Investor, work, and family visas — handled.
Once your CR is issued, you'll want to be on Omani soil — and so will your family and first hires. Marhaba manages the full visa stack: investor residency, employee work permits, family sponsorship, resident cards, and annual renewals. Filings are run by our licensed PRO partners with Royal Oman Police; you do one trip to Muscat for biometrics, we handle everything else.
Four visa types, one accountable partner.
Most foreign founders need more than just their own visa. A typical first-year visa plan covers the principal investor, a spouse and one or two children, and the first one or two key hires. Marhaba sequences these properly so dependents and employees can be filed as soon as the principal is approved — saving weeks compared to filing them separately later.
Investor Visa
For shareholders of an Omani LLC, SPC, branch, or free zone entity. Confers long-term residency and the right to live, work, and sponsor family in Oman.
Employee Work Visa
For each foreign hire your Omani company sponsors. Includes labour clearance from the Ministry of Labour and a work permit tied to your CR.
Dependent / Family Visa
For your spouse and dependent children (typically unmarried, under 21). Parents can be sponsored subject to additional documentation and income thresholds.
Annual Renewal
Standard 1- or 2-year visas renew indefinitely while your shareholding and CR remain active. Marhaba runs the renewal cycle so you never lapse.
Long-term residency: Oman has also introduced a long-term residency programme for qualifying investors — typically 5- or 10-year terms based on investment level, activity category, and capital commitment. It's a meaningful upgrade over the standard 1–2 year cycle for founders planning to stay in Oman long-term. We confirm eligibility in the discovery call.
Six steps from CR to resident card.
We start the investor visa the day after your CR is issued. The principal investor visa is the gating step — once it's approved, family and employee visas can be filed in parallel rather than sequentially, which compresses the overall timeline significantly.
CR issued, file pre-approval
Once your commercial registration is issued and your shareholding is recorded, we submit the investor visa pre-approval through Royal Oman Police. Pre-approval is the green light from ROP to proceed with the full visa application.
Pre-approval granted
You receive your entry permit. This is the document you'll need to fly to Oman for biometrics. At this point we also start preparing family or employee visa files so they can move in parallel after your principal visa is issued.
Arrive in Oman, biometrics
Plan for 2–3 days in Muscat. You'll do fingerprints and a photo at ROP, a brief medical screening (blood test, chest X-ray) at an approved clinic, and submit any final documents. We coordinate every appointment so it's done in a single trip.
Visa stamped, resident ID issued
Investor visa stamped in your passport. National ID and resident card issued. Tax registration linked. You are now an Omani resident, with the right to live, work, sponsor family, open a personal bank account, and apply for a Driving Licence.
Family & employee visas filed in parallel
Spouse, children, and any key hires can now be filed under your sponsorship (family) or your company's sponsorship (employees). These run on roughly the same biometric cycle but compress because pre-approvals overlap. Each dependent or employee will need one trip to Muscat.
Renewals managed
Marhaba's PRO retainer (or one-off renewal service) handles the annual renewal cycle so you never lapse. Visa lapses can have serious downstream consequences — frozen bank accounts, blocked travel, lost residency status — and they are entirely avoidable with a calendar.
Documents we'll ask for, checklist by visa type.
Marhaba sends a precise checklist after your discovery call, tailored to your structure and family situation. As a guide, here's what's typically required.
Investor & Employee visas
- Passport copy (6+ months validity)
- Passport-style colour photo
- Commercial Registration certificate (we hold it)
- Shareholding evidence (MoA / cap table)
- For employees: signed employment contract
- For employees: educational certificates (if applicable)
- Police clearance from home country (some categories)
- Medical fitness certificate (issued in Oman)
Family / Dependent visas
- Sponsor's investor visa (approved first)
- Dependent's passport copy (6+ months validity)
- Marriage certificate (apostilled, translated)
- Birth certificates for children (apostilled, translated)
- Passport-style photos for each dependent
- Proof of accommodation in Oman (tenancy contract)
- Medical fitness for each dependent (issued in Oman)
- For sponsored parents: additional financial proof
Visa pricing is per person, per visa. Government fees included.
Every visa engagement includes the Royal Oman Police filing fees, medical screening costs, and resident card issuance. There is no hidden government-fees surcharge after the work begins.
Visa filings are managed through Marhaba's licensed PRO partners with Royal Oman Police. Marhaba Business Solutions LLC is not a licensed visa agent; the licensed agent retains compliance responsibility for each filing. Government fees and medical costs are included in the above pricing; courier and translation costs for specific documents may apply at cost.
Honest answers, no sales spin.
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Thirty minutes to map out your visa plan.
No obligation, no pitch. We'll understand your family situation, hiring plans, and timing — and send you a fixed quote for the full visa stack within 24 hours.