Moving from Saudi Arabia
Dear All,
I am moving from Saudi Arabia to Qatar in around a month on final exit. I am planning to bring my car Toyota Corolla over to Qatar. Appreciate if someone could provide his experience in this regard.
Some questions I have:
1. For how many days am I able to drive the car on export plates in Saudi Arabia and then in Qatar.
2. After cancelling the number plates, am I good for final exit or the car will still appear under my iqama in the MOI system.
3. I have Qatar employment visa at the moment and I have been told that residency permit processing will take a month. Am I allowed to drive the car on export plates in Qatar during that time on the basis of passport. I have Saudi driving license.
4. After obtaining final exit, am I allowed to drive through the land border between Saudi Arabia and Qatar or should I have the car transported through mover and take flight myself.
5. Contact of any good mover company.
Any other advice will be highly appreciated.
I did the same with my car coming from the UAE. From what I know, without an RP, you are allowed do drive your car here, but you must keep it parked until you have it insured and registered, for which you need your RP and ID. That said, when I crossed the border at Abu Samra, I was asked to pay an import tax and insurance for a month. I was told that the month of insurance would allow me to drive the vehicle for one month. Three weeks into that month, Traffic HQ told me a different story. They told me that even with that month of insurance, I was not allowed to drive the vehicle around Qatar and that if police pulled me over, I could pay a fine and have the vehicle impounded until the proper registration was completed. You should drive your car across the border. I had to pay about 250 dirhams for export papers at the UAE border, 400 Saudi Rials to a Saudi "official" (which may have been good ol' fashioned graft), and then what I paid at the Qatari border.