RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s Premium Residency Heart has authorised 3,484 private-sector entities whose workers might qualify for the Particular Expertise Premium Residency, offered they meet this system’s eligibility necessities, Okaz newspaper reported.
The Particular Expertise product targets high-caliber professionals in scientific, administrative and analysis fields whose abilities and expertise will help strengthen native capabilities and promote data switch.
Holders of the Particular Expertise Premium Residency obtain a variety of common advantages, together with the precise to reside in Saudi Arabia with their households — masking dad and mom, spouses and kids below the age of 25 — freedom to maneuver between employers, exemption from expatriate and dependent charges, visa-free exit and re-entry, issuance of go to visas for kin, and entry to devoted lanes for Saudi and GCC residents at ports of entry.
Further advantages embrace the power for spouses and kids to work within the personal sector and transfer between employers, conduct business actions in step with the Funding Legislation, and personal and profit from actual property.
Particular advantages embrace eligibility for everlasting premium residency upon assembly necessities and exemption of the principal residency holder from the Nitaqat program.
Eligibility standards apply to 2 major tracks: researchers and scientific or well being abilities, and scientific or well being professionals. For the researchers and scientific or well being abilities observe, candidates should have an employment contract with an authorised entity in a precedence specialization, earn a minimal month-to-month wage of SR14,000, maintain not less than a bachelor’s diploma, have greater than three years of related expertise, meet the minimal factors threshold, submit a suggestion letter from their employer, and supply three analysis papers in a associated discipline.
For the scientific and well being professionals observe, necessities embrace an employment contract with an authorised entity in a precedence specialization, a minimal month-to-month wage of SR35,000, a bachelor’s diploma or larger, greater than three years of related expertise, assembly the minimal factors threshold, and a suggestion letter from the employer.



