Manama: Saudi Arabia will issue short-term visit visas for transit passengers.
The transit visas will be issued for a validity period of 48 hours (two days) and 96 hours (4-day). The visas will cost SR100 for 46-hours and SR300 for 96-hours.
This comes after the Saudi Cabinet has approved amending the structure of visit, Haj and transit visas. The Council of Economic and Development Affairs and the Cabinet’s General Committee, as well as the decisions of the Shura Council, local has recommended for the issuance of short-term visit visas for transit passengers.
The cabinet decided to amend a paragraph of the Schedule of Visit, Hajj and Transit Visas by land, sea or air in this regard, according to a report published by the official Umm Al-Qura newspaper on its website.
The Cabinet’s decision came in the framework of improving and developing the regulations related to the entry visas to the Kingdom.
The new move will add fillip to the Saudi tourism sector as the authority expects hundreds of passengers will make use of this.
Before suspending international air services due to the covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of passengers had passed through the kingdom's airports on an everyday basis. Those on the connection planes had to stay in the transit area for hours without a chance to get out. It is being observed that short-term visas will help them.
