Amnesty Period gave the freedom to Illegal Expatriates to pay fine by correcting their status and live happily in Saudi Arabia or leave Saudi Arabia.

As per the Latest News from The Director General of Passports (Jawazat) Major Gen. Solaiman Al-Yahya informed that Amnesty period will be extended further.

Amnesty Period was a step towards making Saudi ‘A Nation Free Violation’ by giving expatriates a 4 month long Amnesty Period.

Major Gen. Solaiman Al-Yahya informed all the expatriates that those who haven’t got benefit from the Amnesty period and and did not respect Saudi Laws will be punished.

Due to this campaign 6 lakhs (6,00,000) violators living in Saudi left to their home countries.

Checking have also started in Saudi for illegal expatriates to catch and punish.

Hope all illegal expatriates have availed this opportunities and May Allah help everyone.

Amnesty Period Extended by 30 Days

This will help expatriates to change their illegal status in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This step was to make Saudi ‘A Nation free of Violation’.

Expatriates who fails to correct their status within this period may face heavy fines anf might also face legal issues and even can be blocked to re-enter kingdom.

The 30-day extension is in line with directives of Minister of Interior Prince Abdul Aziz bin Saud bin Naif, according to Director General of Passports Maj. Gen. Sulaiman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Yahya, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

Amnesty Period allows illegal expatriates to leave Saudi Arabia without penalty or correct their residence status in the kingdom.

Extension of Amnesty Period for 30 days is really a good time of all Expatriates those who have issues in Saudi to clear things and lead a happy life in Saudi Arabia.

We do are getting lots of queries on our Social media channels to check if Amnesty Period is getting extended or not?

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Saudi Arabia don’t have any plans yet to extend the Amensty period. Amnesty Campaign started of on March 29th 2017 and will end in June 29th 2017. Illegal expatriates living in Saudi Arabia and wanted to leave Saudi can leave the Kingdom without paying heavy fines and also they can come back to Saudi in a legal way (As Fingerprints will not be recorded)

As per the sources approximates of Half a Million expatriates in Saudi Arabia corrected their status in Amnesty Period

All Nations Consululates appealed their illegal Expatriates to crroect their status.

So this is the last chance and last week of Amnesty period for all foreign workers to correct their status in Saudi Arabia as Amnesty Period is not getting Extended.

Though, the initial results have been good according to the General Directorate of Passports and Ministry of Labor and Social Development.

Amnesty Campaign has helped a lot of violators to correct their status in the kingdom on one side, and on the other side atleast 1 Million Expatriates who are not able to corect their status may leave Sauid Arabia within this 90 days Amnesty period.

Amnesty campaign, which was initially launched four years ago, has facilitated the departure of more that 5.5 million illegal expatriates.

The Amnesty campaign has resulted in large numbers of violators attending to Passports location. Nearly 80 locations received illegal expats across the 13 provinces on a daily basis. The locations are distributed between 10 in Riyadh, seven in Quasimodo, 12 in Makkah, two in Al-Baba, three in Asir, four each in Madinah and the Northern Border region, two in Jazan, three in Hail, five in Najran, four in Al-Joudeh, six in Tabuk, and 16 in the Eastern Province.

Turki Al-Manea, general director of the branch of the ministry of labor and social development in Qassim, said the campaign will likely lead to the exit of at least 1 million violators.