A tenant who is ready to pay the rent or renew the contract, and whose landlord refuses to take the money, the cheques or the keys, is left holding an obligation with no way to discharge it. The offer and deposit request is the formal route out of that position.
What Is an Offer and Deposit Request?
It is a request registered before the RDC urgent-matters judge for an order offering the rental value, or the keys, in the landlord’s favour — without prejudice to the tenancy rights of either side. The RDC gives one working day as the registration time, and what is issued is the judge’s decision.
Documents Required to Register the Request
- The offer and deposit statement of claim
- Emirates ID of the applicant; for a company, the Emirates ID of the manager named on the trade licence plus the most recent copy of the licence
- The last signed lease and a new lease on the same terms and conditions; confirm the number of copies required by the current RDC filing channel
- A copy of the cheques being deposited for the new contract
- A copy of the correspondence between the two parties, if any
Rent Already Covered by Cheques Must Be Converted to Cash
Where the deposit covers a period that was already deposited by cheques, the RDC requires those earlier cheques to be converted into cash amounts. Every submitted document must also be in Arabic or legally translated into Arabic, and all documents are archived on the RDC system under its own sections — no paper document is received. We handle the file in the required form and arrange the legal translation where a document is in another language.
What We Review Before Filing
- The current contract and its Ejari registration
- The correspondence between landlord and tenant
- Any notice of a rent increase or a change to the contract terms
- The rental value being demanded
- Any earlier notices served between the parties
- Any offer the tenant has already made to the landlord
- The tenant’s position on rent already paid
After the Judge’s Decision
The decision is received through the RDC system. Keep the offer and deposit receipt: the RDC lists it among the documents required later when an execution file is opened on a contract-renewal judgment. We follow the request through to the decision and hand over the file complete.
Filing Without an Emirates ID
The RDC lists the Emirates ID as the applicant’s identity document for this service. A tenant holding only a passport cannot register the request in their own name; it is filed through a notarized POA to someone who holds an Emirates ID, registered on the file at the RDC. We draft the POA and its powers, prepare the documents and file the request.
Frequently Asked Questions
When the tenant is ready to pay the rent or to renew on the same terms and the landlord will not receive the money, the cheques or the keys. The request puts the rental value or the keys before the RDC urgent-matters judge, without prejudice to the tenancy rights of either side.
Yes. The RDC describes the service as an order offering the rental value or the keys in the landlord’s favour, so a tenant who cannot hand back the keys at the end of the relationship has the same route available.
The statement of claim, the applicant’s Emirates ID (or, for a company, the licence manager’s Emirates ID with the latest trade licence), the last signed lease and a new lease on the same terms and conditions. Check the current RDC service instructions for the number of copies required by the filing channel, together with a copy of the cheques being deposited and any correspondence between the parties, if available.
Yes, through a notarized POA registered on the file at the RDC. This is the route where the tenant holds only a passport, since the RDC lists the Emirates ID as the applicant’s identity document. We draft the POA and its powers, prepare the documents and follow the request to the decision.
Start Your File
Send the documents you have and we review the file.