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UNHCR Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Help for refugees and asylum-seekers

Announcement

UNHCR Office in Saudi Arabia will be conducting a survey through MINDSET company, for some of the registered individuals with the Office. The survey will run between 24 November and 31 December 2024, and will contain questions concerning education level, skills, work experience, and language proficiency. The survey is not targeted and is only for the purpose of informing UNHCR activities.
Taking part in the survey does not indicate that your file is currently under consideration for a durable solution.
You may receive a call from: +96262221129. If you do not answer the first time, Mindset will contact you again.


Attention

  • Information circulating on online social media platforms that UNHCR is issuing visas to Canada or any other country is NOT VALID.
  • This website is currently the only official source of information on UNHCR activities in Saudi Arabia.
  • ALL services provided by UNHCR, including registration, are FREE and only done through official channels described on this website.
  • Find more information on reporting fraud, abuse and exploitation here

Information specifically for nationals from Myanmar in Saudi Arabia

  • The UNHCR office in Riyadh DOES NOT have a specific resettlement (travel) program for nationals from Myanmar in Saudi Arabia to Canada, the United States, or other countries. Reports of this circulating on online social media platforms are NOT TRUE.
  • UNHCR cannot support with passport or residency renewals.
  • We continue to advise everyone to follow the residency laws and maintain a valid legal status in Saudi Arabia.

ဆော်ဒီအာရေဗျနိုင်ငံက မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသားတွေအတွက် သတင်းအချက်အလက်တွေကတော့

  •  ရီရတ်မြို့ရှိ UNHCR ရုံးတွင် ဆော်ဒီအာရေဗျနိုင်ငံမှ နိုင်ငံသားများအတွက် ကနေဒါ၊ အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု သို့မဟုတ် အခြားနိုင်ငံများအထိ သတ်သတ်မှတ်မှတ် ပြန်လည်အခြေချရေး (ခရီးသွား) အစီအစဉ် မရှိပါ။ အွန်လိုင်း လူမှုမီဒီယာ ပလက်ဖောင်းတွေမှာ ပျံ့နှံ့နေတဲ့ ဒီမှတ်တမ်းတွေဟာ မမှန်ပါဘူး။
  •  UNHCR က ပတ်စပို့ ဒါမှမဟုတ် နေထိုင်မှု အသနားခံချက်တွေနဲ့ မထောက်ပံ့နိုင်ဘူး။
  • နေထိုင်ခွင့်ဥပဒေများကို လိုက်နာရန်နှင့် ဆော်ဒီအာရေဗျတွင် တရားဝင်တရားဝင်အနေအထားကို ထိန်းသိမ်းရန် လူတိုင်းကို ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ဆက်၍အကြံပေးနေပါသည်။

Attention:
A number of fraud cases have been reported through social media, and some people claim they can provide assistance through UNHCR. UNHCR confirms that all procedures are free and are only done through official channels.
For more information click here.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, created thish Help site for refugees and asylum seekers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

Here you will find information about:

About UNHCR in the KSA
Who is UNHCR?
Who falls under UNHCR’s mandate?
What are UNHCR’s activities in the KSA?

Who can seek asylum?
What is the difference between a migrant and a refugee?
Who can seek/apply for asylum?

Registration with UNHCR
What happens after you apply to UNHCR?
Registration process with UNHCR
What are your rights and duties once you are registered with UNHCR?

Resettlement Program
Contact us
Reporting fraud, corruption and sexual exploitation
What is fraud?
How to report corruption by UNHCR or their partners?


FAQs

UNHCR has made every effort to ensure the information contained on this site is accurate. Information will continue to be updated.