‘Runaways’can leave after fingerprinting

Workers who have been registered as runaways, or "huroob", can still leave the Kingdom provided their biometrics prove that they are legal.
Mohammad Al-Saadi, an Egyptian who has been working in the country for the last nine years, has spoken out against the ill-treatment he has endured for years at the hands of his sponsor.
“Nobody can imagine the magnitude of my suffering because of my sponsor,” who he described as mean, exploiting people under his sponsorship who he had allowed to work for others.
The sponsor would not pay Al-Saadi his wages and reported him to authorities as a runaway worker. As a result, he was not able to leave Saudi Arabia for a long time, even being deprived of attending his mother’s funeral.
Al-Saadi tried to get the charges against him dismissed through different means and even resorted to paying money to have the order dropped but was unsuccessful.
Hattab Al-Anazi, the Ministry of Labor's spokesman, warned against the practice in a statement made by a fellow spokesperson. “Workers should not be deceived by claims of being able to rescind the order in return for money. The reversal of such a decision is at the discretion of MoL officials in order to allow individuals to legalize their status.”