DLD 2-Year Investor Residence: Sole Owner Rules
DLD Taskeen eService: sole owners apply regardless of property value; joint owners need a share ≥ AED 400,000 — plus the printed 2-year fee card.
The Dubai Land Department (DLD — دائرة الأراضي والأملاك) publishes a live eService card for the Investor Residence Application (Taskeen). Taskeen is DLD’s investor-residence desk path: it links a Dubai property title to a residency file, with the option to sponsor a spouse and children when the printed criteria are met. For desks that already briefed the 10-year Golden Visa (AED 2 million property path), this card is the separate two-year investor residence lane — and the eligibility lines on the live page are worth reading carefully. Orientation only — not immigration advice.
Primary: DLD — Investor Residence Application (Taskeen). This morning’s paper is fee-and-eligibility literacy for the two-year path, not a rewrite of the 25 September Golden Visa family-fee card and not the 21 September mortgaged Golden Visa bank-letter guide.
What DLD prints for sole owners
Under Eligibility Criteria, the live page states that for Individual Ownership, the property owner is allowed to apply for the issuance of a license and residency visa regardless of the property value. In plain English: the two-year investor residence route on this DLD card does not print an AED 750,000 (or any other) minimum purchase price for a sole owner. Always re-open the live eService before you brief a client — portals change.
What DLD prints for joint owners
For Joint Ownership, the same page states that a co-owner may apply provided that their share value is not less than AED 400,000. That is a share floor per applicant, not a “pool anything” rule. Two names on one title each still need to clear the printed share line if both want the residence file.
The fee lines on the same card
DLD prints the service fees on the same page. The Investor visa 2 years line is AED 10,212.50. Family residency permit for 2 years is listed separately (wife AED 7,382.25; daughter over 18 AED 7,182.25; children under 18 AED 6,482.25; son over 18 for one year only AED 7,182.25; husband for two years AED 7,382.25). Parents residence permit for 1 year is listed at AED 8,882.25, with sponsorship file opening fees AED 318.75. Service time is printed as 7–10 business days. These are DLD card figures — not a Kyora quote, and not the Golden Visa investor-card total from 25 September.
Define the words clients mix up
Taskeen here is DLD’s investor-residence application service linked to Dubai property ownership. A title deed is the ownership record DLD issues for a completed property. The two-year investor residence is the permit length printed on this eService (“Two years residency permit and the sponsor is the owner”). The Golden Visa is the longer federal residence path commonly briefed at the AED 2 million property threshold — a different product, different fee card, different documents. Cube / Al Manara Center is the DLD service channel named on the page for in-person filing (with medical examination at the centre and the residence permit emailed). Kyora orients; immigration counsel confirms the live file.
What agents should put in the client brief
Open with one calm primary sentence: DLD’s Investor Residence (Taskeen) eService prints a two-year investor residence path where sole owners may apply regardless of property value; joint owners need a share of at least AED 400,000; the investor visa 2-year fee line is AED 10,212.50; family and parents lines are listed separately; this is not the 10-year Golden Visa AED 2 million card.
- Printed now on the DLD card — sole owner: regardless of property value; joint owner: share ≥ AED 400,000; investor visa 2 years AED 10,212.50; family/parents fee lines; 7–10 business days; Al Manara (Cube–Taskeen) channel hours.
- Still to confirm on the day — passport, electronic title deed, photo, Emirates ID if available, Good Conduct Certificate addressed to DLD, medical exam at the centre, and any family attestation documents listed for spouse, children or parents.
- Not this card — a claim that every property buyer automatically receives a Golden Visa; inventing a new AED minimum for sole owners against the live page; mixing Taskeen two-year fees with the Golden Visa investor-card total.
How this sits next to recent Kyora papers
The 25 September paper was Golden Visa family fees on the DLD investor card (10-year path). The 21 September paper was the mortgaged property bank letter for Golden Visa. The 19 August paper explained what Taskeen is versus Golden Visa branding. Today is the two-year investor residence eligibility and fee literacy card — sole owner versus joint share, with the numbers DLD prints live.
Checks before you rewrite a listing pack
Cite the live DLD Investor Residence eService before you reuse the sole-owner / AED 400,000 joint lines. Keep the two-year Taskeen path separate from the Golden Visa AED 2 million path. Do not invent fee totals. Send eligibility edge cases to immigration counsel — Kyora orients; Lex owns legal accuracy.
Orientation only — not personalised immigration, tax, investment or legal advice. Always verify the live DLD / GDRFA / ICP wording and the client’s actual title before a decision.
