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Can I travel after my visit visa expires?

 Foreigners residing on work visas in Saudi Arabia are also allowed to invite their families on visit visas.

According to immigration law, visitor visas are issued on a family and commercial basis. For a family visit visa, a foreign worker is easily eligible to issue a visa for his wife, children, mother and mother-in-law.

Applications for the issuance of a visit visa can be submitted through the digital platform 'Abshar'. Visas are issued within three to seven days.

One person asked from the permits, "Is it possible to travel three days after the expiration of the visit visa?"


"It is mandatory for foreigners coming on a visit visa to extend the period before it expires," the permit said.

"If the period has been extended too much, then they must leave the country before the visa expires." Staying after the visa expires will be considered illegal.

It is clear that many people thought that foreign workers coming to the country on visit visas could travel within three days of the expiration of the visa.

"There is no three-day clause," the permit said. Visitor visa holders must leave before the visa expires.

Keep in mind that the Hijri calendar is prevalent in the country. In this regard, determine the duration of your visa according to the lunar calendar in the country coming on a visit visa and travel one day before the expiration date or before the evening of the same day. can go.

Another person asked the permits, "Stay on a special visa." The sponsor is imprisoned in a case, he cannot be contacted, the residence has also expired, how can I change the sponsorship?

The licenses said, "Refer to the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, a subsidiary of the Population Agency, where the housing issues of foreigners are reviewed and resolved." Here the affected worker can express his concern by informing his employer (sponsor) about the situation.

Complaints of any kind may be lodged with the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, an institution whose care of the affairs of domestic workers is called in Arabic 'Daam Amala Manzaliya'. The purpose of this organization is to solve the problems of foreign workers residing in domestic workers.

In this regard, applications can also be made to the said organization regarding the issues that the workers are facing with regard to their sponsor.

After reviewing the matter, the officials present in the said institution send their recommendations to the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, which resolves the matter in the light of these recommendations.