Muqeem amends rule to know visa status of iqama holders

Muqeem amends rule to know visa status of iqama holders

Okaz/Saudi GazetteRIYADH — The Muqeem platform, under the Ministry of Interior, has made amendments with regard to checking the visa status of holders of iqama (residency permit). According to the new amendment, the status of visa holder will be either “allowed to enter,” or “not allowed to enter.” The visa status checking service was previously limited to knowing the status of the visa in terms of “valid, used, expired, or cancelled.”The Muqeem portal was launched to verify the status of new visas, and the service is available at present without charging any fees. The platform provides many services, most notably “verifying visas, obtaining a report about the visa status of the expatriate, and the possibility of verifying the status of a visitor. It also serves as a portal for obtaining permits to enter Makkah.Many services related to foreign workers and establishments were transformed into electronic services during the last period, the most prominent of which is the Qiwa platform, which reduced the probationary period of new workers. The platform made an amendment in the probation period column in the form for electronic documentation of labor contracts so as to bring down the maximum period of probation to 90 days instead