{"id":111217,"date":"2017-08-10T06:31:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T10:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=111217"},"modified":"2017-08-15T08:48:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:48:19","slug":"saudi-starts-to-remove-illegal-expats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/10\/saudi-starts-to-remove-illegal-expats\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi starts removing illegal expats"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111218\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/750px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111218\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/750px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg_.png\" alt=\"The campaign contains fines, imprisonment, and deportation if illegal expats didn\u2019t meet the documents in the given grace period. (Photo by wikimedia commons, CC0)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/750px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg_.png 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/750px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg_-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The campaign contains fines, imprisonment, and deportation if illegal expats didn\u2019t meet the documents in the given grace period. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=27000408\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by wikimedia commons, CC0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has started pulling out illegal expatriates after the government granted them a 90-day amnesty period to voluntarily leave the kingdom before the 24th of July.<\/p>\n<p>It has been estimated that around 600,000 people responded to the given pardon of correcting their status and leave the country without penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign contains fines, imprisonment, and deportation if illegal expats didn\u2019t meet the documents in the given grace period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolators who don\u2019t initiate correcting their status and get detained will be subject to enforcing the rules and regulations of the labor law and residency system,\u201d Lt. Col. Talal Al-Shalhoub, spokesman of the General Directorate of Passports (GDP), told Arab News last march of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Workers can reenter the country if they fall in with the legal methods.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is currently the largest country that has significant number of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), and has huge Filipino population in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Arabia Authorities haven\u2019t released estimated number of \u201cviolators\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, a campaign reciprocally took place to legalize the status of undocumented workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has started pulling out illegal expatriates after the government granted them a 90-day amnesty period to voluntarily leave &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[20963,20962,20964],"class_list":["post-111217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-general-directorate-of-passports-gdp","tag-illegal-expatriates","tag-a-nation-without-violators","mauthors-michealina-vallarta-david","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}