Saudi: No split payment allowed for arrears of iqamas
Saudi Arabia has clarified that all the arrears of work permit fee, expatriate fee and dependent’s fee, caused by the delay in the issuance and renewal of residency permit (iqama) linked to work permit, shall be paid altogether and there is no split payment allowed for these arrears at the time of renewal of iqama on a quarterly, half-yearly or nine-month period basis.
The split payment of the work permit fee can be made along with the expatriate fee and dependent’s fee on a quarterly basis. Accordingly, the quarterly payment of work permit is SR25 while the expatriate fee is SR2100 and SR2400 respectively while the half-yearly payment of work permit fee is SR50 whereas the expatriate fee is SR4200 and SR4800 respectively. As for the nine-month period, the payment for the work permit is SR75 while the payment for the expatriate fee is SR6300 and SR7200 respectively. The monthly fee for all the categories of dependents and companions amounts to SR400 each.
Regarding the late payment of the fee due to the delay in the renewal of iqama, it has been clarified that companies and establishments need to pay firstly expatriate fee for the foreign workers for the period when their number is more than that of Saudis and then the fee for the period when the number of expatriates is less than that of Saudi employees.
