General Directorate of Passports

Functions

• To implement the rules, regulations, decisions and directives on organizing the entry, exit, residence and sponsorship of expatriates according to the functions specified for the Ministry of interior.

• To implement the conventions of the international, regional and bi-lateral agreements regarding the entry and exit of non Qataris.

• To provide administrative and technical supervision for all departments under the General Directorate as required.

• To suggest legislations and plans for the development of the work in a way that will achieve the public benefit.

• To prepare studies, statistics and reports concerned with expatriates' affairs and other concerned fields and to suggest suitable recommendations.

• To express opinion and suggestions in the issues related to the entry, exit, residence and sponsorship of expatriates.

• To prepare special studies and recommendations related to recruitment affairs.

• To supervise on training the staffers at the General Directorate and departments under it in coordination with competent authorities.

• To simplify the completion of transactions in coordination with concerned authorities.

• To propose ways of conciliation on law violators (according to the law) in the boundaries if its specialization and to collect the conciliation amount.

• To propose the annual budget for the General Directorate and the departments under it .

• To carry out any other mission entrusted by the concerned authority .