Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Foreign Ministry issues 1.75 million pilgrim visas

JEDDAH: Saudi missions abroad have issued more than 1.75 million visas for those who want to perform Haj this year, said Mohammed Al-Salloum, undersecretary at the Foreign Ministry for consular affairs. “Saudi embassies and consulates in different countries completed the issuance of Haj visas on Monday evening,” Al-Salloum told the Saudi Press Agency. As many as 1,582,217 pilgrims have already arrived in the Kingdom from different parts of the world. The majority of them — 1,445,135 — came by air, 116,532 by land and 20,550 by sea, according to Maj. Gen. Salim Al-Belaihed, director general of the Passport Department. More than 2.5 million, including read more........................

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