corporate tax, VAT, accounting, visas, corporate banking, and ongoing compliance. Rather than selling fixed packages, Consultycs designs each structure around the client’s business model and long-term tax position.
