Naqal Maloomat

Naqal Maloomat of Passport in Saudi Arabia

Transfer of Information on Passport in Saudi Arabia

We have talked about the procedures in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which have never been seen anywhere in the world. For example, the procedure of submission of copy of renewed Iqama to bank to avoid freezing of bank account. Similarly, you have to stamp your new passport from the Jawazat (Passport Office) in Saudi Arabia to make it valid. If your passport is not stamped, it is not valid. Technically speaking, transferring of Information means that new passport number is registered in the systems of Jawazat which takes less than a minute of Jawazat official.

In this article, I will explain step by step approach of doing transfer of information on Passport in Saudi Arabia. Please keep it mind that your sponsor (Kafeel) is responsible for transferring the information from one passport to another. So, if you are an employee, your Kafeel is responsible for this. But you are responsible for transferring information from all of your dependents.

1. First of all, you need to locate the office of Jawazat (Passport Office) where this activity is performed. There are several offices of Jawazat in every city. All the offices of Jawazat do not perform this function. If you are living in Jeddah, you can go to Rehab office of Jawazat. Enter this altitude and magnitude in google maps to view the exact location. 21.543579,39.230417
2. Try to go to Jawazat office at around 10 am in the morning. If you go too early in the morning, it will be very crowded. You will have to wait a lot for transferring the information. If you will go a bit late, let us say 11 am, there are chances that your turn will be after Zuhar. It also means, you will have to wait a lot. So, 10am is good timing.
3. Copy of Iqama of Sponsor, Copy of Iqama of dependent, Copy of New Passport, Copy of Old Passport, Filled Form for transfer of Information are the documents required to be submitted to the Jawazat. Moreover, you must have old and new original passport of dependent.
4. When you go to Jawazat office, make sure that you are sitting in the right room. If you can read Arabic, just check that you are sitting in front of windows of “Naqal Maloomat”. If you are not good in arabic, try to ask from at least 2,3 people about it.
5. Take the token immediately; you will be in waiting list once the token is issued.
6. If you don’t have form, you can take it from Jawazat office at the spot. Fill it yourself if you know Arabic. Otherwise, you can seek help of any Arabic speaking guy for this purpose. You can also find some person in the waiting list sharing your nationality. You can seek his assistance as well as he may have a filled form
7. Wait for your turn and submit all the documents to Jawazat officer on the window. He will check the records and then update it in front of you in the system. After doing this, he will just stamp the new passport and throw it to you like you throw piece of bread to the Dog. Don’t object about his bad behavior, he is native Saudi and you are expat.
8. He will also write the Iqama number on the stamp. Just check once that iqama number is correct.
9. If everything goes fine, your transfer of information is done. When I did this, it took around 90 minutes.

Passport is Renewed in Native Country

Even if passport is renewed in your native country, you will be allowed to enter to Saudi Arabia. But keep it in mind that you will have to perform this Naqal Maloomat activity before your departure from Saudi Arabia. If you do not do this, you may be facing problems again.

How to check that Naqal Maloomat has been done properly

After doing all this process, you should check at least once before travelling that Naqal Maloomat has been done properly. There are cases when despite of going through all this process, Naqal Maloomat was still not done in the system. As a result of which, passengers had to face real problems.  Jawazat does not perform this function on the airports, so it is a real problem. Please read this article to check if the Naqal Maloomat has been done properly.