Hi,
You can go to IMmigration with your ID card, have your photo taken, your fingerprint of one finger on both hands and pay QR 200. You can pay a one to 3 years. I suggest only a one year. It is Qr100 per year I think.
(It would be better if you ask your sponsor to do a multiple exit visa for one year. Then you don't have to keep asking for an exit permit. )
Immigration will then swap your RP for a chipped ID card which let you go through the as egate as long as you have your exit permit.
I have just done mine and it is so easy to do.
Good luck