Permanent Family Dependent Visa (Riyadh Saudi)

If you are planning to bring your family in Saudi Arabia, Here's how you gonna do it.

Requirements

• Iqama - your iqama profession must be eligible to bring your family here in Saudi. In my case, draftsman and engineering profession is ok.
• Form - fill up all required information then Chamber of Commerce Stamp
• Employer Certificate - must contain with your name, iqama #,  starting date, position and salary then Chamber of Commerce Stamp
• Saudi Council ID/Certificate - if needed (based on your iqama profession)
• Passport copy -  passport copy & visa copy and your dependent passport copy
• Diploma / Transcript of Records- with Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs Stamp then translate to Arabic (if the document is not arabic)
• Marriage Contract - with Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs Stamp then translate to Arabic (if the document is not arabic)
• Birth Certificate of your daughter or son - with Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs Stamp then translate to arabic (if the document is not arabic)
• Bank Payment of SR 2,000 regardless how many your dependent

Images

Chamber of Commerce Stamp

Visa

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Stamp

Important Location

• Istaqdam Office
• Chamber of Commerce
• Translation Office

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Procedure

Complete the required documents and go to Istaqdam Office as early as possible. Make sure that you will be there on or before 5:00 AM or don't go there anymore. A police officer will come and distribute a queue number up to 100 only during that time. If you reach the location, write your name in paper list in front of the gate (in my case, it was useless) and make sure that while you are waiting, you are siting in the fence. In my experience, when the officer arrive, he did not honor the paper list instead he distribute the number to those queue people siting on the fence. After you received the queue number, relax eat your breakfast and came back when it is 7:30 AM. Their official timing is 7:30AM up to 3:00PM

Inside the office, they will give you a list to arrange all your documents in a proper way. When your number is called and their is no problem with your documents, immediately they will issue a yellow paper which is equivalent to your Permanent Family Dependent Visa. Make sure that their name is correct before leaving the office.