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Umrah Visa from Pakistan

Everything a Pakistani pilgrim needs in one place: the fee Saudi Arabia charges, the documents, the two vaccinations that stop people at the airport, the permit you need before you can enter the Haram, and the deadlines that quietly decide whether your visa is still valid when you fly. Apply with us from Lahore and we handle all of it.

Rules, fees and health requirements checked 12 October 2026 against the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah and the Saudi Ministry of Health
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The Umrah visa from Pakistan, explained properly

Most Umrah visa pages in Pakistan are a price and a phone number. This one is the actual rules, taken from Saudi Arabia's own published sources and dated, so you can see where every figure comes from.

If you would rather skip the reading and get moving, send us your passport scan and dates on WhatsApp and we will tell you within the day whether your trip works.

What the Umrah visa actually is

The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah defines it in a single sentence: "An electronic visa granted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to pilgrims wishing to perform Umrah, allowing them freedom of movement between Makkah, Madinah, and all cities of the Kingdom during their stay."

Three things in that sentence matter to a Pakistani applicant.

  • Electronic. It is an e-visa issued through Saudi Arabia's own systems. In the ordinary case there is no paper form to queue for at a counter.
  • All cities of the Kingdom. The common belief here is that an Umrah visa confines you to Makkah and Madinah. It does not. Jeddah, Taif, Riyadh and the rest are open to you for the length of your stay.
  • During their stay. That freedom lasts exactly as long as the visa does — which is why the dates further down matter more than anything else on this page.

One thing to understand before you plan anything. Saudi Arabia does not issue a bare Umrah visa. The Ministry's own answer to the question is blunt: "Can I come with an Umrah visa without a service package? — An Umrah visa cannot be issued without service packages (accommodation – transport)."

So the visa is issued against a confirmed trip: where you are staying in Makkah, how you are moving between cities, and on what dates. That is why Umrah is arranged as a package rather than as a visa on its own, and it is why the sequence matters — the booking comes first, the visa is issued against it. You can see what we put together at Umrah packages, or send us your dates and we will build one around them.

The Umrah season runs from 1 Muharram to 30 Dhu al-Qi'dah, and visas begin being issued from 15 Dhu al-Hijjah. An Umrah visa cannot be extended into the Hajj season — the Ministry states the system does not allow it. If your dates sit near Hajj, that is the first thing we check, before anything is paid.

The Umrah visa fee

The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah publishes it as "a fee for issuing the Umrah visa, estimated at 300 Saudi Riyals."

Read that wording carefully, because it is the honest version of a number you will see quoted confidently everywhere else. The Ministry says estimated at, and publishes no date against it. It is the official figure and it is the one to plan on, but it is not a quotation.

What matters more for your budget is what the SAR 300 is and is not:

  • It is a Saudi government charge, paid to Saudi Arabia. It is not our fee and we do not keep any part of it.
  • There is no fee for repeating Umrah. The Ministry confirms it plainly, and more than one Umrah visa a year is allowed.
  • The visa fee is a small part of an Umrah budget. Airfare, your hotel's distance from the Haram and your room occupancy decide the total far more than the visa does.

Source and date. Fee from the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah's published FAQ, read 12 October 2026. This is a Saudi government charge and Saudi Arabia can change it without notice. Our own service charge is quoted separately and shown separately on every quote we give.

Documents required for an Umrah visa

What we need from you to apply:

  • Passport — clear scans of the first and second pages
  • CNIC or Smart CNIC
  • One recent passport-size photograph
  • Vaccination certificate — meningitis ACWY for every pilgrim, plus polio for travellers from Pakistan. This is the item that most often derails a trip, so it has a section of its own below
  • An emergency contact in Pakistan, with a number that will actually be answered
  • Your travel dates and how many are travelling, including the ages of any children

Your confirmed accommodation, intercity transport and return flight form part of the application rather than something you arrange afterwards — because the visa is issued against them. When you book with us, putting those in place is our job, not yours.

