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Ajaja
Joined 2008
Posts: 13

Family residence Visa

16 years ago

Hi Folks,

my husband is working in al Jubail since September 2007. My first stay in Saudi was in March 2008. Since his company sent him to Jubail it was planned, that I will accompany him.

For my first stay in Jubail I only get a visit visa for 3 month.

Somebody in my husbands company must have made a mistake, because I had to obtain a residence permit.

I leave Saudi on May, 13th. One of the liaison officers had to prepare the exit form paper for the company, my husbands working for, and they told me, that I had to make a copy of my passport with the new exit stamp in it an send it to the company as soon as possible to obtain residence...

Now I'm really frustrated... Today I've got an mail from one of the officers who's preparing my return to Saudi... and again something went wrong:

The Status of my husband is mentioned as "technichian". So I'm not allowed to get residence?

I've to sent again a authorized document of our marriage and Diploma or Educational Certificate, translated in arabic and - maybe - they can make a residence visa for me.

Another solution is to obtain again a visit Visa, so that I can return to KSA.

Can anyone tell me, what went wrong? How can we change the "status" of my husband? Is it possible?

The liaison officer told us at the airport, that we can call him, if we had any trouble with my residence permit. Does he mean we gave him money and everything is okay?

I'm really dissapointed this evening... a visit visa ma be a solution, but everytime you have much trouble, coming back again.

Did anybody has some experience and is able to help?

We planned to stay some years in Saudi Arabia. But at the moment I don't know, how to plan the next steps. Everything seems to be insecure and instable...

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