For an established companyLMRA
Work permits: issue, renewal and cancellation
Conditions of issue, completion periods, the monthly fee, converting a visit visa, and the cancellation procedure and what follows from it.
Procedural guides
The guide library
Written guides setting out the conditions, documents and period of each procedure before the relevant authority, each reviewed on a stated date.
For an established companyLMRA
The Bahrainisation rate and the work permit ceiling
How the rate for your activity is calculated, how the ceiling shifts as the company grows, and what follows when the rate is not met.
For an established companyLMRA
Cancelling a work permit and transferring a worker
What follows from leaving a permit standing after a worker has left, and the route and conditions for a transfer between employers.
For an established companyMOIC
The commercial registration: renewal and amendment
The annual renewal and what blocks it, the kinds of amendment, and which of them cross into expertise work.
For the investorNPRA
Investor residency and foreign ownership
The limits of foreign ownership in Bahrain, the investor residency route, and how it ties to the registration and the bank account.
For bothNPRA
Dependant and family residency
Who may be brought, the attested documents required, and why a dependant residency lapses with the principal.
For bothNPRA
Visit visas: extension and conversion
Visa periods and extension, conversion into a work permit, and the window after which a visa lapses automatically.
For an established companyIGA
Identity cards for staff
When a card is issued and renewed, how it ties to the permit and the residency, and what a delay costs elsewhere.
For an established companySIO
Social insurance for the company
Opening the company file, registering a Bahraini employee on hiring, and closing the record when service ends.
For an established companyMOL
Employment contracts and their authentication
What a contract must contain, why it is authenticated, and how it bears on the work permit and on labour cases.
For an established companyLMRA
Violations: how they arise and how they are settled
How a violation arises with the authority, what it halts, the route to settling it, and why it is expertise work rather than a routine filing.
For the investorMOIC
Opening a new commercial registration
The route through Sijilat: the trade name, choosing the activity, the legal form, the address, and regulators’ approvals.
For an established companyNPRA
Renewing residency and updating passport details
When residency is renewed and what blocks it, what a new passport requires, and why the records must agree with one another.
For bothMOH
Medical fitness and health licences
Where the medical examination sits in the residency chain, how private insurance bears on the healthcare fee, and renewing professional and facility health licences.
For bothGeneral
Government fees and who pays them
The difference between an authority fee and an office charge, whose name the receipt carries, and why government fees carry no VAT.
For bothGeneral
How to choose a clearing agent
Six practical tests that separate a disciplined office from the rest, from whose name the receipt carries to the limits of the authorisation.
How they are written
How these guides are written
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The source
The requirements as the competent authority publishes them, and the practice the office meets before it in the transactions it handles.
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The scope
A procedure’s conditions, documents and period at the authority. Anything particular to one case is examined separately and answered in writing.
03
Updating
A guide is revisited whenever a condition or a procedure changes, and the date of its last review is stated at the head of its page.
04
The reference
The competent authority is the final reference for any condition or fee. A guide explains the procedure; it does not stand in for the authority.