>From : Sitaco - Zakir Hussain Edavanna
As Received…………….
Violation & Penalties
No. Violation Penalties
1 Non-reporting for Iqama renewal prior to 3 days of its expiry without
applicable reason • If the applicant's employer is an individual or private
company or establishment, he shall be required to pay double the Iqama fees.
• If the applicant is working for a governmental institute, the institute is
responsible for submitting new Iqama and Iqama renewal requests of their
personnel within 2 months of recruiting them and before its expiry. In case of
delay, the institution shall be required to investigate with the employee
responsible of this delay to decide the disciplinary action for such violation.
2 Resident who fails to prove his holding of an Iqama and all information he
was asked to submit during his residency in the Kingdom If he failed to
provide
an applicable reason for the concerned authority, he shall be fined as follows:
• 1000 S.R. first instance.
• 2000 S.R. second instance.
• 3000 S.R. third instance.
3 Non-reporting to cancel or renew exit/re-entry visa or final exit visa prior
to its expiry He shall be fined as follows:
• 1000 S.R. first instance.
• 2000 S.R. second instance.
• 3000 S.R. third instance.
• He shall be provided with a new visa if required, as per the statutory
procedures.
4 Non-reporting loss of passport or Iqama within 24 hours as a maximum He
shall be fined as follows:
• 1000 S.R. first instance.
• 2000 S.R. second instance.
• 3000 S.R. third instance.
5 Practice of work by the dependants such as wives and children He shall be
fined as follows:
• 1000 S.R. first instance.
• 2000 S.R. second instance.
• 3000 S.R. third instance and the issue will be referred to the Minister of
Interior for his direction towards termination of the violator's Iqama and
deport him.
6 Overstaying in the Kingdom upon visa expiry • The violator shall be
subjected to statutory penalties as in custody, fining and deporting.
• Finalising his deporting procedures after collecting the statutory fines,
issue an exit visa for him and expedite his travel.
• If the violator came to visit a resident, the matter shall be referred to
the
Minister of Interior to issue directives towards the resident who harboured him
to terminate his Iqama and deport him.
7 Employing an expatriate with a visitor's visa • If the visa was valid he
shall be deported.
• If the visa was expired he shall be deported after implementing the
statutory
procedures.
• The employer shall be fined according to the statutory measures, if the
employer is an expatriate resident; he will be reported to the authorities
after
implementing the statuary penalties towards him, to consider his deportation.
8 Obtaining or helping an individual to obtain an Iqama or visa by himself.
Taking employment or helping any individual to take an employment based on
forgery or cheating. • If the violator is an expatriate, he shall be fined
10,000 S.R. or imprisoned for 3 months or both, along with the termination of
his Iqama and deportation from the Kingdom.
• If the violator is a Saudi Citizen. He shall be fined 10,000 S.R. the first
time. 15,000 S.R. in the second time along with on month imprisonment. 15,000
S.R. in the third time along with 3 months imprisonment. Type of violation
shall
be considered while applying the penalty.
• These penalties are applicable to the principal perpetrator, partner and
contributor.
• Fines shall be confiscated in all cases.
• Fines are multiplied according to the number of individuals involved and
violations.
9 Submitting forgery documents or providing false statements to Saudi
authorities in the Kingdom or abroad to obtain for himself or for another
individual an Iqama or any kind of visas. See penalties in paragraph 8.
10 Forgery, easement or changing the content of foreign travel documents or
Iqamas, and circulating them. See penalties in paragraph 8.
11 Trading entry visas See penalties in paragraph 8.
12 Delaying application and applicants, by service offices, finalising
applications illegally and dealing with aliens directly (not through the
employer), employing expatriates in the office, accepting applications not
signed by the employer or authorised signatories and incomplete signatures and
attests or exceeding their authorization in expedition specially Saudi passport
applications and Iqama applications for those who came to the Kingdom with a
non-working visa. the following measures shall be taken against any violating
service office (despite the prejudice for any penalties provided in statutory
as
in Forgery, bribery, passport and Iqama regulations):
• In the first instance, an official warning shall be sent to the office by
the
director of passports office to which the service office pursuer reports, if
the
violation doesn't necessitate further action.
• If the violation was repeated or was a gross one, the matter shall be
referred to the Ministry of Commerce (being the authority in charge of issuing
licenses to service offices) proposing a suitable penalty of suspension varying
from three months, six months or a year or termination of the office's license
according to repetition of violation and its size.
13 Return of the deported alien to the Kingdom after his expulsion. • In the
first instance, the fine is 1000 S.R. and re-deportation.
• For the second instance, the fine is 2000 S.R., 5 months imprisonment and
re-deportation.
• The fine shall be collected from the deportee immediately upon showing his
readiness to pay it, to avoid the possibility of delaying during the
finalisation of his procedures.
14 Sheltering the overstayer after performing his Hajj or Umrah, harbouring
him
or assisting him to stay illegally in the country • If the violator is an
expatriate resident, his fines are 10,000 S.R., or one month imprisonment, or
both along with the termination of his Iqama and deporting him.
• If the violator is a citizen, his fines in the first instance are 10,000
S.R.
and minimum two weeks imprisonment. For the second instance, his fines are
20,000 S.R. and 1 month imprisonment. Third instance fines are 30,000 S.R. and
three months imprisonment.
• Fines are multiplied according to the number of individuals involved.
• If the citizen wasn't able to pay his fines, he shall be imprisoned for an
interval between 1 to 6 months.
• Publish the violator's penalty in the local press with the judgment thereon
according to the censure instructions.
