The Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship was granted a month's time from the time residents resided abroad to the country to renew their expired residences after the first of last March, while it gave a period of three months for citizens and citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council to renew their expired identity cards, as well as a three-month deadline to renew expired residencies after The first of last March, for residents who are inside the country, without imposing any fines.
The spokesman for the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship, Brigadier General Khamis Al-Kaabi, said that the decisions issued by the Council of Ministers last March regarding the extension of residencies, entry permits and ID cards until next December, which came in conjunction with the measures taken regionally and internationally, to address the Covid 19 virus. He has to close the airspace, it has been updated, indicating that the different groups of society have been given an appropriate period to settle their conditions and initiate the renewal of their residencies whenever they ended after the first of last March.
Al-Kaabi stressed that no fines will be calculated on the auditors, except after the expiry of the deadline granted to each category to renew their residencies or their expired ID cards, calling on individuals to initiate to settle their status before the expiry of the period.