Almost all the expatriates living alone in Saudi Arabia for working purposes, they want to bring their family members to the Saudi Arabia so as to spend good time and feel relaxed with them. As Saudi Arabia is known as a dry place because of not having so many options or choices for the outdoor activities, the expatriates want to live or spend time with their family members. If any expatriate wants to bring his family to spend time with him, here are two options permanent family visa or family visit visa. But if the family needs to stay for a short span of time, it's better to choose family visit visa. The expatriates can invite these persons on family visit visa such as wife, children, father, mother, brother (under 18 years age), sister, father in law and mother in law.

Online Process to Apply For Family Visit Visa

The very first step you will have to take is to fill an online application for the family visit visa, which is available on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When you will open the website, at first change the language into english so as to understand easily. After this you there will be big tabs on the screen, click on the tab named “Individuals”, after the click, a new window will open, in that new window you will have to select “Resident” and then in the third screen you will have to select “The Family Visit Visa”. This will make you enter successfully into the application form. Now, you will have to agree the terms and conditions, but you cannot find any option to convert that in the english language, but if you are using Google Chrome you can easily translate that because Google Chrome browser has a translation button is located at the right corner of the address bar. In the second step, you will have to enter the number of your Iqama, expiry date and visa number.

In the third step, the system will automatically fetch all your details from your visa. All you have to fill in this step is the title, email and mobile number. If the system does not fill other information automatically, you can manually fill them. You will have to fill the name of the City in Arabic in-front of the title. In the next step, you will have to select the validity of the family visa you are applying for, you can select maximum 180 days, because 180 days is the maximum duration to stay in Saudi Arabia on Family visit visa. Beyond the 180 days there is no extension of family visit visa.

Now you will have to click on the “addition” button, suddenly a pop-up screen will appear in that you will have to enter the name of the person whom you want to bring on family visit visa in Saudi Arabia. Make sure spelling should be correct as written in the passport. After entering the name, select the religion of that person, Muslim or non-Muslim. Then select the gender and your relationship with that person, his/her city name from which she will be travelling, his/her date of birth and nationality exactly same as in the passport. But if you select the relationship as “Others”, you will see a new window open, in that window you will have to mention the relationship in Arabic, as mentioned above use Google Chrome to translate. After all these steps done, means you have finally filled the form successfully and you will be given a filled form. Hope this will help you while applying for Saudi Family visit visa.