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Will your passport expire before your ikamet renewal?
Enter three dates. We'll tell you whether to renew the passport first.
The rule, in plain English
Law 6458, Article 23: a residence permit cannot be issued for longer than your passport's validity minus 60 days. Your renewal application also has its own window — it can only be filed inside the 60 days before your current ikamet expires. These two rules combine in ways that aren't spelled out on the e-ikamet portal.
The calculator above takes your dates and walks them through both rules at once. If your passport renewal needs to come first, it will say so — and tell you which weeks of which month to act in. If you're clear, it will tell you the soonest date the portal will accept your renewal and the day after which you'll start facing fines.