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Well, there is nothing new about this rule. Since decades working for someone else than own sponsor is documented penalizeable. It's only till now that they have been flexible about it.

Since long I've been strongly criticizing (rather condemning) the free-of-job aka 'free' visas concept and have been discouraging people considering to land obtaining it.

They have been very hard a few weeks back and trust me they'll hit harder after the expiry of 3 months grace period they have announced.

You have a few limited options now:
- Hunt for jobs, and ask your employers about the new visa possibility.
- Check the color category of your sponsor. I wish it would be red/orange. Getting a transfer would be easy.
- If none of above works, try to contact your kafeel and ask for the No Objection Certificate for sponsorship transfer (of course you must have an offer in hand asap.)

ricky555 wrote:

Assalamwalaikum,

Please help me in my concerns. I have landed in dammam last 2month back and I got my iqama last week. As the day I got my Iqama the govt had started the rule to work under the same sponsor and not to work any where else. Before I receive my iqama I was been giving interviews and was been getting selected even, where in the companies stated once you get the iqama come back to us.


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Assalamwalaikum.

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as for the profession only your sponsor or the new company that will hire you can change it by paying 1000sar fee,

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TheLegendLeads wrote:

Well, there is nothing new about this rule. Since decades working for someone else than own sponsor is documented penalizeable. It's only till now that they have been flexible about it.

Since long I've been strongly criticizing (rather condemning) the free-of-job aka 'free' visas concept and have been discouraging people considering to land obtaining it.

They have been very hard a few weeks back and trust me they'll hit harder after the expiry of 3 months grace period they have announced.

You have a few limited options now:
- Hunt for jobs, and ask your employers about the new visa possibility.
- Check the color category of your sponsor. I wish it would be red/orange. Getting a transfer would be easy.
- If none of above works, try to contact your kafeel and ask for the No Objection Certificate for sponsorship transfer (of course you must have an offer in hand asap.)

Well, i must say that this situation is happen with lot of iqama holders these days.

Above mentioned solutions are also well. But the ultimate solution is "LUCK". As soon as you can escape and hide from Jawazat or POLICE, you can survive, else you must have to come with new VISA from job offered company.

Good Luck.