Two things we will not pretend to know

Passport validity. Almost every Umrah page in Pakistan states that your passport must be valid for more than six months. We could not find that rule published on any official Saudi page. Saudi Arabia consolidated its embassy websites during 2026 and the old Islamabad and Karachi visa-requirement pages no longer resolve, so sites still citing them are citing dead links. We plan on six months anyway, because airlines apply it at check-in — but we are telling you that is airline practice as we understand it, not a published Saudi rule.

Photograph specification. For the same reason there is no official Saudi photo specification we can point you to. We use the specification the application system accepts, and if a photo is rejected we reshoot it at our cost, not yours.

Vaccinations: the part that actually stops people

Umrah trips are lost at the vaccination centre and the check-in desk far more often than at the visa stage. The controlling document is the Saudi Ministry of Health's Health Requirements and Recommendations for Travelers to Saudi Arabia for Umrah, 1447H (2026) — not the travel agency chatter, and not last year's copy.

VaccineWho needs itTimingCertificate valid for
Meningococcal ACWY or ACYWX, conjugateEvery pilgrim, from every countryAt least 10 days before arrival5 years
Meningococcal ACWY, polysaccharideEvery pilgrim, from every countryAt least 10 days before arrival3 years
Polio — bOPV or IPV, one doseEveryone arriving from PakistanAt least 4 weeks before arrivalIPV within 12 months, OPV within 6 months
COVID-19Only the listed high-risk groupsBefore travel—
Seasonal influenzaRecommended, not required——

Meningitis is not optional and not country-specific. The regulation reads: "All individuals intending to perform Umrah from all countries, are required to be vaccinated" with a quadrivalent ACYW or pentavalent ACYWX conjugate vaccine "received within the last 5 years and at least 10 days prior to arrival", or a polysaccharide ACYW vaccine within the last three years on the same ten-day rule.

The polio requirement names Pakistan, and it applies to adults. Pakistan is listed in the regulation's table of countries with wild poliovirus, and the target group is "All individuals arriving to Saudi Arabia from target countries, regardless of age [or] prior vaccine status." Not children only. Not people who were vaccinated as infants. Every pilgrim, every trip. One dose of bivalent oral polio vaccine or inactivated polio vaccine, and the official guidance is to take it at least four weeks before arrival — IPV within the previous twelve months, OPV within the previous six.

In Pakistan the certificate is issued through the National Immunisation Management Service. The Ministry of National Health Services states that "the National Institute of Health (NIH) has launched a vaccination certificate system through National Immunisation Management Service (NIMS) for polio and yellow fever vaccination to meet international requirements", and that certificates "can be downloaded from NIMS website separately after paying a fee of Rs100."

Make sure the vaccine's name is written on the certificate

Buried in the Saudi regulation: "If the type of the vaccine is not indicated on the certificate, the vaccine would be considered valid for 3 years only from the date of administration."

A conjugate ACWY vaccine is good for five years — but if whoever filled in your card did not write which vaccine it was, you lose two of those years. Check the card before you leave the centre. Thirty seconds there saves a repeat vaccination two years from now.

Two Saudi sources contradict each other here. Follow the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah's FAQ answers that certified health certificates for Umrah are "not required at the present time", and that "vaccination is not required to perform Umrah, enter the Grand Mosque in Makkah, visit Al-Rawdah, or enter the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah." The Ministry of Health's Umrah regulations require meningitis vaccination of everyone and polio vaccination of arrivals from Pakistan.

Both describe different gates. The Hajj ministry is talking about the permit — the slot that lets you into the Haram once you are already inside Saudi Arabia — and that permit does not check vaccination. The Ministry of Health is talking about entry, which is checked before you board and again at the border. The "not required at the present time" answer is out of date; parts of that FAQ still refer to 2023.

Plan for the Ministry of Health's rules. Nobody has ever been turned away for carrying a certificate they did not need.

