Saudi Arabia is too big to figure out on your own. A rule that applies in Riyadh might be enforced completely differently in a smaller town in the Eastern Province. The fees for dependents keep changing, the Saudization quotas shift, and making a mistake with your Iqama status is incredibly expensive. Saudi Arabia WhatsApp groups are basically survival lines for South Asian workers trying to navigate all this. You will see a driver in Jeddah asking if his sponsor can legally hold his exit visa. Someone else posting about a heavy equipment operator job in Neom that pays on time. Accommodation leads in Dammam. It is endless. Because the country is shifting so fast right now, old advice is usually bad advice. You need the current reality. Join groups specific to your city or your trade, like safety engineers or retail managers. City-wide groups with ten thousand people across different links are mostly just garbage job ads from unregistered agents.
