JEDDAH: Security authorities deported around 193,044 violators of the residence and work system to their respective countries during the last eight months of the Islamic calendar, at a rate of 800 violators per day.
According to government statistics, 11,892 violators are still waiting to complete their deportation procedures in accommodation centers designated by the state for these cases.
Makkah region recorded the highest percentage of violating deportees to their countries, with a rate of nearly 38 percent.
This comes at a time when security authorities have confirmed that they will continue their inspection campaigns on all sites and labor gatherings without exception, and that some actions and abuses will not deter security authorities from following up on violators in any location.
The Passport Department has vowed to implement the severest penalties on whomever transfers or violates the residence and work system. It includes absences from work, especially domestic labor where they cover up their presence, hide them or offer any means of assistance, noting that violators are exposing themselves to a prison sentence for up to six months, a fine up to SR100,000 and deportation. It was noted earlier that the work owner can record the absence of the domestic labor automatically, through the passport services provided through the electronic portal of the Ministry of the Interior, “Abshir.”