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 0dd3e4462..b06b1487c 100644
--- a/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/components/onboarding/OnboardingWizardDialog.tsx
+++ b/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/components/onboarding/OnboardingWizardDialog.tsx
@@ -492,6 +492,15 @@ export default function OnboardingWizardDialog({
     licenseFiles,
     onLicenseChange: setLicenseFiles,
     uploadedDocumentKeys,
+    // What the server says is already on file, per operational profile. The
+    // wizard's own `roleProfiles` cannot say: getInfo leaves `licenseFiles`
+    // empty, so a resumed wizard asked for a licence it had already been given
+    // and refused to submit until it was uploaded a second time.
+    uploadedLicenceProfileIds: (
+      requirementsQuery.data?.licenseProfiles ?? []
+    )
+      .filter((p) => p.uploaded)
+      .map((p) => p.profileId),
     onUploadDocuments: handleUploadDocuments,
     // The company's single identity verification, and whose it is. Fayda is
     // mandatory for an Ethiopian company; a foreign one may instead type a
diff --git a/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/pages/accounts/CompanyProfileForm.tsx b/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/pages/accounts/CompanyProfileForm.tsx
index 542fd17b5..fd0e060e1 100644
--- a/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/pages/accounts/CompanyProfileForm.tsx
+++ b/apps/edr-freight-web/portal/src/pages/accounts/CompanyProfileForm.tsx
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ export default function CompanyProfileForm({
   onLicenseChange,
   submitError,
   uploadedDocumentKeys,
+  uploadedLicenceProfileIds,
   onUploadDocuments,
   identity: rawIdentity,
   onIdentityChange,
@@ -96,6 +97,16 @@ export default function CompanyProfileForm({
   submitError?: string | null;
   /** fileKeys whose company document is already uploaded server-side (resume). */
   uploadedDocumentKeys?: string[];
+  /**
+   * Profile ids whose business licence the server already holds.
+   *
+   * `roleProfiles.existingFiles` cannot answer this on a resumed wizard:
+   * `getInfo` does not populate `licenseFiles`, so every profile looks empty
+   * however many licences are on file. Taken from the onboarding requirements,
+   * which is the server's own verdict and what `markOnboardingComplete`
+   * enforces.
+   */
+  uploadedLicenceProfileIds?: string[];
   /**
    * Auto-upload the currently-selected company documents (the Documents step's
    * "Continue" action). Resolves to an error message string on failure so the
@@ -688,7 +699,9 @@ export default function CompanyProfileForm({
     if (cooperative) return errs;
     for (const p of roleProfiles ?? []) {
       const hasNew = (licenseFiles?.[p.id]?.length ?? 0) > 0;
-      const hasExisting = p.existingFiles.length > 0;
+      const hasExisting =
+        p.existingFiles.length > 0 ||
+        (uploadedLicenceProfileIds ?? []).includes(p.id);
       if (!hasNew && !hasExisting) {
         errs[p.id] = "Business license is required";
       }