Saudi citizens offers e-visa facility in India
Good news for the people of Saudi Arabia as soon they are eligible for e-visa facility for visiting India. Yes, it’s a great news as this has come after India’s ongoing diplomatic mission. As the decision was taken in the meeting between Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Delhi earlier this week.
Procedure for applying:
Following the news, now every Saudi nationals can apply for a visa online, with a registration confirmation assurance within 24 hours of the application. And then an e-mail of the confirmation will be sent to the registered e-mail ID of the applicant. Thereafter, the applicant just simply needs to show a copy of the same at the immigration to obtain a visa. But meanwhile, this simple process will be complicated, as the Saudi citizens required to give bio-metric details at the embassy as well as at the consulate. And this same details now shown at the airports in India.
Well, by doing this India will get benefits in terms of tourism. Mr. Kadakampally Surendran, Minister of Co-operation, Tourism and Devaswoms said that this move has been very well received by Kerala tourism, as the state receives a good number of visitors from Saudi and is expecting the number to go up. This has been tremendous effort of Indian government to showcases that India is one of the best tourist hub on this earth.
