Saudi passports authority clarifies automatic removal of domestic workers marked 'departed and did not return'

Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Passports has clarified the timeline for automatically removing domestic workers from records under the status of 'departed and did not return.' The clarification came in response to a query from a user about the procedures required to cancel the residency of a domestic worker who left the Kingdom on an exit and re-entry visa and did not return.

The user, posting on the X platform, explained that he had issued an exit and re-entry visa for the domestic worker, who remains outside the Kingdom. He noted that he had canceled the visa and asked how to remove the worker’s residency and delete her from his record.

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The General Directorate of Passports responded that domestic workers are automatically removed from records as 'departed and did not return' six months after the visa’s expiry. Alternatively, a removal request can be submitted via the Absher electronic platform 30 days after the visa expires.

This clarification sets out the required period for removing domestic workers who left Saudi Arabia and did not return during the validity of their exit and re-entry visas.