Your guide to government paperwork and setting up a business in the Sultanate of Oman
On 11 October 2026 Oman's Ministry of Labour unveiled a new regulation for recruiting non-Omani workers: unified contracts, a 45-day recruitment deadline and a two-year guarantee for domestic workers. What was announced, when it takes effect, and what an employment contract must contain and how it is registered under the rules already in force.
Oman's National Subsidy System lowers the electricity bill of eligible Omani households (دعم الكهرباء). The income and household-size rules, what counts as income, how to register, and why the subsidy stops if you don't re-confirm it every six months.
What people in Oman call «منفعة الطالب» is the monthly allowance for internal-scholarship students, now run by the Social Protection Fund: who has to register, the published eligibility figures, what to have ready, and fixes for the problems people bring us most.
The documents a foreign investor needs to set up a company in Oman — as an individual or as a parent company — why attestation and translation are the number-one cause of delay, and what banks expect in practice.
The path to a foreign-owned company in the Sultanate of Oman: what changed with Royal Decree 50/2019, the list of 123 activities reserved for Omanis, and the steps in the order the authorities take them.