BR-KSA-F-11: Buyer Iqama number (IQA) must be 10 digits starting with 2

Explained by Matheel from ZATCA's rule text and the condition SDK 3.4.8 executes · Updated October 24, 2026

Warning: accepted with a warningConditional, see belowFields: BT-46

When the buyer's cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyIdentification has cbc:ID with schemeID='IQA', the value must be exactly 10 digits starting with 2; otherwise a warning is raised. In the validator this test is the failure condition: the expression shown is TRUE when the value is wrong.

How to fix it

Put the correct Iqama number as exactly 10 digits starting with 2, e.g. <cbc:ID schemeID="IQA">2105293847</cbc:ID> with no letters, dashes or spaces. If the number you have does not fit this shape, check that the schemeID is the right one.

ZATCA's official text

[BR-KSA-F-11] - The value provided in Other Buyer ID (BT-46) for the scheme ID 'IQA' appears to be incorrect. Please recheck the value to avoid non-compliance.
Source: ZATCA SDK 3.4.8 · ZATCA KSA rules

Fails when (the condition ZATCA's SDK runs)

normalize-space(@schemeID) = 'IQA' and not(string-length(normalize-space(.)) = 10 and not(translate((.), '0123456789', '')) and starts-with(normalize-space(.), '2'))

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