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Bahrain to Saudi for a few days - what's the procedure?

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Hi - I have to go to get some papers from Samba Bank in Khobar. I am an Iqama holder, but reside in Bahrain. I have BeAware app which shows I have been vaccinated in Bahrain (December) together with Saudi Tataman and Tawakkalna apps, but they will not show "green shield" if I want to enter any commercial premises. My understanding is that I will need to quarantine somewhere for 2 days, take another PCR test in Dammam (on top of the one in BH needed to cross the causeway) and then I will have the OK on my Saudi apps to enter banks, malls etc.
Can anyone confirm if this is the case?

XTang

Answered on your other post:

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.p … 03#5083249

Discard Tatamann app.   Only Tawakkalna is used.   Bahrain vaccination is not considered in Saudi.   Send an email to 937 and ask them to update your health passport in Tawakkalna (send vaccination certificate, passport copy, iqama copy, bahrain cpr copy).  And don't expect any thing to happen quick.....I have been waiting for almost 1.5 months for this.  It's painful getting rid of the blue status after every trip back from Bahrain.

To get it to turn green, self quarantine for 48 hours, book a covid test and if negative, it will turn green.  Sometimes it takes a while to turn green and sometimes, with technical issues, it never turns green until the whole week has passed.

One short cut, which a lot of people do, take a screen shot of the page with the green bar and show it on entry.  In majority of the cases, no one checks closely and it works.  But it is a risk and won't work for you since you don't have a green status to begin with - as you live in Bahrain.

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