COVID-19 is required only if you fall into one of the groups the regulation names: over 65, pregnant, or living with chronic heart, respiratory or kidney disease, hereditary blood disorders such as sickle cell anaemia or thalassaemia, immunodeficiency, cancer, or chronic neurological disease. A healthy adult outside those groups has no COVID-19 entry requirement. Seasonal influenza sits in the recommendations section, not the requirements.

Yellow fever is not required from Pakistan — that rule applies to arrivals from listed African and South American countries. Nor is the cholera observation certificate, which applies to arrivals from Yemen and Sudan. Routine childhood immunisations are recommended but not demanded.

One caution we cannot resolve for you: we could not verify from any official Saudi or Pakistani source that the NIMS certificate is accepted in place of the international yellow card, the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis. If your vaccinator can issue the yellow card as well, take both. The regulation also allows Saudi border health authorities to "undertake additional preventive measures for those arriving from target countries based on risk assessment", so complete paperwork is worth more than being technically right.

Source and date. Requirements from the Saudi Ministry of Health's Health Requirements and Recommendations for Travelers to Saudi Arabia for Umrah — 1447H (2026), read 12 October 2026, with the polio travel window corroborated by the World Health Organization's 45th polio IHR Emergency Committee statement of 25 August 2026. Saudi Arabia reissues this document every Hijri year, so we re-check it each season rather than trusting last year's copy.

How to apply for an Umrah visa from Pakistan — three steps

  1. Send us your documents and dates

    Passport scan, CNIC, a photograph and your travel dates, on WhatsApp or at the office. We tell you the same day whether your dates work — against the Hajj season, against your vaccination timing, and against the three-month entry window.

  2. We confirm your accommodation and transport, then file the visa

    Because the visa is issued against a confirmed trip, this is one step rather than two. You approve the hotels and the dates, we submit, and you pay the Saudi fee and our charge against a written quote that shows the two separately.

  3. You collect your visa, your documents and your briefing

    Visa, tickets and hotel confirmations together, plus the things most agencies leave you to discover: how to register on Nusuk from Pakistan, how to book your Umrah permit, and the Rawdah permit in Madinah.

That is the whole process from your side. If anything is going to be a problem — a passport too close to expiry, a vaccination window that will not close in time, dates that collide with Hajj — you hear it at step one, not after you have paid.

Umrah visa processing time, and the deadlines that matter

We are not going to print a processing time, and you should be wary of pages that do. No Saudi authority publishes one. You will see "7 to 8 working days" and "5 to 7 working days" quoted on Pakistani travel sites, sometimes both on the same page, and neither figure has a source behind it.

What is published are the deadlines around the visa, and these are the ones that actually catch people out:

  • 15 days — the period allowed between the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah approving the request and the pilgrim attending the embassy to collect the visa, where that step applies.
  • 3 months — you must enter Saudi Arabia within three months of the visa's issue date.
  • 90 days — the stay permitted once you arrive. The Ministry states the duration of stay as 90 days and confirms the system will not extend beyond it.
  • No extension into Hajj. An Umrah visa cannot be extended for the Hajj season under any circumstances.

One official answer says 30 days, not 90

On the same Ministry FAQ, the answer about collecting a visa from a Saudi embassy reads: "Entry into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia must be within three (3) months from the date of visa issuance, and the stay in the Kingdom must not exceed thirty days, ending at the latest on 15 Dhu al-Qi'dah."

Three separate answers on that page give 90 days and one gives 30, and the 30-day answer is specifically about the embassy-collected route. We are showing you both rather than picking the convenient one. In practice it will not change your trip, because your stay is the length of the journey you booked and the maximum is a ceiling you will be nowhere near. Just do not build a plan on the ceiling.

On overstaying, we will not quote you a fine. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah states plainly that penalties for staying past visa expiry "does not fall within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah", and no authority publishes a figure we are willing to print. Treat your departure date as the real one.

What we will tell you is this: because the decision timing is not published and the entry window is three months, applying far in advance is not the safe strategy people assume. Give us your dates and we will tell you when to file for them.

