{"id":102,"date":"2013-06-27T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T09:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T09:54:17","slug":"no-umrah-visa-after-july-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/no-umrah-visa-after-july-8\/","title":{"rendered":"No Umrah visa after July 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced July 8 (Shaban 29) as the last date for seeking Umrah visas.<br \/>\nAll Saudi diplomatic missions across the world will continue issuing Umrah visas until the \u201cend of Shaban,\u201d said Osama Nugali, a spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, here.<br \/>\nAccording to the statistics released by the Ministry of Haj, the Kingdom has already issued about four million Umrah visas this year.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a routine procedure that is taken every year by Saudi Arabia,\u201d said a travel agent Arif Kannauji, who has been working for a local Haj and Umrah operator in Riyadh.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery year, we are requested not to accept any visa application for Umrah during Ramadan,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe move, Kannauji said, was to ensure that all those willing to perform Umrah have received their visas well in time, during the month of Shaban itself. It normally takes 7 to 14 days to get a visa.<br \/>\nUmrah season starts in the month of Safar, the second month in the Islamic calendar, until the end of Ramadan.<br \/>\nUntil July 1, about 3.8 million Umrah pilgrims entered the Kingdom, which is an increase of 400,000 compared to the same period last year, according to a report issued by the Ministry of Haj recently. -GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/no-umrah-visa-after-july-8\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced July 8 (Shaban 29) as the last date for seeking Umrah visas. All Saudi diplomatic missions across the world will continue issuing Umrah visas until the \u201cend of Shaban,\u201d said Osama Nugali, a spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, here. According to the statistics released by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}