Online residency renewal from next month

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Residence renewal of Article 18 can be done online starting from March 2020, local Arabic newspaper Al Qabas reported quoting the Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Residence Affairs, Major General Talal Marafi.

With this new system, companies and institutions can renew the residence of expatriates online without visiting any of the six governorates residence affairs department.

Each company will have its own password to enter the system and follow the steps to renew the residence for expats without any complications or security breach from hackers.

This service will benefit one and half million expats, this comes as a second stage after implementation of Article 20 (domestic workers) residence renewal. Next step will be residence for newly joining dependents of expats.

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