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Jordan requires security cards for Syrian workers to obtain work permits
Jordan’s Ministry of Labour confirmed that Syrian workers must obtain work permits and pay the full fees, with a security card issued by the Ministry of Interior serving as a prerequisite. The requirement comes weeks before the December 1 deadline for regularizing the status of foreign workers.
Jordan’s Ministry of Labour has made obtaining a “security card” issued by the Ministry of Interior a basic requirement for Syrian workers to receive work permits. The ministry confirmed that they must obtain the permits and pay the full fees to work legally in the Jordanian labour market.
Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Al-Zyoud said in comments carried by the Ammon news agency and Jordanian newspapers and websites, including Al-Rai and Gerasa, that a work permit cannot be issued without the card. He explained that a Syrian worker applying for a permit for the first time, who entered the Kingdom before October 1, 2026, may pay a lump sum of 500 dinars for the entire preceding period and then obtain a new permit at the new fee rates.
Deadline ends on December 1
This comes as the deadline approaches for the “legalization and regularization of status” of non-Jordanian workers approved by the Cabinet, which ends on December 1, 2026. Haitham Al-Najdawi, director of the ministry’s Inspection Directorate, said that a worker who entered the country for a purpose other than work and later joined the labour market may pay 500 dinars for all previous years and obtain a permit, with a full waiver of fines imposed by the ministries of Labour and Interior. Other workers in violation, including domestic workers, may pay half the permit fee for each previous year.
Al-Najdawi warned that an employer who employs a worker in violation faces a fine of at least 800 dinars, along with an order to deport the worker. He said that every worker who fails to regularize their status before the deadline will have a “deportation flag” placed on electronic systems starting January 1, 2027.
318,000 registered Syrian refugees
According to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as of November 1, 2026, Jordan hosts more than 341,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers. Syrians account for about 318,000 of them, or 93.3 percent. Some 78.5 percent of those registered live outside the camps, while Zaatari camp houses about 43,000 refugees and Azraq camp about 30,000.
UNHCR data showed that the number of work permits issued to Syrian refugees in Jordan fell by 64.9 percent during the first half of 2026, to 12,546 permits from 35,702 during the same period in 2025.
Photo credits: Al-Dustour, AFP
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