Saudi Council of Engineers

Yes you apply first for the council of engineers using your attested engineering certificate (attested by the Saudi embassy of the country of origin) and when you get accepted and got your membership number, then you apply for your Iqama as an engineer.( my cousin  went through this last month and he is my source of info)

Yes, you need your papers to be authenticated,i think its just this year that certification was required to be labeled as a engineer(or any prof. title) to appear in you iqama, for our company we have 5-10 employees who is mistakenly labeled as ENGINEER and now iqama's are stuck due to the correction.

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=209113

Here's a tread bro..

You see ralph-RRD-Dude, it is confusing because on the link you sent me to, it says that you need to provide your iqama number...I don't have an iqama yet...I am told that I need to get the accreditation first in order to get then my iqama...

In the application, they ask for iqama number or borber (border?) number, can the border number be the visa number if you have no iqama????

No the boarder number is a number you will find hand written next to your visa in your passport( usually in Arabic) . The immigration guy who  stamped your visa when you first came into the country he will be the one who wrote it

I would have never knew about the border number.  Thank you very much Ahmadaq and Ralph, you have been very helpful !