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Starting a companyUpdated 07.09.2026

Can a foreign company open a branch in Uzbekistan under this procedure?

Short answer

No. The branch regulation excludes foreign commercial organisations — a foreign branch runs on a different regime.

ExcludedThe regulation does not extend to the branches and representative offices of foreign commercial organisations — nor to commercial banks, credit bureaux or non-commercial organisations (Branch Regulation, Para. 1 — lex.uz ↗)
CoversIt covers the branches of Uzbek business entities — recorded at a Public Services Centre in two working hours, free (Branch Regulation, Paras. 2, 8, 10 — lex.uz ↗)
On the formA branch of an enterprise with foreign investment having the rights of a legal entity is its own box — on the ordinary registration application, not the branch notification (Registration Regulation, Para. 9 — lex.uz ↗)
The alternativeA subsidiary is registered like any other company — in real time, and not more than thirty minutes (Registration Regulation, Para. 16 — lex.uz ↗)
What the law provides

The administrative regulation that makes recording a branch a two-hour, no-fee formality is written for the branches of Uzbek business entities, and its opening paragraph says that its requirements do not extend to the branches and representative offices of foreign commercial organisations — alongside commercial banks, credit bureaux and non-governmental non-commercial organisations. A foreign company reading about a ten-day notification is reading about a different case than its own. (Branch Regulation, Para. 1 — lex.uz ↗)

What the registration act does offer a foreign company is the ordinary route: a subsidiary, registered like any other legal entity in real time and not more than thirty minutes, or — as its own box on the application form — a branch of an enterprise with foreign investment that itself has the rights of a legal entity. The accreditation regime for a foreign company’s own representative office sits outside this act entirely, and nothing here should be read across to it. (Registration Regulation, Paras. 9, 16 — lex.uz ↗)

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