The Travel Ban Order Does Not Prevent the Deportation of Expats

A travel ban order imposed against an expatriate employee does not preclude his deportation, in accordance with a recent revision to the Judicial Implementation Law.

The Al-Watan daily claims that the law has been altered in this regard. It stated: “The execution of the deportation order will not be hampered by the issuance of the travel ban order, in accordance with Paragraph 1 of this article.”

Before the change, Article 46 of the legislation read as follows: “If an insolvent fails either to execute the order to make payment of a debt or to disclose what he has of sufficient funds to pay the debt, within a period of five days from the date of informing the debtor of the implementation order, or from the date on which the decision is published in one of the newspapers about the default of payment, then the debtor is seen as procrastinating and the implementation order shall be deemed to have been,

As a result, there was a conflict between the implementation and deportation decisions because the deportation decision was put on hold until the person’s travel ban was revoked, which typically happens only after the person makes good on their obligation to pay the defaulted amount.

According to lawyer and legal expert Abdul Karim Al-Shammari, the original version of the article violated both peoples’ rights and the need to maintain the peace. He noted that the law has been altered regularly over time and that the lawmaker, acting in his authority, prioritized maintaining public order over other factors.

Since the application claims significant sums that are not consistent with the expat’s financial stability, some of the financial bonds that their owners first filed to the Implementation Courts were made up. The court will decide whether to enforce the order against the debtor when the applicant satisfies the necessary requirements in this regard, taking into account the possibility that the petitioner’s claim was the consequence of a commercial cover-up between the two parties.