I am writing with regard to the post "No fault of their own" (Oct. 29) which deals with the article "Dead end for many expats as amnesty deadline looms" by Somayya Jabarti (Oct. 27). Expatriates are really interested in rectifying their residential and work status, but the officials in government offices are too slow in processing applications. In the end, who will suffer? The answer is that it will be the poor expatriate worker who spent all his savings to buy a Saudi visa to earn a little for his family. If the media, social activists, and those government officials with brains are all saying that another extension of the amnesty period is needed, then it should be done. The question is: Do you want people to rectify their status or to suffer? Usman, Online response II. Individual Saudi sponsors who sold visas for thousands of riyals have now left expats helpless. Those expatriates who arrived in the Kingdom six month ago have no option but to rectify their status as their sponsor is in the red category and never issued them with their first iqama. Muhammad Irfan, Online response
