{"id":91957,"date":"2025-11-03T23:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=91957"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:54:24","slug":"umrah-visa-rules-saudi-arabia-to-change-validity-soon-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/umrah-visa-rules-saudi-arabia-to-change-validity-soon-reports-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Umrah visa rules: Saudi Arabia to change validity soon, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jeg_navbar_mobile_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_navbar_mobile jeg_sticky_nav\" data-mode=\"scroll\">\n<div class=\"jeg_mobile_bottombar jeg_mobile_midbar jeg_container normal\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_row\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_col jeg_nav_center jeg_nav_grow\">\n<div class=\"item_wrap jeg_nav_aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_item jeg_mobile_logo\">\n<div>Riyadh, Nov 03: As temperatures cool across the Arabian Peninsula, an increasing number of Muslims are traveling to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah. To manage this growing influx, the Kingdom has recently introduced new regulations for Umrah visas.<\/div>\n<div class=\"site-title\">The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has reduced the validity of Umrah visas from three months to one month from the date of issuance, Saudi news channel Al Arabiya reported citing sources.<\/div>\n<div class=\"site-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"site-title\">Since the start of the new Umrah season in early June, over four million Umrah visas have been issued to international pilgrims, a record number in less than five months.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"jeg_main jeg_sidebar_none\">\n<div class=\"jeg_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_content jeg_singlepage\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<p>The new amendments, which will go into effect next week, also includes cancelling the visa 30 days after its issuance date in case the pilgrim has not entered the Kingdom within this period.<\/p>\n<p>Reducing the visa\u2019s validity, however, will not affect the permitted duration of stay after the pilgrim arrives in Saudi Arabia. All those arriving to perform Umrah are allowed to stay for three months.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were made to prevent overcrowding of pilgrims in Makkah and Medina during cooler months, according to Ahmed Bajafar, advisor to the National Committee for Umrah and Visit.<\/p>\n<p>Although Umrah rituals are solely performed in Makkah, many Umrah pilgrims seize the chance to visit Medina during their short trip to Saudi Arabia to pray at the Prophet Mohammad\u2019s mosque.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kingdom has recently made it clear that holders of all types of visas are allowed to perform Umrah during their stay.\u2013(Khaleej Times)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh, Nov 03: As temperatures cool across the Arabian Peninsula, an increasing number of Muslims are traveling to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah. To manage this growing influx, the Kingdom has recently introduced new regulations for Umrah visas. The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has reduced the validity of Umrah visas from three months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91958,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91957\/revisions\/91958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}