The legal existence of Syrian in Jordan is subject to the memorandum of understanding signed between Jordan from one side and UNHCR from the other side in April 1998 and then memorandum forms the political frame of the existence of the Syrian refugees. This memorandum states on commitment of Jordan towards the standards of international protection for refugees.

The cost of agricultural work permit is about 13 JOD and they are paid for charges and stamps.
While the cost of issuing the constructional work permit is about 54 JOD which are also for charges and stamps and this amount include a part that goes to a private insurance company that pays compensation in case the worker face a work injury.

Yes, the Syrian workers are subject to the Jordanian labor law thus they are allowed to subscribe in social security institution and they also have the right to withdraw the accruals of social security at the end of their work or any time you want to do so unlike the Jordanian workers who only have the right to withdraw their accruals after the end of their work.

Yes, it's allowed for the Syrians to apply with a request to issue residency in Jordan if the Syrian was an investor whether from category A or category B.

No- Any documents issued from Coalition or the Interim Government or directorates related to them don’t get accepted whether they were study certificates or civil statements or marriage certificates or family records and thus no Syrian has a right to use or benefit from these documents.

The Jordanian law doesn’t admit any marriage unless its contract was written in front of one of the religious court in Jordan and any procedure outside the frame of the court is regarded illegal and requires accountability. Consequently resorting to the marriage contract in its form that is popular in Syria through a religious person or what is called the customary marriage in Syria outside the court is a crime according to the Jordanian law. And the penalty of such marriage is a fine of 1000 JOD and one to three months in prison for the parties of the contract, the witnesses and the religious person.

No, the Jordanian project didn't concentrate on this incident as it only punishes on the customary marriage that occurred on the Jordanian land, thus the Syrians who brought children and got marriage in Syria before coming to Jordan has the right to go to the competent Jordanian judiciary to register their marriage and the parentage of this children and shall not fear the punishment of customary marriage as long as the contract with originally written outside Jordan.

Each Syrian has the right to raise his claim in front of the Magistrate Court and he can follow his claim by himself whether he was legally or illegally present on the Jordanian land and whether he has a work permit or not provided that the amount of money he is claiming isn’t more than 1000 JOD and in case he is claim an amount of money that is more than 1000 JOD, he will have to get a lawyer to raise this claim and this is the applicable law in Jordan as there is a condition of getting a lawyer to raise a claim to demand wages that its value exceeds 1000 JOD whether the claimant was Syrian or Jordanian.

Based on the principle of pacta sunt servanda, the lessor has the right to demand the rent of all the contract’s period whether the leased property were invested or evacuated before the stated period but it’s better to inform the lessor by the Syrian about his wish of ending the contract before the estimated period and specify the reasons for doing so.

Jordan is one of the countries that is strict about owning cars on its lands by any foreigner whether he was a Syrian or from another nationality. It’s only allowed for investors to own cars so the Syrians will be allowed only to drive touristic cars unless they are investors.

Regarding the age of marriage in the Jordanian law it's sixteen calendar years and there are no exceptions for this condition and violating it is a crime that require punishment by law.

Regarding Syariah or Religious courts in Jordanian law, they have three types: The first one is the Religious court whose decisions gets appeals in front of the Court of Appeal and then in front of the High Religious court of Justice. And regarding the divorce and separation cases, they get referred automatically, after the issuance of judgment by the Religious court, to the Court of Appeal even if the parties of dispute didn’t ask for appeal.

Category A of investment gets issued from the Investment Department and those who want to get it should deposit two hundred thousand JOD and it’s only available for foreigners that live on the Jordanian lands.
As for category B of investment, it’s a legislation for Syrians that live in Jordan. Any Syrian person that wants to get the description of an investor has to deposit twenty thousand JOD and he can issue this category from the commerce chamber in the governorate where he lives.

Yes, all jobs and professions that require scientific qualifications are closed in front of Syrians except for engineering work, as the Syrian engineers that exist in Jordan has the right to practice their work and open engineering office based on the principle of reciprocity of treatment agreed on between the two countries. This happened when the Syrian and Jordanian engineers guilds entered into an agreement that allows their members to practice the profession in any of the two countries.

Before the fall of the South and getting controlled by the regime forces there were libel cases for specific persons that committed crimes on the Jordanian lands and they were getting deported to the areas under the control of the opposition.
And after July 2018 the libel and deportation cases for any Syrian that exist in Jordan stopped and the Syrian criminals get moved to Al-Azrak camp.