Which Payroll I should be ?

You are paid according to the passport you hold. If you have a UK passport, you can get on the UK payroll.

Thank you GroveWanderer and VPainter for your prompt reply and help.
Thank you for your clarification.

I do have settled life here in the UK as I did purchased a property, My son have british citizenship, and have been living in the UK for a while. I even studied here, and graduated from the UK.

Dear Grovewander, can I please kindly when should I request to be moved on the UK payroll ? should I wait for Aramco to come back with an offer ? or tell the recruiter down in London ?
thanks a lot in advance for your help
regards
Fatma

Dear All,
I have spoken yesterday with my recruiter in London, and she confirmed that I'll be on the UK Payroll, no matter which passport I hold as I have been recruited in the UK, and have enough experience and educational here.
However, since I do not have a British passport for the moment, she told me that the only difference will be the point of repatriation, which would be in North Africa until I provide them with a copy of my British passport once i get it.
I should be receiving my offer in the coming day hopefully.
thanks again for both your input

Ask your recruiter to check that. According to the Pound Sterling IR Manual:



Since you already stated that you have permanent residency in the UK and you are being hired on the UK payroll, your point of origin should be in the UK, regardless of whether you have a UK passport or not.

Of course, if you do get a UK passport that would remove all doubt.

Sister Fatma
Assalamu Alaikum
Good luck with your move, one thing I shall advise you on is to be aware that you plan to visit the UK before completing two years working abroad otherwise your residency will be invalid. If this happened then you must apply again for it which is nightmare nowadays.

The other thing you might face difficulty to obtain the KSA working visa since you do not have a British passport. Of course, this is depending on your current nationality. I believe since you have UK residency it might not be too difficult to have the British passport.

I would strongly recommend you to apply to obtain a British passport as soon as you can. You might get it before you come your paperwork with Aramco because you will find out the recruitment process takes few months.

In my case, I received my first offer at 2nd July 2012 and started with Aramco on 5th October 2012. Some others take longer and few shorter period between the offer and the departure.

I wish you the best of luck and let me know if you need more help.

With the one obvious exception, I have not heard of anyone being refused a visa based on nationality, although I do recall a time after the Gulf War when various nationalities were not allowed in (Yemenis, for instance). I don't know whether those restrictions are still in place.

Saudi Arabia has expatriates from almost every part of the globe, and as far as I know there is no problem with North African countries. I know of people from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt who work here, for instance. Although I don't know of any Libyans, I'm not aware of them not being allowed in.

Based on the extract from the Pound Sterling IR manual that I quoted earlier, I'm not quite sure why they're still insisting on setting your point of origin as Algeria.

The only thing I can see that might be an impediment, is that any change of PoO from the new hire's country of origin must be approved by the Administrator, Expatriate Employment Division.

If that is what is holding up the change, you might be able to ask the department that is hiring you, to intercede on your behalf to get the approval.

It would be better to get it changed before getting here if at all possible, because if you want to change it after you arrive, it then requires permission from the Director of Personnel.