JEDDAH – A total of 4.6 million Umrah visas have been issued until the middle of Shaban, an increase of 1.1 million visas compared to the same period in 2010, according to a statistical report released by the Umrah and Haj Agency at the Ministry of Haj. Umrah and Haj experts have attributed this 10-year [...]

The Saudi Shoura Council has recommended reducing the visa and iqama (resident permit) fees of domestic aides working in the Kingdom. The members, at the Shoura meeting in Riyadh on Monday, however, felt there was no need to reduce the employment visa fees paid by corporate clients. They made the recommendation when a proposal was put [...]

The 9th International Information Technology Exhibition for Saudi Arabia held concurrently with Saudi Communications’2010 Exhibition Overview Join key ICT professionals at GITEX KSA 2010, and access a host of lucrative investment opportunities in the booming Saudi market Saudi Communications’2010 concurrently taking place with GITEX. IT spending in Saudi Arabia is expected to rise to some [...]

U.S. Ambassador: The Embassy has granted last year 86 thousand visas to Saudi nationals, and visa rejected that offer Saudis have declined to reach less than 5% and they are currently seeking to improve procedures for the granting of visas to Saudi citizens not to exceed the time allocated for the granting of visas on [...]

The Passport Department has launched a service to enable exit and re-entry visas to be issued online. Director-General of the department Maj. Gen. Salim Al-Belaihed said on Friday this was one of the new Internet-based services being introduced for both Saudis and expatriates. Although the department’s website www.gdp.gov.sa is in Arabic, there is an option [...]

“Muqeem” service has been designed to provide practical solutions for such problems as it does offer all the required information that the personnel departments need for their expatriates staff from an integral, reliable and permanent database maintained at Passport and Traffic Departments.  This service offers Searching and inquiries service, Lists service, Alert service, Documents service, and Forms service. [...]