At least 3 months before dispatching the first consignment of any type of motor vehicles in any year.
The manufacturer must send to SASO a Motor Vehicles Conformity Certificate in English or Arabic for its approval. Individuals must obtain this certificate from the manufacturer prior to the shipment of any car for their personal use in the Kingdom.

• There should not damages on the vehicle body. If the damage occurs at the arrival port, a certificate from the competent authorities is required to be submitted accordingly.
• If any motor vehicles that have been subject to accidents such as drowning, fire, collision, rollover, etc are not allowed to be imported.
• The vehicles used as taxicab or by police are not allowed to be imported.
• The importer’s residence authorization (Iqama) shall be valid, if the importer is not a citizen of any of the GCC states.
• There is no permit to import more than one vehicle per year, if the importer does not have a commercial registration legalizing business activity in vehicle sale and import.
• Competent Agency issued the Export form (Traffic Department) in the country where the vehicle registered, or a quittance document along with a valid vehicle ownership document issued by the competent authorities in the exporting country of the vehicle, if it is secondhand.

• The original copy of the statistical customs declaration sealed with the clearance seal of the exporting country including all required information and the amount of the customs duty subject to the clearance.
• The original copy of the import declaration of the first entry port in the exporting country or an attested copy of it.

• Submit a legal document indicating the importer’s ownership of the vehicle. This document shall be attested by the Saudi commercial attaché or his duly authorized representative in the country where the vehicle purchased, or by the chamber of commerce in the exporting country.
• Export declaration of the customs administration in the country from which the vehicle exported. The invoice and the certificate of origin shall be attached to the export declaration.