Passport & Family Visa Criteria

Dear ,

i have read your blogs about visit visa issues thanks for your help to expat in Saudi Arabia.

i would like to know i have already got one Visit Visa for Sister in-Law from MOI which is not from MOFA.

visa is okay. what should be my next step i have already sent the same Visa "Paper" to my sister in law in knarachi.

please inform me if it is okay..? or is there anyother approval as my admin manager never told me about anything more as per him its the visa and get it stamped from Saudi embassy in Karachi.

please reply on ASAP basis so i can pass the same information to solicitor.

REgards,

Kashi

Well if you already got visa brother and processed in Embassy either in Karachi or Islamabad
it will take hardly 1 week to stamped visa on Passport and you also can book seat as early as you want but within 30 days of visa stamping ( this is what i experiences during my visit visa)

Normally when my husband apply for visa here in Riyadh, we mutually decide date of arrival before, by taking total process days in mind, however Karachi embassy give back passport after stamping very fast as compare to Islamabad one

@Aali786: I believe there is no need to have a passport with surname changed for family visa. Still if u r keen to change then it be done from riyadh and for that matter visit Pakistan Embassy in DQ for revising details on passport.
If u r coming on hubby's iqama then attested nikah documents will be a key requirement.  The span of visit visa has been reduced to 1 month in many cases. Additional extensions per month require 100 SAR if m not mistaken. Hence better to come on ur hubby's iqama.

Thanks dear for kibd reply, its good if no need of surname change, so during this time period we can apply for it, thats good enough

@Aali786,
You have to change passport in the name of your husband because the visa you'll get will be a wife (Zoja) visa. Name change is not necessary; it's a culture thing only.

The queues in Pak embassy are pathetic just like their procedures. A regular passport is taking 100+ days to arrive from Pakistan and an urgent on in 30+ days. Moreover, they'll need you to get a 'married' overseas NADRA card which has it's own wait times. Basically, no e-passport creation or NADRA things are done here; all comes from Pakistan.

You can't be on husband's Iqama if your passport is on your father's name. Keep it as a very important consideration.

No, the max time you can get extensions is 9 months.