I have a female friend who has been an illegal resident for nearly 6 months as she has run away from her sponsor’s house where she was working as a maid.
Now, she would like to process her visa to legalize it. Is It possible? What are the requirements?
She doesn’t have her civil ID, and is not sure if her sponsor has filed a case against her or cancelled her Visa 20.
How much money is required to legalize her stay, considering that a new sponsor would like to employ her as a maid?

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Answer: You friend has got herself into a lot of trouble and money is not the question at the moment but the case which most likely must have been filed by her sponsor.
The best thing she can do is first find out if her sponsor has filed a case against her and if he has, convince him to drop it.
Either way, whether the sponsor drops the case or not, she has to report to a police station and surrender herself.
Here, to avoid being detained, she should take her old and new sponsors with her. The new sponsor should stand as ‘guarantor’ and she will be released. After that all the formalities of paying the fine for illegal stay and transferring the residence can be done The fine is KD 2 per day with a maximum of KD 600.