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Getting Over Huroob & Sponsorship System Print E-mail
By Ali Shah | Saudi Life
Monday, 25 July 2011 00:00

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I RECEIVE so many cases of people complaining that their sponsors reported them and put "Huroob" on their iqama status, that it has started to make me sick. Huroob means RUNAWAY. The charge is that the expatriate worker "ran away" from his sponsor and is living somewhere in Saudi Arabia "illegally".

I find Huroob to be a case of a law that has been wrongly exploited like the sponsorship system itself, which is the major problem expatriates face in Saudi Arabia.

 
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