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Post by melt on Apr 17, 2018 17:51:30 GMT
Hi, my husband has received an offer from Aramco for family status. We will be moving from the UK. I have been reading lots of really helpful info on the forum but I'm still unsure as to what happens when my husband arrives. Can we all arrive at the same time as him? Do we have to wait for him to apply for our Visas? How long might this take? Does he have to complete his probation? Do we have to move within a certain timescale to keep family status?
Id love us all to move together as the thought of being left at home with 3 little ones for any length of time is not great!!
Please let me know the timescales that you experienced with regard to moving your family to KSA
Thanks in advance
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Post by reba on Apr 17, 2018 20:29:17 GMT
Hi All, I would love to know as well how long it takes approximately for the family to join after spouse has landed in KSA. My husband is due to fly out end of April. We will be coming from Canada.
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Post by swan on Apr 18, 2018 4:23:01 GMT
I've known families all arrive at the same time, but in most cases the employee comes out first. And it's probably not a bad way. Yes, it's hard work being left in the UK with young kids, and a house to pack up, car to sell etc. Someone has commented very recently that coming out alone has allowed him to sort out car, banking, lie of land, internet, phone etc etc - there is a lot to sort Saudi end too.
My husband came from the UK, and we followed 3 months later - he needed to get a resident permit (iqama), and then request family visit visas for the rest of us, which we converted to iqamas once we'd landed. I suspect this could have been quicker, but we caught both sets of Eid between him landing and us getting there, which slows things down.
And anyway, if it means avoiding being in Saudi July/Aug/Sept don't come out with him! It is crazy hot, and you'd be better coming later in the year when it's a more reasonable temperature.
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Post by vpainter on Apr 29, 2018 19:02:37 GMT
Families coming with the employee or following afterward is country specific. Sometimes its a KSA or a company rule, other times it is a rule of the country of origin.
There are employees who come with their families.
There are employees who come first and once here and the employee has their resident vias and iqama (this can take 2 to 3 weeks - a part of the 3 months), then they can submit paperwork for their family’s visas. This usually takes 3 to 6 months, it can be a shorter time and rarely longer.. As swan says, it is very helpful for the employee to come first and get things set up for his family.
There are employees who have to complete the probationary period and then they can apply for their family’s visas.
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Post by derecwart on Jul 16, 2018 12:28:32 GMT
vpainter wrote
There are employees who have to complete the probationary period and then they can apply for their family’s visas.
Does this mean that there are sometimes no choice for family to move prior/after 90 days? Or this depends on contract I have been offered?
Can you please tell if I can have option to bring family after 7-9 months period? Is that allowable? Any issues I or my family might interact?
Thanks
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Post by yycjor on Sept 19, 2022 20:24:07 GMT
o, last comment on this thread was in 2018 so I'm wondering what is the avee timeline for family to join nowadays .
If details are important, I'm coming from Canada as an engineer on a family status.
I think registering with SCE will add couple of weeks comparing to the other profissions.
Thanks in advance
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Post by BlueStaff on Sept 20, 2022 2:53:57 GMT
The SCE registration is (or was in 2014) a simple online process. From memory I had to pay 2000 SAR to join, and have renewed 1 time since.
They will give you a SADAD (Bank payment) reference which has to be paid online or in the bank. There is a branch of SNB / Al Alli in Dhahran camp you can use or as I did a colleague paid it for me.
Just be sure you have your attested degree and any other relevant certificates such as marriage, birth etc. available, soft copy and hard copy. available, soft copy and hard copy.
Its classic chicken and egg - no SCE means no Iqama. No Iqama means no Bank account, but Aramco will pay your salary to your home country account till you get everything fixed. You just will have to live on cash till then.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2022 5:51:16 GMT
The SCE process for me took a month, the first SADAD payment disappeared and I ended up losing 250SAR in the process that i've never had back! In the end I actually got my Iqama before the SCE piece finished.... Took 7 weeks in total and I had all the docs ready in place. Was during covid so may have been a worse turnaround.
You'll still get paid, open an offshore USD account before you come here and use that. Or if you have to, your existing one back home, but that may open you to tax implications.
Getting the yellow slip afterwards took another month of faffing around, back home the process another month too. Totally took 5 months for visas to be issued, family came out 6 months later to align with schooling. Hope that helps.
