Tuesday, July 21, 2026

The General Directorate of Passports, through its administrative committees in various passport departments across regions, issued (25,310) administrative decisions during the month of Muharram 1448 AH against citizens and residents for violating residency, labor, and border security regulations. The penalties ranged from imprisonment, fines, and deportation.

The Passports Directorate emphasized to all citizens and residents, including business owners and individuals, not to transport, employ, shelter violators of residency, labor, and border security regulations, nor to cover for them or provide any means of assistance in finding job opportunities, housing, or transportation.

It called for cooperation and reporting violators of residency, labor, and border security regulations by calling (911) in the regions of Makkah, Madinah, Riyadh, and the Eastern Province, and (999) in the rest of the Kingdom's regions. All reports will be treated with complete confidentiality without any liability on the reporter.

Akhbar Al-Saudi