{"id":49343,"date":"2019-09-12T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49343"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:07:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:07:44","slug":"saudi-arabia-announces-unified-visa-system-for-hajj-umrah-visit-and-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/saudi-arabia-announces-unified-visa-system-for-hajj-umrah-visit-and-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia announces unified visa system for Hajj, Umrah, Visit and Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48135\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Visa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Visa.jpg 301w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Visa-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/>Pilgrims travelling to Saudi Arabia for Haj and Umrah as well as visitors and transit passengers will pay SR300 ($80) for a visa following a restructuring of the system by the Council of Ministers. The Cabinet has also cancelled the fee for repeating the Umrah pilgrimage. Previously an Umrah pilgrim had to pay SR2,000 ($533) in case of repeating the pilgrimage during a three-year period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency, Minister of Haj and Umrah Mohammed Benten, who is also chairman of the Committee of the Guests\u2019 Service Program said: \u201cThis also shows kingdom\u2019s readiness to receive the increasing number of Haj and Umrah pilgrims through huge infrastructure projects and improving the system of services in Makkah, Madinah and the holy sites.\u201d The kingdom is due to announce the launch of tourist visas at the end of the month.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-49344\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Visa_Fees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"844\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Visa_Fees.jpg 585w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Visa_Fees-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 844px) 100vw, 844px\" \/><\/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\/saudi-arabia-announces-unified-visa-system-for-hajj-umrah-visit-and-transit\/\" 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>Pilgrims travelling to Saudi Arabia for Haj and Umrah as well as visitors and transit passengers will pay SR300 ($80) for a visa following a restructuring of the system by the Council of Ministers. The Cabinet has also cancelled the fee for repeating the Umrah pilgrimage. Previously an Umrah pilgrim had to pay SR2,000 ($533) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48135,"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\/49343"}],"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=49343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49345,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343\/revisions\/49345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}