Saudi Arabia Increases Umrah Visa Quota

Saudi Ministry is all set to increase Umrah visa quota as Saudi Minister of Hajj has said that new rules for Umrah will announce soon  through which 12,50, 00,000 people will be able to reap the blessings of Umrah from next year. Saudi Minister of Hajj named as Bandar Al-Hajjar said while talking about new rules for Umrah that new laws will increase the number of people for Umrah as 40, 00,000 people were used to perform Umrah before.

Saudi Ministry said new system is set to increase number of people for Umrah so that most of the people can avail blessing of Umrah. He further said that a meeting will also set soon with the owners of Umrah in order to discuss new policies for the upcoming Umrah season which will start in the mid of November. [alert style=”white”] Saudi Ministry is also looking forward to issue visa for Umrah by using their e-portal through which people will be able to get visa within few minutes, Bandar Al-Hajjar added.[/alert]

However Ministry’s figure is claiming that 10 million Umrah visas will issue in 2016 while 60 million visas will issue in 2018 as 5 million visas had issued in 2013 and 6 million visas were issued in 2014 and 2015.