OFWs should not use the backdoor exit in order to speed up their repatriation to the Philippines. What do we mean by backdoor exit? Why do some Filipinos use the backdoor exit? How is backdoor exit taking place? Why should OFWs avoid using the backdoor exit?

Backdoor exit or backdoor deportation is an illegal way of deporting OFWs. An OFW who likes to take the backdoor exit and be deported back to Philippines will change his/her Christian name to a Muslim name. Since there is a yearly repatriation amnesty to those overstaying after Umra and Hajj, OFWs will pretend to be overstayers as well.

OFWs will be lured to go to Jeddah and stay under the Khandara overpass in hopes of being deported by the local authorities together with other foreign nationals. The selling point by fixers here is that if local authorities arrest them for overstaying or not having their iqamas or national identification cards, they would be deported.

Those taking the backdoor exit are usually Filipinos who are either runaway from employers or those who have issues against laws. Runaways usually prefer the backdoor exit rather than the legal process or arrangement. It is because they fear that immigration officials will return them to their employers, their employers may take them back or their employers will force them to pay before issuing exit visas.

Fixers, who are mostly Filipinos, usually charge stranded nationals around 1,200 – 1,600 riyals or approximately P16,000 and above to process their exit from Saudi Arabia.

While many may have been deported successfully this way before, this may not be the same case now. It will now be nearly impossible to sneak out from the border of KSA since they have tightened their deportation process because of many cases of expatriates getting away after committing crimes in the kingdom.

The sad reality is that even some Filipinos don’t prefer the backdoor exit, they are left with no option but to patronize the procedure. It is because there are numerous cases that the embassy or consulate are doing nothing at all. Some embassy officials are even urging some OFWs to go through the backdoor instead.

Despite the high risk of being caught, some OFWs still prefer to use the backdoor. But Filipinos should not resort to this procedure anymore. The KSA authorities already know the legit Muslims who came from Umra or Hajj against those who are pretending only.

Please circulate this modus operandi to others. Don’t deal with fixers and follow the legal process and proper channel of getting repatriated no matter how tedious the process is because it is still the best way. Fixers won’t be able to give help in anyway anymore. Our government, embassies and consulate should do something to put an end to these fixers and their modus operandi.

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