The number of recruitment visas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lowered last year by 21% to stand at 1, 241,960 job visas while the number of visas approved in 1430/1431H. was 982,420, a decline by 22%. The Director General of Public Relations and Official Spokesman of Ministry of Labor Hattab Bin Saleh Al-Anzi replied in a press briefing to questions on wrong information published by some press media, saying that the number of seasonal visas reached 50,756 in 1428/1429H, while the total number in 1430/1431H was 46, 926, a decline by 8%. Al-Anzi noted that recruitment of house workers amounted to 496,092 without decline, while recruitment of government agencies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia declined by 14% over the same period, adding that the total number of workers approved for the transfer of their services at the level of the Kingdom through labor offices was 57, 168 , a decline of 48% .