The General Directorate of Passports in Saudi Arabia, through its administrative committees in the various regional passport departments, issued 17,156 administrative decisions against citizens and residents for violating residency, work and border security regulations, and the penalties varied between imprisonment, a fine and deportation, according to Okaz newspaper.
confirmed Saudi passports All citizens and residents, including owners of establishments and individuals, must not transfer, employ, or shelter violators of the residency, work, and border security regulations, or cover them up, or provide any means of assistance to them in finding job opportunities, housing, or transportation..
It called on all citizens and residents to cooperate and report violators of residency, work and border security regulations.
The joint field campaigns to follow up and control violators of the residency, work and border security regulations, which took place recently in all the different regions of the Kingdom, resulted in the arrest of 15,305 violators, including 8,816 violators of the residency law, 3,935 violators of the border security law, and 2,554 violators of the labor law.
The total number of those caught while trying to cross the border into Saudi Arabia 560 people were arrested, and 19 were involved in transporting, harboring, and employing violators of residency, work, and border security regulations, and covering them up. The total of those who are currently subject to procedures for implementing the regulations is 42,569 violating expatriates, of whom 40,614 are men, and 1,955 are women.
