{"id":13092,"date":"2023-06-02T13:17:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T11:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.fr\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:16:38","slug":"during-hajj-in-saudi-arabia-visa-will-not-work-in-djeddah-and-medina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/blog\/pendant-le-hajj-en-arabie-saoudite-le-visa-ne-fonctionnera-pas-a-djeddah-et-medine\/","title":{"rendered":"During the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, e-Visa will not work in Jeddah and Medina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest<a href=\"https:\/\/gaca.gov.sa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Saudi General Civil Aviation Authority (GACA)<\/strong><\/a> specify the conditions of access to visas for Saudi Arabia for the Hajj.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Only the following visa categories may be used for passengers arriving at <strong>Djeddah<\/strong> (<em>Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport - JED<\/em>) and <strong>Medina<\/strong> (<em>Medina Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz International MED Airport<\/em>) from June 1 to June 28, 2023 :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visas <strong>Hajj<\/strong> (accepted only at these 2 airports)<\/li>\n<li><strong>GCC citizens<\/strong> (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar)<\/li>\n<li>Visas for<strong>business<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Visas for <strong>medical tourism<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During this period, holders of e-Visas, tourist visas, visit visas or Umrah visas will not be allowed to board airlines serving these destinations. <strong>No visa will be issued on arrival during this period.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For e-Visa holders, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">arrival at another eligible airport<\/span> is still possible until June 28, 2023 and beyond.<\/p>\n<h2>What is the <em>hajj<\/em> ?<\/h2>\n<p>THE <em><strong>hajj<\/strong><\/em> is one of the five pillars of Islam, and represents a religious pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It must be performed at least once in the lifetime of every Muslim who is physically and financially able to do so. The hajj takes place once a year, during the Islamic month of Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest guidelines from the Saudi General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) specify the conditions for visa access to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-13092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moyen-orient","tag-arabie-saoudite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7022327,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions\/7022327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visamundi.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}