Iqama Status Green Red Yellow an its meaning

Workers might have been confused regarding the Iqama status color coding like red, green and yellow and what are they representing? Good news because the kingdom is already providing a flat form that will simplify all our needs. They launched a website just to address this issue.

Green Iqama Status

This means that your sponsor is complying the labor code or labor law and that you are very legal to work inside the kingdom without fear from the authorities.

Red Iqama status

This means that your sponsor is not complying the labor code or labor law and that your sponsor must go to the labor ministry and fix whatever legal things that needs to be done in accordance with the labor law before it can affect your job and to avoid possible deportation.

Yellow green Iqama Status

This color code is sometimes misleading and people saw it as green and just seat, wait and pretending nothing to worry about. But I think they are wrong, yellow green simply means that your sponsor is already started the procedures for the labor code and sooner or later yellow Green will turned to green if things from the labor ministry will go as planned.

How to check iqama status?

You can now check the status of your iqama online by vesting the ministry of labor website. The website is in Arabic format but you need not to worry because you just simply type in your iqama number followed by captcha security and you’re done, the results will then appear on the right bottom of the website.