If you have applied for a Saudi Arabia visa, you need to take into account its validity period. This visa allows you to stay in the country for a maximum of 90 days. If your stay is longer, you risk a fine.

For how long is the Saudi Arabia visa valid?

On this website, you can apply for a visa for Saudi Arabia. The e-visa is valid for exactly one year. This does not mean that you can stay in the country for a whole year. The maximum authorised stay with this visa is 90 days per year. These 90 days can be divided into several stays. The e-visa for Saudi Arabia is a multiple-entry visa. This means that you can travel to the country multiple times with the same visa, provided that you do not stay in the country for more than 90 days per year.

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An extension is not possible

Bear in mind, if you wish to stay in Saudi Arabia for more than 90 days, that the e-visa cannot be extended. This type of visa allows you to stay in the country for a maximum of 90 days. If you want to make a longer stay in the country, you will need to apply for another type of visa through the embassy. You cannot apply for a new e-visa either, if you already have a valid one. In other words, you cannot travel to Saudi Arabia twice in one year with two different e-visas.

Maximum stay of 90 days
The electronic visa for Saudi Arabia allows you to travel to the country several times. Bear in mind that during the visa's year of validity, you may only stay in Saudi Arabia for a maximum of 90 days. If you stay in the country longer than permitted, you will have to pay a fine. It is not possible to extend the validity period nor the maximum length of stay of the electronic visa.

The validity period can expire

Although the e-visa has a standard validity period of one year, the validity can expire earlier, for example if you no longer comply wity the visa requirements. These are the reasons why the visa may expire:

• The passport used to apply for the visa has expired;
• You don't comply with the Saudi laws;
• You suffer from a serious illness that could pose a risk to the population of Saudi Arabia;
• You cannot prove that you will comply with the visa requirements.

If your travel purpose changes, your e-visa could no longer be valid. The e-visa allows you to visit family or friends, travel for tourism or a short business trip, make a stopover or perform the umrah. The e-visa does not allow you to settle permanently in Saudi Arabia, nor being remunerated by a Saudi company. For this, you will need to leave the country first and then apply for another type of visa from outside Saudi Arabia.

Check the validity of your passport

In order to apply for a Saudi Arabia visa, you need to have a regular passport. You cannot apply for an e-visa with an emergency, official or service passport. If you do not have the appropriate passport, first apply for a new passport. Apply for your visa only after you have obtained your new passport. Bear in mind the expiry date of your passport (which you will find on the information page of your passport). Upon arrival in Saudi Arabia, your passport must have a remaining validity of at least 6 months. If your passport expires within 6 months of your expected date of arrival, you will need to renew it.

The visa is valid inmediately

The validity period starts at once after the visa is approved. Starting from the day the visa is approved, you will have exactly one year to travel multiple times to Saudi Arabia. Bear in mind that you may not stay in the country for more than 90 days during this one-year validity period. Only after one year may you reapply for a new e-visa..

Apply for your visa easily online

You may apply for your Saudi Arabia visa easily on this website through an application form in English. After completing the form and making the payment, you will need to submit an identity photo. Once it will be approved by the visa specialists at e-Visa.ie, you will need to wait an average of 14 days for the visa to be processed. Once approved, you will be able to travel to Saudi Arabia immediately.

Apply now for your Saudi Arabia visa