As accessed on 29 September 2026, DLD's Title Deed Modification route names five ownership-data fields it can change, including the owner's name, but DLD's published pages do not state a general acceptance rule for transliteration, middle names, name order or spacing. The official answer is therefore record-specific: the title-deed route changes ownership data and issues an electronic title deed, while the person/entity route updates the owner's file in DLD's system, both pages accessed 29 September 2026.

The official answer is record-specific

The route depends on which DLD record contains the field that needs attention. Title Deed Modification is the published route for ownership data on the deed. Amendment of details of a person / entity is the published route for an owner's file in DLD's system. Property Sale Registration is the later transaction route that reads identity information and issues the buyer's electronic title deed.

Every statement in this table comes from the named DLD service page, each accessed 29 September 2026. “Title record”, “system file”, “identity data” and “later evidence” are editorial classifications used to stop one route's fields from being attributed to another route.

This is a narrow companion to the full Dubai purchase path. The broader guide covers the purchase sequence. This worksheet deals only with the identity fields that can sit inside that sequence.

Use the mismatch worksheet before a transfer appointment

The worksheet preserves the exact text from each record before anyone classifies the difference. It does not decide whether DLD will accept a variation, because the official pages used here do not publish that decision rule.

Those first five rows mirror the fields named on DLD's Title Deed Modification page. The last row is an editorial comparison field, not a DLD-returned field. DLD's page does not describe a tolerance for script, spacing or punctuation (DLD, accessed 29 September 2026).

The Oqood versus title-deed guide explains why an off-plan registration and a completed-property title deed are different records. This worksheet does not transfer a title-deed correction route to an Oqood record unless an official channel identifies it as the applicable route.

Each document has a different role

The DLD pages name documents by route. They do not combine them into one universal proof pack.

• Title deed: On the modification route, this is the ownership record being reissued after the approved data change. The named output is an Electronic Title Deed (DLD, accessed 29 September 2026).
• DLD person record: The person/entity amendment page says the owner's details are updated in the Department's system so procedures can be completed based on that update. The page does not list a separate issued document (DLD, accessed 29 September 2026).
• Passport: Title Deed Modification lists copies of valid passports for non-resident owners. The person/entity route lists a passport for non-residents. Property Sale Registration lists a valid passport for non-resident foreigners (DLD Title Deed Modification; DLD person/entity amendment; DLD sale registration, all accessed 29 September 2026).
• Emirates ID: The title-deed route lists a copy of the owner's Emirates ID. The person/entity route lists the owners' UAE ID, and the sale route describes Emirates ID as identity verification for seller and buyer (DLD; DLD; DLD, all accessed 29 September 2026).
• Power of Attorney: The title-deed route expressly lists a legal Power of Attorney if the owner is not attending in person. Its page does not state overseas execution, attestation, language or translation conditions (DLD, accessed 29 September 2026).
• Translation: None of the three current service pages used here states a general translation requirement for a foreign passport, national identity document or name-change evidence. Translation is therefore an unresolved route question, not a default document invented for this worksheet (DLD Title Deed Modification; DLD person/entity amendment; DLD sale registration, all accessed 29 September 2026).

The key distinction is between a returned field and an editorial classification. DLD returns or names fields such as name, nationality and passport number. This article groups the records as identity, authority and output only to make the workflow readable.

Ask the correction questions in route order

The useful pre-transfer questions identify the record, the source document and the completion evidence. They do not ask a trustee to endorse a guessed tolerance.

1. Which DLD record contains the differing field?

   Is the difference visible on the current electronic title deed, in the owner's DLD system file, or in both? The answer determines whether the published title-deed route, the person/entity route, or two separate updates are relevant. The route pages do not say that changing one automatically changes the other (DLD Title Deed Modification; DLD person/entity amendment, both accessed 29 September 2026).

2. Which identity document does this route expressly name?

   For a non-resident individual, both correction pages name a passport. The sale-registration page also names a valid passport for a non-resident foreigner. Where Emirates ID applies, keep its field values separate rather than assuming one system record mirrors another (DLD Title Deed Modification; DLD person/entity amendment; DLD sale registration, all accessed 29 September 2026).

3. Is the specific variation covered by a published matching rule?

   Ask about the exact difference: transliteration, an added or missing middle name, name order, spacing, punctuation or another field. The current pages used here do not publish a tolerance or a character-by-character test, so this article does not supply one (DLD Title Deed Modification; DLD person/entity amendment; DLD sale registration, all accessed 29 September 2026).

4. If someone acts for the owner, what authority evidence is current?

   The title-deed route states “legal Power of Attorney” when the owner does not attend in person. The page does not publish the overseas signing, attestation, language or translation conditions needed for a particular document, so those points remain file-specific questions.

5. What will show that the correction is complete?

   For Title Deed Modification, DLD names an Electronic Title Deed. For the person/entity route, DLD describes an updated system file but does not list a separate issued document. Ask what transaction reference or system confirmation can be retained for the later sale file (DLD Title Deed Modification; DLD person/entity amendment, both accessed 29 September 2026).

These questions preserve the official unknown. A trustee or DLD channel can answer for the actual record and current document set; the public pages do not justify a broader acceptance claim.

Costs, times and outputs remain route-specific

The Title Deed Modification page lists AED 250 for title-deed certificate issuance, AED 10 as a knowledge fee and AED 10 as an innovation fee. The calculated total is AED 270. DLD states a 25-minute service time and names the Electronic Title Deed as the output (DLD, accessed 29 September 2026).

The person/entity amendment page describes the service as free. It adds that when an amendment is irrelevant to any procedure, a service-partner fee of AED 20 plus VAT applies. DLD states a 20-minute service time. The page's purpose is the updated DLD system file, and it does not list a separate issued document (DLD, accessed 29 September 2026).

The calculation uses only the three fee lines on the title-deed page. The person-route fee condition is kept in DLD's own scope and is not added to the title-deed total.

Source and calculation lock

This worksheet uses three defining DLD pages, all accessed 29 September 2026: Title Deed Modification, Amendment of details of a person / entity and Property Sale Registration.

The source pages return fields, document names, fees, times and outputs. The labels “title record”, “person record”, “identity evidence”, “authority evidence” and “later transfer evidence” are this article's editorial classifications. The AED 270 total and the count of five title-deed fields are calculations reproduced from the saved source audit.

FAQ, checked 29 September 2026

Does DLD publish an exact passport-to-title-deed name-matching rule?+

Not on the three service pages used for this worksheet. They do not state a general tolerance for transliteration, middle names, name order, spaces or punctuation, so the answer for a specific file remains an official route question (DLD Title Deed Modification; DLD person/entity amendment; DLD sale registration, all accessed 29 September 2026).

Which DLD route corrects the name printed on a title deed?+

Title Deed Modification expressly includes name correction among its ownership-data changes and lists an Electronic Title Deed as the issued document (DLD, accessed 29 September 2026).

Does the person/entity amendment route issue a new title deed?+

Its page says it updates the owner's file in DLD's system and does not list an issued document. A title deed is expressly named as the output of the separate Title Deed Modification route (DLD person/entity amendment; DLD Title Deed Modification, both accessed 29 September 2026).

Does DLD say a translated foreign identity document resolves a name difference?+

The three current route pages used here do not state a general translation rule or say that translation alone resolves a mismatch. The applicable DLD or trustee channel must confirm the document requirement for the actual file (DLD Title Deed Modification; DLD person/entity amendment; DLD sale registration, all accessed 29 September 2026).