diff --git a/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/components/onboarding/OnboardingWizardDialog.tsx b/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/components/onboarding/OnboardingWizardDialog.tsx
index f2c9992e3..55c63ac52 100644
--- a/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/components/onboarding/OnboardingWizardDialog.tsx
+++ b/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/components/onboarding/OnboardingWizardDialog.tsx
@@ -212,23 +212,23 @@ export default function OnboardingWizardDialog({
     onError: (err) => setStartError(extractApiError(err).message),
   });
 
-  // Finalize: upload per-role license files + company documents, then complete.
+  // Finalize: upload per-role license files, then complete.
+  //
+  // Company documents are deliberately NOT uploaded here. The documents step
+  // uploads them via `onUploadDocuments` and then triggers submit in the same
+  // synchronous `nextStep` call (CompanyProfileForm), so the `setDocumentFiles({})`
+  // that clears them has not re-rendered by the time this mutation's closure
+  // runs — reading `documentFiles` here would re-send the exact same files and
+  // create a duplicate row per document. Licenses have no such auto-upload, so
+  // they are uploaded here.
   const finishMutation = useMutation({
     mutationFn: async () => {
-      const companyId = company?.company?.id;
       // Per-role business licenses (file model, resource=company_profiles).
       for (const [profileId, files] of Object.entries(licenseFiles)) {
         if (files.length > 0) {
           await companiesService.uploadProfileLicense(profileId, files);
         }
       }
-      // Nationality-based company documents (resource=companies).
-      const hasDocs = Object.values(documentFiles).some(
-        (f) => f !== null && (Array.isArray(f) ? f.length > 0 : true),
-      );
-      if (companyId && hasDocs) {
-        await companiesService.uploadDocuments(companyId, documentFiles);
-      }
       return api.companies.completeOnboarding.call();
     },
     onSuccess: async () => {