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29 March 2024

Nearly 75,000 residents visit Saudi in H1

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VFS TasHeel International, a company mandated to process entry permits to Saudi Arabia, today reported it processed 74,955 visa applications in the first six months of 2015.

Dean Meyer, Chief Financial Officer of VFS TasHeel, said: “Dubai led the visa applications number with 42,715applicants while Abu Dhabi processed 16,860applications and Sharjah 15,380.”

In the Middle East, VFS TasHeel has 18 centres operational so far. The entity processed over 541,640 visa applications in 2015 from UAE, Jordan, Egypt and Bahrain.

Dean said: “On an average, in the UAE over 600 visa applications are processed daily across the three centers due to the efficient and customer-friendly approach of the employees who act as trusted facilitators between visa applicants and the Saudi mission.”

VFS Tasheel has been mandated to process visa applications and provide biometric enrollment services to KSA in 33 countries, and when all of its centres are completely operational, the entity is expected to handle 6.5 million visa applications every year.

“Globally, we now have 46 visa processing centres operational across 20 countries and these centres have handled in excess of 1,009,600visa applications in the first half of 2015. We believe that the visa applicant count will be on the rise for the remaining part of the year,” Dean said.