• In case of renting a residence to the overstayer, the renter shall be
considered a violator. He shall submit a pledge which shall be kept for future
reference. If violation repeated, the housing unit shall be closed for six
months, and for one year in the second violation and in the third instance the
closure will be for two years.
• In the first instance, Saudi violator's age and health condition shall be
considered for imprisonment duration, evidenced by attested documents.
15 Hajj, Umrah guest or the Prophet's Mosque visitor, who is self employed,
and
works for his own account or who didn't leave the country after his visa
expiry.
• Fine is 10,000 S.R. or one month imprisonment or both.
• His documents shall be copied and sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
order to notify the Saudi Embassy in his country to suspend granting him a visa
for Umrah or visit before a year minimally of his deportation.
• He shall be deported at his own expense.
16 Hajj, Umrah guest or the Prophet's Mosque visitor, who travels outside
Makkah, Jeddah or Madinah during validity of the visa granted to him or after
its expiry. • Fine is 10,000 S.R. or one month imprisonment or both .
• He shall be deported at his own expense.
• Investigate the role of the establishment responsible for his entry in the
occurrence of the violation before imposing the penalty.
17 Transporting a guest for Hajj, Umrah or the Prophet's Mosque visitor
outside
the established routes specified for him by the establishment responsible for
his arrival and departure during his visa validity • If the carrier is an
expatriate resident, the fine is 10,000 S.R. or 1 to 3 months imprisonment or
both in addition to deportation.
• If the carrier is a citizen, the first instance fine is 10,000 S.R. or 1 to
3
months imprisonment or both. Second instance fine is 20,000 S.R. or 3 to 6
months imprisonment. Third instance fine is 30,000 S.R. or six months
imprisonment.
• Fines are multiplied according to the number of individuals involved.
• Investigate the role of the establishment responsible for his entry in the
occurrence of the violation to be punished if the violation was established.
18 Transportation of an Umrah or Hajj guest, or the Prophet's Mosque visitor
outside the established routes specified for him by the establishment
responsible for his arrival and departure after the expiry of the validity of
the visa. • See penalties in paragraph 17.
• Publish the violator's penalty in the local press with the judgment thereon
according to the censure instructions.
19 Overstayer employment who arrived the Kingdom by non-work visa • If the
violator is an expatriate resident, the fine is 10,000 S.R. or one month
imprisonment or both in addition to deportation.
• If the violator is a citizen, the first instance fine is 10,000 S.R.. Second
instance fine is 20,000 S.R. or one month imprisonment or both. Third instance
fine is 30,000 S.R. or three months imprisonment.
• Fines are multiplied according to the number of individuals involved.
• The overstayer shall be deported on his employer's expenses.
• In the first instance, the violator shall be deprived from the right to
recruit expatriates for one year. Two years for the second instance and three
years for the third.
• If the citizen wasn't able to pay his fines, he shall be imprisoned for an
interval between 1 to 3 months.
• Publish the violator's penalty in local press with the judgment thereon
according to the censure instructions.
• Investigate the role of the establishment responsible for the overstayer
entry into the country in employing him illegally prior to imposing the
penalty.
20 Non-reporting (by the employer) regarding a runaway employee in accordance
with instructions regulating this matter. • In the first instance, the
employer fine is 5,000 S.R.. Second instance, fine is 10,000 S.R. and for
third,
fine is 15,000 S.R. in addition to one month imprisonment.
• Fines are multiplied according to the number of non-reported runaway
employees.
• The runaway employee shall be deported at his employer's expense. If he was
working for his own, he shall be deported at his own expense.
• In the first instance, the violator shall be deprived from the right to
recruit expatriates for one year. Two years for the second instance and three
years for the third.
• Sending a copy of the management notification to the patrol command to
investigate the establishment's status.
21 Resident working for another employer or for his own account. •
Termination of his Iqama and he shall be deported.
22 Employing an expatriate who was recruited to work for another employer, by
an expatriate resident. • If the employer was an expatriate resident, the
fine
is 5,000 S.R. or one month imprisonment or both in addition to deportation.
• If the employer was a citizen, the first instance fine is 5,000 S.R.. Second
instance fine is 10,000 S.R. or one month imprisonment or both. Third instance
fine is 20,000 S.R. or three months imprisonment or both.
• The employer allowing his employee to work for a third party without
reporting their runaway in accordance with the respective instructions, shall
be
penalized with the penalties referred to in paragraphs (a-b-c-d) of violation
No. (20), in addition of sending a copy of the management notification to the
patrol command to investigate the establishment's status.
• Fines are multiplied according to the number of individuals involved.
• The violator expatriate shall be deported at his employer's expense. If he
was working for his own, he shall be deported at his own expense.
• In the first instance, the violator shall be deprived from the right to
recruit expatriates for one year. Two years for the second instance and three
years for the third.
23 Employer leaving his employees working for their own account or in return
for amounts, paid by them, to him. • The employer shall be fined 5,000 S.R.
and one month imprisonment for the first instance. Second instance fine is
20,000 S.R. and two months imprisonment. Third instance fine is 50,000 S.R. and
three months imprisonment.
• Fines are multiplied according to the number of individuals involved.
• Expatriate violator shall be deported at his own expenses.
• In the first instance, the violator shall be deprived from the right to
recruit expatriates for one year. Two years for the second instance and three
years for the third.
• Sending a copy of the management notification to the patrol command to
investigate the establishment's status.
24 Employing an infiltrator, accommodating or sheltering him. • If the
employer was an expatriate resident, the fine is 10,000 S.R. and one month
imprisonment in addition to deportation.
• If the employer was a citizen, the first instance fine is 10,000 S.R. and
two
weeks imprisonment. Second instance fine is 20,000 S.R
.
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