✈️ Single-entry tourist visa for Saudi Arabia
🔹 Duration and validity
- The visa to single entrance is valid 3 months from the date of its issuance.
- Once used, it allows for a maximum stay of 90 consecutive days.
- After leaving the country, he expires automatically.
✨ What this means in practice
- Entering Saudi Arabia
- You travel with your single entry visa Valid for 3 months.
- You can stay until 90 consecutive days.
- Leaving the country
- Once your stay is over, you must leave Saudi Arabia.
- The visa becomes invalid upon expiry of its duration (3 months).
- Resubmit an online application
- As soon as your visa expires (after 3 months), you can immediately submit a new application on visa.visitsaudi.com or ksavisa.sa and Return without delay
- This operation is repeatable as many times as necessary during the year.
- The treatment takes on average 24 to 72 hours.
🔹 Steps to obtain it
The steps are the same as for a multiple-entry visa:
- Log in on https://ksavisa.sa/.
- press the tour tab
- Select tourism and add your nationality
- choose Electronic visa (E-Visa)
- Log in or create an account
- Select number of entries: single (unique)
- Select visa validity as 90 and (period of stay) as 90 days
- Click on next and fill in your personal information
- Pay the fees (often around 90 to 110 USD (depending on nationality).
- Receive the visa by email (delay of 24 to 72 hours in general).
Single-entry or multiple-entry visa: which one to choose?
| Criteria | Single entry visa 🛂 | Multiple-entry visa 🌍 |
|---|---|---|
| Validity | 3 months (Wait 3 months for a new visa) | 1 year (wait 1 year to apply for a new visa) |
| Maximum length of stay. | 90 days | 90 days |
| Number of entries | only 1 | Unlimited |
| Average price | 90–110 EUR 💵 | 120–185 EUR 💵 |
| Ideal for… | A unique journey | Several trips per year |
🔹 Key points
- You can't extend this visa on site.
- If you want to come back later, you must resubmit a request.
- For short stays (Umrah, quick business trip, simple tourism), it's a economical and practical option.
Namely: No visa (Umrah, tourist, business, family visit, etc.) allows you to work, rent an empty apartment, buy a vehicle, or enroll your children in a state school in Saudi Arabia; for that, you need an iqama (residence permit).
Umrah is accessible with any type of visa for Saudi Arabia.
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