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Post by yycjor on Sept 20, 2022 17:07:52 GMT
Thanks BlueStaff and @mcshane -Any tips or advise to minimize this time. Leaving my wife with 4 kids behind is a heavy left for my wife so I'm eager to shorten this period as short as possiible. -Regarding marriage certificate, ASC confirmed that getting the marriage certificate attested from Ottawa is sufficient but I read in this forum that in order to avoid issues in KSA I should attest M. ceritificate from where it was originally issued which in my case isn't Canada or otherwise it will be up to the clerk mood in that day. |
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Post by flames on Sept 20, 2022 17:18:48 GMT
Thanks BlueStaff and @mcshane -Any tips or advise to minimize this time. Leaving my wife with 4 kids behind is a heavy left for my wife so I'm eager to shorten this period as short as possiible. -Regarding marriage certificate, ASC confirmed that getting the marriage certificate attested from Ottawa is sufficient but I read in this forum that in order to avoid issues in KSA I should attest M. ceritificate from where it was originally issued which in my case isn't Canada or otherwise it will be up to the clerk mood in that day. Marriage certificate should be attested in the country it was issued. In my case it was first in the ministry of foreign affairs in the country marriage certificate was issued, then in KSA embassy in the same country. We didnt do this attestation ourselves, but used an agency suggested by RA. This is reimbursable. Also, we did attest a birth certificate of our child who was born outside of Canada, just in case, since some folks in this forum mentioned that they were asked for it. We used the same agency. This one is not reimbursable, we paid from our own pocket. |
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Post by kyle1639 on Sept 20, 2022 17:46:24 GMT
Thanks BlueStaff and @mcshane -Any tips or advise to minimize this time. Leaving my wife with 4 kids behind is a heavy left for my wife so I'm eager to shorten this period as short as possiible. -Regarding marriage certificate, ASC confirmed that getting the marriage certificate attested from Ottawa is sufficient but I read in this forum that in order to avoid issues in KSA I should attest M. ceritificate from where it was originally issued which in my case isn't Canada or otherwise it will be up to the clerk mood in that day. I was the same, the thought of leaving my wife with two kids was a heavy thought, to the point I felt sick most days. But having marraige certificates attested before coming will save the most time. Be sure to take original copies of all birth certificates too so they can be translated here for family visa. Also have your degree attested too before coming. This will all be submitted to al-fifa once you have your iqama. I had my iqama in three weeks, and submitted my family visa application to al-fifa after 25 days of being in Kingdom, translation and attestation was done within 3 weeks and I was lucky to get an appointment the following day after I got my family visa application package, and got a guy in a good mood at the Istiqdam office. I'd made the wrong payment in SADAD for the family visa, but he helped me correct this by requesting the refund and making the correct one. I had the family visa/yellow slip in 6 weeks of arrival to the Kingdom, and my family were with me two weeks later (could have been sooner but I had to arrange vacation leave to travel back to the UK for them). |
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Post by yycjor on Sept 20, 2022 17:51:04 GMT
Thanks BlueStaff and @mcshane -Any tips or advise to minimize this time. Leaving my wife with 4 kids behind is a heavy left for my wife so I'm eager to shorten this period as short as possiible. -Regarding marriage certificate, ASC confirmed that getting the marriage certificate attested from Ottawa is sufficient but I read in this forum that in order to avoid issues in KSA I should attest M. ceritificate from where it was originally issued which in my case isn't Canada or otherwise it will be up to the clerk mood in that day. I was the same, the thought of leaving my wife with two kids was a heavy thought, to the point I felt sick most days. But having marraige certificates attested before coming will save the most time. Be sure to take original copies of all birth certificates too so they can be translated here for family visa. Also have your degree attested too before coming. This will all be submitted to al-fifa once you have your iqama. I had my iqama in three weeks, and submitted my family visa application to al-fifa after 25 days of being in Kingdom, translation and attestation was done within 3 weeks and I was lucky to get an appointment the following day after I got my family visa application package, and got a guy in a good mood at the Istiqdam office. I'd made the wrong payment in SADAD for the family visa, but he helped me correct this by requesting the refund and making the correct one. I had the family visa/yellow slip in 6 weeks of arrival to the Kingdom, and my family were with me two weeks later (could have been sooner but I had to arrange vacation leave to travel back to the UK for them). kyle1639I have all of my documents already translated so I hope that will save me some time, but not sure what attestation is required in KSA? is this something I can speed up? |
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Post by yycjor on Sept 20, 2022 17:56:44 GMT
flameshave you ended up in need for the birth certificate attested?
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Post by flames on Sept 20, 2022 18:19:05 GMT
flameshave you ended up in need for the birth certificate attested? Not traveled to KSA yet, waiting for visa. Will find out in couple of weeks, hopefully. |
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Post by kyle1639 on Sept 21, 2022 17:46:43 GMT
flameshave you ended up in need for the birth certificate attested? Your dependents birth certificates (original copies) will be required for translation here in Kingdom. Then sent back to home country embassy for stamping the visas into passport |
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