We urge all our Expat brothers & sisters to have their fingerprint registered first along with their children who are 6 and more than 6 years of age.

Fingerprint must for every Expat in Saudi Arabia

The Jawazat urged all expatriates in Saudi Arabia completed their fingerprint registration at the earliest possible.

It is noteworthy that Saudi Arabia (KSA) has made registration of biometrics and fingerprinting mandatory for all male and female expats as well as for visitors and pilgrims.

All expatriate workers and their family members are required to do the fingerprinting registration for completion of the residency and travel procedures.

In January 2015, the Jawazat made registration of fingerprints mandatory for all expatriates and their dependents above the age of 15 for the issuance and renewal of residency permit (iqama) as well as for the issuance of exit and reentry visa. Fingerprinting recording was made mandatory for applicants of visa for performing the annual pilgrimage of Hajj from 2014 onward, and it was made mandatory later for foreign Umrah pilgrims and visitors too.

All Saudi embassies in countries starting 1439 Hijri will ensure that Fingerprints will be taken for all the Pilgrims visiting for Hajj & Umrah coming to Saudi Arabia in their Home country itself.

Saudi Embassies in all countries have already informed all the tours & travels and pilgrim servies to start collecting Biometric fingerprints coming to Saudi Arabia while applyinh for Hajj & Umrah.

Earlier it was done in few countries but now it is made compulsary for all the countries and their Pilgrims about this.

The pilgrims would also be charged a fee for the process, the amount of which has not been decided so far.

Biometric Fingerprinting is also known as Basmah in Saudi Arabia because without this all government services cannot be done.

The Official website of MOI provided this facility to check if your FingerPrint (Basmah) got enrolled or not.

Here are the Steps to Check FingerPrint (Basmah) enrollment Status:

1.Open the Official website of Ministry of Interior and clikc on “Electronic Inquiries” >> Select “Passports” from the left side of the menu and click on “Public Query FingerPrint Enrollment”.

You can also go this link to open “Public Query Fingerprint Enrollment”

2.Enter the details in the Personal information box such as:

Identity Number (Iqama Number):

Enter Image Code:

Once you’ve filled all the details and click on “View” button.

After Clicking on this button If you see the message “FingerPrint Enrollment updated” then it means that your
fingerprint record exists in the system.

If you get a messages as “No Records Found”, then go to the nearest fingerprinting center and get it done. Here is the list of FingerPrint Centers

Documents Required for Fingerprinting for Women:

1) Iqama Copy & Original
2) Passport Copy & Original

How to do it?

1) Go to Jawazat Office
2) Approach the MOI service desk
3) Take the TOken from Security guard and wait for your turn to be displayed on the screen
4) Don’t Rush or barge into someone else. Be Patient
5) When your turn comes, send your female member to go inside with Iqama and Original passport (Males are not allowed to go inside)
6) It takes 3 mins for the work to be done and

Here is the List of FingerPrinting Centers for Women in Saudi Arabia