Saudi Arabia Dispatches Officers to Issue ‘Hajj’ Visas in Freetown
The authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have dispatched two officers attached to the Bureau of the Consular Section in their Foreign Ministry for the issuance of 2010 ‘Hajj’ visas.
The officers, Messer’s Abdulaziz Bin Mohamed Al-Hassan and Abdulaziz Bin Meshal Al-Harbi are expected to arrive in Freetown this weekend to carry out their assignment, says Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Consular Affairs, Ambassador Muhammad Al-Salum. (Photo: The first batch of South African pilgrims arrived at Haj Terminal in Jeddah (SPA))
Documents required for Hajj visa
According to the Ministry of Hajj, applicants must have a passport with a validity of at least six (6) months and the passport should have at least two empty visa pages adjacent to each other.
Each applicant must submit one recent passport size colour photograph with a white background. The photograph must be a full-face view in which the visa applicant is facing the camera directly. Side or angled views are NOT accepted.
The applicant must submit proof of vaccination for meningitis. The certificate of vaccination should have been issued not more than three years and not less than 10 days prior to entering Saudi Arabia.
Pilgrims Assured
In another development, the Minister of Hajj, Dr. Fouad Abdul Salam Al-Farsi, has announced that his ministry would provide “around-the-clock services” to all pilgrims the moment they arrive to when they depart. “We have worked on mechanisms aimed at enabling pilgrims perform their “Hajj” rituals easily and comfortably,” he added.
The authorities in the Embassy of the Republic of Sierra Leone in Riyadh have also put in place mechanisms to receive their pilgrims expected to arrive at the Prince Mohamed Bin Abdul Aziz International Airport, Medinah at the end of this month.
First African Pilgrims Jet In
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Establishment for Non-Arab African Pilgrims, Abdul Wahid bin Burhan Seifuddin has announced the arrival in Saudi Arabia of the first batch of 79 African pilgrims last Thursday, October, 7th 2010.
What’s Hajj?
Hajj is the annual Muslim pilgrimage performed here in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the fifth pillar of Islam, a religious duty that must be carried out by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so at least once in his/her lifetime.
Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Information Attaché, Sierra Leone Embassy, Riyadh – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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