🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Overview

AiPrise verifies businesses in the United Arab Emirates against the National Economic Register. A business verification returns the trade licence holder's company profile.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, legal form, licence status, registration date, address
Directors and legal representatives	No
Shareholders	No
Ultimate beneficial owners	No

Document	Returned
Register documents	No

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification, direct licence lookup	1 second	15 seconds
Business verification, background licence search	46 seconds	4 minutes

Depending on your workflow, the licence is looked up directly or searched in the background. About 1 in 3 verifications use the background search. These are typical times from production, not a service-level commitment: set timeouts well above them, or use callbacks.

Company types

These legal forms came back in production. Each returns the licence profile.

Company type	Legal forms	Covered	What to expect
Limited liability company	`Limited Liability Company`	Yes	Profile
Sole proprietorship	`Sole Proprietorship`	Yes	Profile
Establishment	`Establishment`	Yes	Profile
Free zone company	`Free Zone Company`	Yes	Profile
Free zone establishment	`Free Zone Establishment`	Yes	Profile
Civil company	`Civil Company`	Yes	Profile
Branch of a foreign company	`Branch of Foreign Company`	Yes	Profile
Single person company	`Single Person Company`	Yes	Profile

Sources

Register	What it gives
National Economic Register	Trade licence profile

Identifiers

Send the trade licence number as business_entity_id, with country_code set to AE.

Identifier	Format	Example
Trade licence number	As printed on the licence: usually 5 to 7 digits, some with a prefix	`1234567` or `CN-1234567`

You can also search by legal name.

Statuses and legal forms

Every result carries the register's own status in registration_info.status and an AiPrise status in registration_info.normalised_status. The normalised status is one of Active, Suspended, Dormant, Dissolved / Struck Off, In Liquidation / Insolvency or Unknown.

Register status	Normalised status
Valid	Active
Expired	Suspended
Cancelled	Dissolved / Struck Off
Terminated	Dissolved / Struck Off
Initial approval, Under admin cancellation, Court case	Unknown
No status in the register data	Unknown

Legal forms come back in entity_type in English, for example Limited Liability Company and Free Zone Company.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
Status often empty	About half of the licences come back without a status, so `normalised_status` is `Unknown`. Check the licence expiry date instead.
Expired licences	`Expired` maps to `Suspended`, not `Dissolved / Struck Off`.
Licence numbers are not unique	The same licence number can belong to more than one business. Send the legal name too, so the right licence is matched.
Background search takes minutes	When the licence is searched in the background, the result arrives after about a minute, and up to 4 minutes for 9 in 10. Use callbacks.

Limits

Directors, shareholders and UBOs are not returned.
Licence documents are not available from the register.