A committee from Jeddah's Passports Department's Expatriates Division, in cooperation with the Egyptian Consulate here, has been working on issuing exit passes for 400 Egyptians who entered the country on Umrah visas and overstayed for Haj. The overstayers, who gathered last month in front of their consulate demanding to be deported, are going through fingerprinting and eye identification systems before being deported. A spokesman for the Passports Department said the Egyptian consulate had cooperated with the Saudi authorities. He said that fingerprinting and eye identification systems were part of the Kingdom's regulations for all overstayers. This allowed the authorities to identify anyone who may be wanted in other, possibly criminal matters, but who had wanted to flee the country by being deported.