The Nusuk permit — what surprises first-time pilgrims

The visa gets you into Saudi Arabia. It does not get you into the Haram to perform Umrah. For that you need a permit, booked in the Nusuk or Tawakkalna app, and the Ministry is clear that "booking permits for performing Umrah and praying in Al-Rawdah Al-Sharifah is required."

How it behaves, so none of it is a surprise when you land:

  • You can register from Pakistan once your visa is issued. Nusuk asks for passport number, visa number, date of birth, nationality, mobile number and email. Registering in Nusuk does not require Tawakkalna.
  • The permit is a fixed time slot. There is no feature to change it. You may cancel before it starts and book another; once it has started you must wait for it to expire. Arriving late means waiting it out.
  • Only one permit can be active at a time. If you see "Exceeded the maximum number of active permits", an earlier one is still live on your account or a companion's. This is also what governs repeat Umrah: no limit on how many you perform, but they queue one behind another.
  • Four companions may be added excluding dependents, with no limit on dependents. Worth planning before a large family group starts booking slots.

Ordinary prayer needs no permit. The Ministry: "Entering Al-Masjid Al-Haram for performing Umrah is linked to the permit time, but one can enter for prayer at any time." There is no prayer permit in Makkah at all.

Madinah works differently, and this one is worth knowing before you plan your days. Praying in the Rawdah Sharifah needs its own permit, and there is a 30-day interval between Rawdah visits — so one visit per trip for almost everyone. Visiting the Prophet's grave, peace be upon him, needs no booking, and the Ministry notes that sending salutations there is allowed for men only. Children are permitted in the courtyards of both mosques.

Women travelling without a mahram

You will be told different things about this by different people in Lahore, so here is what the documents say.

Saudi Arabia does not require a mahram for Umrah. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah's FAQ is one line long on it: "Is a woman allowed to come to perform Umrah without a mahram? — Yes, it is allowed."

Where the confusion comes from is older Pakistani paperwork, which carries a mahram clause worded "as per requirement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" — deferring to a Saudi requirement that no longer exists. The clause has outlived the rule it pointed at.

What is still true is that individual agencies apply their own policies, and some will not take a female client travelling alone whatever Saudi Arabia permits. If this applies to you, raise it in your first message to us so it is settled before any money changes hands rather than after.

Rules people get wrong

  • "You can only go to Makkah and Madinah." Wrong. The visa "allows the pilgrim to travel between Mecca, Medina, and all cities in the Kingdom during their permitted stay."
  • "You must fly in and out of the same airport." Wrong. You may enter and exit through any international or regional airport in the Kingdom, and enter by one means of transport and leave by another.
  • "You can only perform Umrah once per visa." Wrong. There is no limit on the number of times, and no fee for repeating it. The only constraint is the one-active-permit rule.
  • "Children can go at any age." No. The minimum age for an Umrah visa or permit is five years.
  • "Adults don't need the polio vaccine." No. The requirement applies regardless of age or prior vaccination status to everyone arriving from Pakistan.
  • "You have to give fingerprints before travelling." Not from Pakistan, as things stand. Saudi Arabia requires biometric pre-registration through the Saudi Visa Bio app for arrivals from the United Kingdom, Tunisia, Kuwait, Bangladesh and Malaysia. Pakistan is not on that published list as at 12 October 2026 — but the list has been growing, so we check it against your dates rather than assuming.
  • "You can extend your Umrah visa and stay for Hajj." No. The Ministry states the system does not allow it.

