The Ministry of Labor has launched a new package of electronic services related to the management of work permits, as part of the Ministry’s strategy to digitally transform services and provide them to the public without using paper in order to achieve excellence in performance, speed of completion and simplification of procedures. The new services include six different requests, including: a request for a work permit, a request for renewing a work license, a request for canceling a work permit, a request for issuing a labor recruitment approval, a request for renewing the validity of a labor recruitment approval, and a request for amending a labor recruitment approval. The new work permit management services provide the opportunity for establishments to submit a work permit application that allows them to secure a vacancy in the labor market from different categories, including the person currently residing in Qatar under the sponsorship of his relatives, or citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, or holders of permanent residence, or investors. The service enables establishments to submit a request to renew a work license and a request to cancel a work license online, without the need to visit the ministry’s headquarters, external offices or government complexes. In order to benefit from the service of renewing a work permit, it is required to have a valid residence permit of at least 3 months, in addition to a certificate of academic qualification, the residence of the employer, a certificate of good conduct, and a certificate of practicing the profession for the professions that you need such as engineering and medical professions, and a letter of approval must be available from The Ministry of Education if the work is related to schools and kindergartens. The service of approving the recruitment of workers provides an opportunity for establishments to submit a request for recruitment approval from the Ministry of Labor, where the employees of the Ministry of Labor study the request and make a decision. Application information for the Ministry of the Interior. It is also possible, within the new service, to submit a request to amend the approval of the recruitment of workers electronically, and then it is decided upon within the procedures followed. Pre-approved recruitment approvals, and not to exceed the number in the original approval. The service also enables establishments to submit a request to renew the validity of approval to recruit workers electronically, and it ends with exporting the request to renew the approval to the Ministry of Interior through the integrated link, without the need to visit the ministry’s headquarters, external offices or government complexes. In order to benefit from the renewal service, it is required that the approval belong to the establishment submitting the request, and the establishment’s registration is effective, and it has no violations of the provisions of the Labor Law, and all previously approved recruitment approvals have not been exhausted, and that the approval is effective and a week or less remains until the end of the visa. The Ministry of Labor has been working within an integrated strategy for the digital transformation of more than 80 services since the launch of the digital transformation unit, based on the agile engineering methodology, which allows the ability to launch new services and updates.
