Umrah visa guides
Dated, sourced guides to choose your visa, book your permit and prepare your Umrah, alone, as a family or as a group. Every rule shows its source and the date we checked it.
Choosing your visa
Tourist eVisa, Umrah visa, access through residence: the right route for each passport.
Umrah visa: tourist eVisa or Umrah visa, which should you choose?
Tourist eVisa or Umrah visa: who can apply for which, the season dates, the mandatory permit and the right route for each traveller.
Saudi eVisa for residents: Gulf residents, permanent residents and US, UK or Schengen visa holders
Gulf resident, US green card or UK/EU permanent resident, used US, UK or Schengen visa: the three routes to the Saudi eVisa for Umrah and what to provide.
Preparing your Umrah
The eVisa conditions, the Umrah permit and the dates of the season.
Can I do Umrah on a tourist visa? Umrah on the tourist eVisa explained
Can you do Umrah on a Saudi tourist eVisa? Yes: what the visa allows, the seasonal closure, the Umrah permit, the required vaccine and a checklist.
How to book an Umrah permit in the official app, step by step
How to book an Umrah permit in the official app: visitor account, verification code, time slot, companions, cancelling, children and the Rawdah.
Umrah season 1448 dates: the official calendar and Ramadan 2027 (forecast, to be confirmed)
Official Umrah season 1448 dates (2026-2027) with their Hijri equivalents, the Ramadan 2027 forecast and what they mean for your visa and permit.
Travelling alone or as a family
The rules that concern women, children and minors.
Umrah for women: travelling without a mahram, what the rules say and practical points
Can a woman do Umrah alone? The 2022 changes, today's official rule, outdated myths and practical points for women travelling without a mahram.
Umrah with children and minors: visa, permit, vaccines
Umrah with children and minors: passport, the child's visa, Umrah permit, vaccines required by country, and which points remain uncertain in the sources.
For agencies
Filing a group's visas, from checking passports to delivering the visas.
The eligibility checker
Pick a nationality and see whether the tourist eVisa, which allows Umrah, is possible, including the residence routes.