Entering the KSA with Work Visa through the causeway

You will have to do the Covid test within 72 hours, in Bahrain before entering KSA via the causeway.   Many hospitals offer these - you will have to pay.

Prior to Covid, you could enter on a new work visa into KSA via the causeway.  I, in fact, did that myself.  You would reach Saudi immigration booths and they would send you into a room where your photographs/fingerprints would be taken and a border number would be written on the passport (in Arabic).   Basically, you park your car on the side after the Saudi immigration booth - the officer will hold the passport for the other passengers / driver until you bring back your passport with the border number to show him.  Bit of a walk involved, to the office building, while dodging other cars, depending which immigration booth you went through.

I would assume that the same process is being followed after Covid - no reason for it not to be.

Hello XTang,

thank you very much for the instant reply. That saves me a lot of hazzle flying from Manama to Dammam and have another one-hour drive to Khobar. Sounds great.

Thanks a lot,

best Nick

Hi I am in Bahrain with work visa & want to go to Saudi Arabia with with new work visa, can I change my job without going back to my country (India)?