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lynnknows · Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject: IS IT TRUE

Hi,

I wanted to know if you have to go through getting a medical, police check and all the other things for the visa and then do it again, The medical and fingerprinting, once you arrive in Saudi?

Cleopatra · Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject:

I didn't have to do any police check to get my visa, but I know that some embassies - notably the one in Washington - require this. As for the medical, for my first job in KSA I had to do most of it again upon arrival in Riyadh, but my second employers did not require me to repeat it. Like so much in KSA, it all depends on your employer.

Cleopatra · Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject:

I didn't have to do any police check to get my visa, but I know that some embassies - notably the one in Washington - require this. As for the medical, for my first job in KSA I had to do most of it again upon arrival in Riyadh, but my second employers did not require me to repeat it. Like so much in KSA, it all depends on your employer.

also in saudi · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 137

Didn't need police check or medical.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Medical before visa and medical after arrival is not unusual.