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[nomad soul]

Iqama transfer without sponsor’s consent
Saudi Gazette | 2 May 2014
Source: http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140503203888

TAIF — Expatriate workers will soon be able to change their sponsorship without their current employer’s approval and work for another employer in the Kingdom, Al-Madinah daily reported. The Ministry of Labor will enforce the new decision within the next few months to provide expatriates with more flexibility when it comes to job change. However, the worker will only be able to do so when his employment contract with the current employer expires and based on the contract’s terms and conditions. The relaxed law will increase competitiveness between Saudi and non-Saudi labor as salaries of expatriates will increase. Employers will also compete with one another to attract Saudi and non-Saudi labor, creating equal job opportunities for all.

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[plumpy nut]

The best news I've ever heard hear.

[nomad soul]

I doubt there will be hordes of teachers transferring from one sketchy contracting company to another of equal or lesser sketchiness. This decision would likely appeal more to those going from a direct-hire situation to the same with a new employer as well as those teachers whose solid qualifications get them from a contracting company and into a direct-hire spot. Moreover, transferring to the new employer shouldn't entail heading back to one's home country and going through the visa process again. But I could be off---this is a wait-n-see situation.

[rollingk]

It's a wait and see indeed. So much is talked about to make the market fairer for workers that simply never transpires. Laws are passed and never enacted and are forgotten.

However, as to direct hire vs. sketchy recruiters, I'd think that if something does come of this plan then all employers will probably become more accountable, including direct hires, which can be quite sleazy as well if locals are involved.

[scot47]

"Plans"

[trapezius]

[gorkomi]

Saudi Arabia is using foreign workers to help them adapt to working with the West and keeping up with the modern world. It's in their best interest to stretch that to all areas. Who knows; this may lead to a revised medical report for visas- one which does not require us to poop into jars for diseases that no one in the West ever gets anyway.

[plumpy nut]

[scot47]

Do people really believe that the Ministries in Riyadh will change the regulations for the convenience of foreigners ? Why should they ? Some people have a highly developed and misplaced sense of entitlement ! KSA is not run for the benefit of its migrant workers !

[Sheik Yerbuti]

http://qsaudi.com/expats-can-iqama-transfer-without-sponsor-approval/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Iqama+Transfer


I don't see this happening any time soon...but easy to see how
misinformation spreads quick around these parts.

[nomad soul]

(Bump)

[SheikMilkShake]

very interesting, you all in KSA will be able to do anything..
Last year , 500,000 Burmese were given permanent residence. And Palestinians have been there forever.

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140813214569


Jawazat issues special IDs to Bidoon

Last updated: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:18 PM

Saudi Gazette report
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The director general Monday launched a group of new electronic services which, among others, will enable Saudis to renew their passports electronically through the Internet website of the Interior Ministry.

Under the services, the expatriates can also extend the validity of their visit visas. The expatriates can use Muqeem electronic service to issue or renew their iqamas.
Al-Yahya said special Jawazat teams will be visiting the disabled at the hospitals or homes and also inmates in prisons to activate their Abshir electronic service through which they can carry out all the passport procedures.

[The Fifth Column]

Thank GOD that they are taking yet another important transaction out of the hands of the ever-capable, sincere, even-tempered, professional, polite, service-above-everything-else, tea-abstaining, mobile-hating, non-primping, selfless, attention to detail-oriented, smiling Saudi public servant!

[HavCrick]

If you have read through several posts re: KSA, on this site, the ONE thing you should have learned is that you cannot believe anything stated: verbally, written or legally.

There is a move called "Saudiazation" (sp)......meaning trying to get more Saudi into the workplace and fewer foreigners. There was an article in the Arab New recently (May??) that said, basically, that Saudi will require foreign workers for at least the next 40 years because of incompetence, ignorance and laziness (not in the article, but true). Remember, every other nationality is put on the Earth to serve Saudis.

I talked to person a few days ago. This person had converted to Islam before coming here. Since being here (only a few weeks) this person said they were considering renouncing their religion because Islam is so perverted here.

So, again, if you believe ANYTHING you are told by a recruiter or an HR person for direct hire, you do so at your own risk. That's true anywhere, any job, any country. But, there are enough posts here to know to take anything you are told with a grain of salt (or sand). Remember, they are here to make money. You are here to wipe their ..........

[plumpy nut]