The Directorate General of Passports (DGP) has begun a text messaging awareness campaign requesting citizens and residents to have their female employees fingerprinted and get their vital signs checked in order for them to be registered.

The DGP further said that the registration is mandatory and that sponsors will have to ensure that their household workers have been fingerprinted before they can carry out any transaction.

The DGP has facilitated the process by having passport offices in all major cities and towns in the Kingdom offer the registration service.

Fingerprinting and checking of vital signs of female employees was first introduced on Mar. 31, 2012.