Article 6 of the Saudi Rules on Expatriate Violators

After Article 5 placed obligations on the private sector and individuals, Article 6 directs a duty to all government bodies, which is to verify the status of expatriates in two scopes:

• Expatriates working for them directly.
• Expatriates working in the fields and areas within their jurisdiction, that is, the sectors the body supervises.

These persons must have one of two things:

1. Valid residence permits together with authorization to work, or
2. They work under recognized official contracts.

So the government itself is required not to be a source of employment of violators, and to monitor the status of expatriates in the sectors under its jurisdiction. This article completes the system of responsibility in the rules: Article 5 requires private companies, establishments and individuals to ensure their labor obtains residence permits and work permits and renews them and to report their absence, and this article binds government bodies. It is followed by Article 7, which provides for deprivation of recruitment for anyone proved to have employed expatriate violators.

The article does not set out the method of verification or the detailed procedures, and it does not itself attach a penalty to a body that falls short in this. Anyone dealing with a government body in a contract that includes expatriate labor and wanting to know his obligations may consult a specialist lawyer in residency laws and administrative cases.