Working Visit Visa Procedure

waleed bin abdul hafeez wrote:

Hi HRGuru,

I have a short term employment contract (attested by Saudi Chamber of Commerce) with the Saudi Company for the period of 3 Month. The company has provided me their Trade License and a MOFA Letter. Please let me know what else should i need to get Visa on my passport through the Saudi Embassy in Pakistan and how much time it would take. A guy in the Saudi Embassy told me that it is one day job is it true?

Looking forward to your response.

Regards,
Waleed

A short term contract may not get you a work visa. Normally you need an employment contract attested from chamber and MOFA specifying the work visa title as job title and the visa issue number and issue date in the contract. Along with this you will also need to submit your attested bachelors degree, medical certificate , photos , forms and fees to the saudi embassy.The whole process if all papers in order can take a week or max two weeks.  In Pakistan they used to allow people to submit for applications directly but now not allowed , only approved agencies can go through - unless of course you have wasta. The none of the above is needed and can be processed in a day as you said.

waleed bin abdul hafeez wrote:

Hi HR Guru,

Thanks for your response.

Sorry I forget to mention that the visa invitation I have is also for the Short Term Stay (Maximum 180 Days) it is kind of a visit visa. Do I have to submit the Attested Degrees in that case too?

Looking forward to your response.

Thanks.

, you should have mentioned this before, since its visit visa no need for education certificate, recently there are some unconfirmed reports that some embassies do ask for a certificate - authenticated from Commission of Higher Education - But I dont think its a mandatory requirement.

waleed bin abdul hafeez wrote:

Hahaha , Thanks HR Guru. Well I am leaving for Pakistan today and hopping that will get that Visit Visa instantly. For the Visit Visa invitation from MOFA, Short Term Employment Contract (Attested from Chamber of Commerce) and Company's Trade License would be enough or not and can I submit it directly in the Embassy.

Thanks.

The contract is not needed, but good to have. What you need is the visa details (or visa print out with visa / application  number), photos, CR (Trade license of employer) copy and thats it. Good luck in getting this in one day. Better to use an agent since they know the "in's and out's" and can do this for you without any hassles for you.

waleed bin abdul hafeez wrote:

Hi Hr Guru,

I am back to Pakistan for the visa issuance and now I came to know that the letter sent to me is not enough for the visa. When I am searching on the MOFA Website my Application Number mentioned below text appearing there,


Application number:     5954296     Date of the request:     05/05/2013
Are providing commercial visit requests and requests for a working visit to Representative directly using request a letter of invitation from Saudi representations abroad via the ministry's website.

Please let me know how to proceed further, the company is telling me that the rules are changed and this is the only thing needed and the Agent here is telling me that this is not enough.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Waleed

Could you get clear requirement from agent as to what is missing, I am not sure from your query above - what letter is not enough now ?

waleed bin abdul hafeez wrote:

Hi Hr Guru,

Thanks for the Reply.

The agent has told me that you need MOFA Issued visa online in which your name must appears or the invitation letter with your name on it. However, the company told me that as per the new MOFA rules once the documents scrutiny is done an Application Number is issued after which we have to submit the documents to the Saudi Embassy for the further Visa Process. Another thing which is told to me by Mandoob of my company that I might not be able to get Work Visit Visa before Hajj as Government has banned Visa Issuance.

Regards,
Waleed

Normal visit visa process is below:

Two ways - either by invitation letter or through online application in MOFA. I am not sure what you have. Is it an invitation letter. If so the embassy has the right to reject this any time.

What your company can do is apply online, get the print out and get it attested from COC and then await the visa to be issued online. There is still months ahead for Hajj and still the MOFA is issuing / rejecting visa's as usual. Ask your company PR/ GR/ Mandoob to apply online and send you the application number once issued so that you can approach the saudi embassy.

waleed bin abdul hafeez wrote:

Hi HR Guru,

Trust you are doing fine.

Finally I am here in Riyadh on Work Visit Visa. Now, I have an another question that on my visa following terms are mentioned,

Validity of Visa: 60 Days
No of Entries: Multiple
Duration of Stay: 30 Days

Is this mean that I have to exit from Saudi Arabia after 30 Days or I can utilize the visa up to 60 Days?

The documents used for the Issuance of this Visa was:

MOFA Attested Invitation Letter for the Work Visit Visa.
Photocopies of attested Degrees.
COC Document of the Company Sponsoring me.
A Short Term Employment Contract with the company sponsoring my visa. (COC Attested Contract)
And a letter from my current employer who is providing my services to the Visa Sponsoring Company.
After that it takes almost Four Days to have the Visa Endorsed on my Passport and the agent charged me PKR 16,500.

Answers below :


Is this mean that I have to exit from Saudi Arabia after 30 Days or I can utilize the visa up to 60 Days?

Yes, in order to keep the multiple nature you need to exit in 30 days. If you dont want to , you can extend the visa for 30 days at the end of the first 30 day period and you will get extended for an already 60 day valid visa for 30 days which you already have- but will loose the multiple nature.

TheLegendLeads wrote:

Yes, that's a different visa and the proper name is 'Business visa or work visit visa. The validity will be 90 days max.

In that case, you won't have to go through the above mentioned  long validation procedures and the visa must be stamped within 2 weeks max from the date on the invitation letter.

I guess they're gonna offer you a probation period.

I am in the same position. Company in KSA is asking me to come on Business visa or work visit visa. It is my choice, whatever i will say they will issue. I am not working in Pakistan so i dont have company letter here and neither i have attested degrees. Please suggest what to do? Is there any (way) visa on which , i can travel to ksa for short time period with letter or degree?

Extra information: I have worked in ksa for two years. Last time i have work visa which i got without attested degree.
Thanks