“So far, the number of residents subscribing to the service exceeded 400,000, which reflects the satisfaction among the owners of private organisations for this service and its importance in helping them to facilitate the process of their sponsored employees,” Dr Khaled bin Abdul Azeez Al Gonaim, CEO of Al Elm Information Security, said in a statement made available to Khaleej Times here.
He said that the company had finished the development of Muqeem services, which include the electronic cancelling of the re-entry visa.
Gonaim explained that cancelling the re-entry visa comes as a continuation and complementary procedure for the issuing process. An option of cancelling the electronic visas issued by Muqeem service is provided and the offer is made available during the validity period.
“The aim is to develop interactive services in the Muqeem system in order to allow the subscribers to electronically process the transactions of their sponsored employees without having to visit any branches of the passport departments,” he said.
He added that it was not possible to cancel a re-entry visa that was issued by one of the branches of the passport department through the Muqeem service.
“It is not possible to cancel a single electronic return visa if the resident who owns the visa is out of the kingdom, and if the period of travel has expired, if the resident has no single electronic return visa or he used the electronic visa,” Gonaim elaborated.
Al Elm is one of the leading companies in the field of electronic government implementations through which several services are presented to the public and private sectors and to individuals.
Gonaim said that Al Elm aims to achieve all aspects of administrative development and speeding up the implementation of the electronic transaction programmes in government sectors because of the importance of these programmes in the movement towards the whole implementation of the e-government in Saudi Arabia.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Habib Shaikh
Quelle/Source: Khaleej Times, 13.12.2007
