How to Keep the Dubai REST Co-Occupant List for a Rented Home

The people living in this rented Dubai home are not on a list. The Ejari certificate (Ejari is Dubai's tenancy registration) is still in one name, and that certificate is not a list of the people living here. The file for this unit is the Dubai REST co-occupant list: those people, including family and a domestic helper when they live there. A written sublet consent and a short-stay guest log are other files.

Disclaimer: IziRento is operations software, not legal advice. Local tenancy rules vary; check a qualified adviser for binding decisions.

The Ejari certificate is still one name

Dubai REST is the Dubai Land Department's smart real estate platform. Owners and tenants use it to manage a lease: registration, renewal, and cancellation. Manage Co-occupants, also labelled Manage Occupants Data on the service card, is the screen for the people in the property. The list you keep is the landlord's copy, stored with this unit.

A list that does not name the unit is not this file. The Land Department procedure starts from the property already chosen, for an owner, a real estate company, or the lessee, meaning the tenant. The copy kept with the tenancy names this home and the people living in it.

The Ejari certificate can stay in one name. Campaign FAQ item 6 says no certificates are issued for registering co-occupants, and their names do not appear in the rental contract. The names can be viewed in the Dubai REST app and in Manage Occupants within the contract details. Khaleej Times, published on 25 September 2022 and updated the next day, quoted the Land Department: the registration can be a document of residence, but it cannot replace a tenancy contract for government transactions, and the contract does not need to name everyone.

Gulf News, updated on 29 August 2025, quoted lawyer Vishal Tinani: issuance of Ejari is limited to one tenancy contract per unit for a single tenant or entity, so not all occupants appear on the Ejari. Co-occupants are recorded through the Land Department's registration service.

The service description calls the procedure statistical, related to security and safety standards in residential complexes, and says the data helps civil defence and police in an accident or emergency. The service card lists the time as Immediate. Channels are the Land Department website, through the Ejari system, and the Dubai REST app. The residency line reads Citizens and Residents, and real estate management companies are named as partners. None of that replaces the names stored with this unit.

The pages print no charge for this list

The occupants service card, the steps page, and campaign FAQ item 6 do not print a dirham amount for adding a co-occupant. FAQ item 1 mentions paying the fees only in the steps for registering a new Ejari contract, and it does not print the amount. The PDF Ejari – Manage Co-occupants, labelled 04 April 2022 and 860 KB on its landing page, does not print a fee either. That mention of fees belongs to contract registration, not to these names.

On the steps page, as it stood on 22 October 2026, the number of co-occupants comes first. Emirates ID and date of birth are optional after that number is submitted. Khaleej Times attributes to the Land Department a different set from 25 September 2022: a name, an Emirates ID number, and a passport number if the person has no Emirates ID.

The notification of 23 September 2022, reported by Khaleej Times and by Afridi & Angell in October 2022, went to owners, developers, property management companies, and tenants. It asked for registration within a maximum of two weeks. Afridi & Angell wrote that it was not clear what penalties, if any, applied for missing that timeline. That window was the September 2022 catch-up.

Who lives in this home

The list is the people living in the home. The live steps page says to add all members of the family who are living in that property. Khaleej Times reported the Land Department, on 25 September 2022, as saying that co-occupants staying in a unit for a month or more need to be registered, including the tenant's family members and domestic help. In shared accommodation, the main tenant, the name on the tenancy contract, adds the people staying with them.

Afridi & Angell, describing the circular of 23 September 2022, wrote that it covered anyone residing, or due to reside, for more than one month, including family members and household staff. A domestic helper goes on this list when that person lives in the home. A helper who does not live there stays off it. A short stay stays off it.

The April 2022 PDF speaks of family members living in the property, with an Emirates ID and a date of birth. It does not print a fee. Someone who has left is removed on that screen. The landlord's copy drops that name once the person has moved out.

The count stays with the names

The steps page asks for the number of co-occupants and says that entering personal details remains optional. After the number, the optional detail is an Emirates ID and a date of birth, then Verify. The file you store has the unit, the count, and the names of the people living there.

Afridi & Angell reported Land Department feedback that the person occupying the property registers, and that owners and tenants should still make sure it is done. The copy you keep is the list with this tenancy.

Stop when this unit's tenancy file holds the co-occupant list: the home, and the names of the people living there, including family and a domestic helper when they live there. Leave a registration fee, a fine, and a certificate price unwritten. If the message is a request to let a room, leave it on the written sublet consent. If the message is a short stay, leave it on the guest check-in record. Leave the Ejari registration documents in their own file. IziRento stores the list and does not log into Dubai REST or file it with the Land Department.