In force
Saudi Rules on Expatriate Violators
قواعد التعامل مع الوافدين من مخالفي الأنظمة
Rules for dealing with expatriates who violate the laws. The text is set out in 14 articles.
- Articles
- 14
- In force
- 14
- Amended
- 0
- Issued
- 12/5/1434 AH
Issued by: مرسوم ملكي رقم م / 24 بتاريخ 12 / 5 / 1434
Each article shows the official Arabic text, which is the only legally binding version, followed by our plain-English explanation.
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Articles of the Saudi Rules on Expatriate Violators
- Article 1Article 1 tasks the Ministry of Interior with arresting, detaining, penalizing and deporting expatriate violators, and with arresting anyone who employs, harbors, shelters, transports or helps them.
- Article 2Article 2 sets who bears the cost of deporting an expatriate violator: the employer in principle, the person he was found working for, the expatriate himself, the state, or the party through which he came, the transporter or the concealer.
- Article 3Article 3 requires companies and establishments that provide services to pilgrims and Umrah performers to report to the competent authority any pilgrim or Umrah performer who overstays after the end of the stay period.
- Article 4Article 4 requires the sponsor of a visitor to report immediately if the visitor overstays or is absent from departure after the stay period ends, and treats failure to report as concealment on his part.
- Article 5Article 5 requires companies, establishments and individuals to obtain and renew residence permits and work permits for their workers, not to let them work for others or for themselves, and to report their absence within five days.
- Article 6Article 6 requires all government bodies to make sure that expatriates working for them or in their fields of jurisdiction have valid residence permits and are authorized to work or work under recognized official contracts.
- Article 7Article 7 provides that anyone proved to have employed violators, let his workers work for themselves or for others, or used other people's workers is deprived of recruitment for up to five years.
- Article 8Article 8 bars every deported expatriate from entering the Kingdom, for the periods and under the procedures set by a regulation issued by decision of the Minister of Interior.
- Article 9Article 9 provides for sheltering expatriate violators in shelter centers established for that purpose until they are deported.
- Article 10Article 10 provides that the Ministry of Interior applies to the violators mentioned in Articles 1, 3 and 4 the penalties in Articles (4) and (5) of the Regulation of the Treatment of Arrivals to the Kingdom.
- Article 11Article 11 assigns the examination of violations of the rules to committees in the General Directorate of Passports and its branches, with decisions approved by the Minister of Interior or his delegate, and allows the jurisdiction to be transferred.
- Article 12Article 12 allows anyone against whom a passports committee issues an administrative decision to file a grievance with the Minister of Interior within no more than thirty working days of being notified of or learning of the decision.
- Article 13Article 13 authorizes the Minister of Interior to issue the executive decisions needed to apply the rules for dealing with expatriates who violate the laws.
- Article 14Article 14 provides for publishing the rules for dealing with expatriates who violate the laws in the Official Gazette and their taking effect from the date of publication.