Originally Posted by
mutt
Company will reimburse your fees as you need a exit visa to fly, but you will have to pay for your families exit visas. In theory the cost of a 12 month exit visa has changed from 1000 SAR to 2300 SAR.
If you are actually allowed to keep your kids outside for 12 months, this would actually be cheaper than having to fly them back every 6 months to renew their visas, so in a round about way, the new system might actually be cheaper for some!
Really? Cost of 12 month single exit/re-entry visa was 200 sr, from now 12 month single exit-reentry visa will cost 1200 sr. So extra 1000 sr per year/kid staying outside.
Visa renewal (holiday) run to KSA is covered by yearly domicile ticket (except airport taxes).
On the other hand now you will be able to issue exit/re-entry visa for longer period until iqama validity date so visa/iqama run can be once in two years.