Applying for your Umrah visa through Breeze

What you are actually paying us for:

  • Checking your trip before you pay anything — dates against the Hajj season, vaccination windows against your departure, passport validity, and the three-month entry window.
  • Getting the sequence right. The visa is issued against confirmed accommodation and transport, so the order of operations decides whether it goes through cleanly or comes back for correction.
  • Reading your vaccination card properly — the two-vaccine requirement, the ten-day and four-week windows, and whether the vaccine's name is written on the certificate.
  • Setting up Nusuk and your permits, including the Rawdah permit in Madinah and the companion limit for family groups.
  • A written quote that shows the Saudi government fee separately from our charge, so you can see exactly what you are paying us for. We do not publish prices on this site because they move with airfare, season and hotel — we quote on the day you ask.
  • An office you can walk into. Office 20, Grand Millennium Hotel, 9-A Davis Road, Garhi Shahu, Lahore — and someone who answers the phone while you are away.

Once the visa is settled, our Umrah packages cover the rest of the journey: flights from Pakistan, hotels in Makkah and Madinah, intercity transport and Ziyarat.

What we will not do is promise you a visa. Umrah visa decisions belong to Saudi Arabia, and the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah itself notes that rejected Umrah visas fall under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rather than under it. We make no claim about approval rates and we guarantee no outcome.

Umrah visa questions

The questions people actually ask at the office. If yours is not here, send it on WhatsApp.

Ask about your Umrah visa
How much is the Umrah visa fee from Pakistan?
The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah publishes it as "a fee for issuing the Umrah visa, estimated at 300 Saudi Riyals." That is a Saudi government charge paid to Saudi Arabia, not to us, and the Ministry's own wording is "estimated at" with no date attached — so treat it as the published figure rather than a quotation. Our service charge is separate and we show the two apart on every quote.
What are the requirements for an Umrah visa from Pakistan?
Scans of your passport's first and second pages, your CNIC or Smart CNIC, one recent passport-size photograph, your vaccination certificate covering meningitis ACWY and polio, an emergency contact in Pakistan, and your travel dates with the number of travellers and ages of any children. Confirmed accommodation and transport are part of the application rather than something separate, because Saudi Arabia issues the visa against them — when you book with us, arranging those is our job.
How long does an Umrah visa take to process?
No Saudi authority publishes a processing time, so we will not print one. You will see "7 to 8 working days" and "5 to 7 working days" on Pakistani travel sites, sometimes both on the same page, with no source behind either. What is published are the deadlines: 15 days between ministry approval and collecting the visa where that step applies, and three months to enter after it is issued. Send us your dates and we will give you a realistic window for your season and tell you if the dates are too tight.
What vaccinations do I need for Umrah?
Two are mandatory for a traveller from Pakistan. Meningococcal ACWY — required of everyone from every country, at least 10 days before arrival, valid five years for a conjugate vaccine or three for a polysaccharide one. Polio, one dose of bOPV or IPV — because Pakistan is named in Saudi Arabia's wild-poliovirus table, and the requirement applies "regardless of age [or] prior vaccine status", so adults vaccinated as children are included. Take it at least four weeks before arrival. COVID-19 is required only for listed high-risk groups, seasonal influenza is recommended rather than required, and yellow fever does not apply from Pakistan.
Where do I get the polio vaccination certificate in Pakistan?
Through the National Immunisation Management Service. The Ministry of National Health Services states that NIH launched a certificate system through NIMS for polio and yellow fever vaccination "to meet international requirements", and that certificates can be downloaded from the NIMS website after paying a fee of Rs 100. One honest caveat: we could not verify from any official Saudi source that the NIMS certificate is accepted in place of the international yellow card. If your vaccinator can issue both, take both.
How long can I stay in Saudi Arabia on an Umrah visa?
Ninety days. The Ministry states the duration of stay as 90 days and confirms the system will not extend beyond it. One answer on the same FAQ says 30 days, in the context of collecting the visa from an embassy, and we flag that rather than hide it. In practice your stay is the length of the journey you booked — the maximum is a ceiling, not a plan. You must enter Saudi Arabia within three months of the visa being issued.
Can a woman perform Umrah without a mahram?
Saudi Arabia says yes. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah's FAQ answers the question "Is a woman allowed to come to perform Umrah without a mahram?" with "Yes, it is allowed." The mahram clause you may have heard about comes from older Pakistani paperwork worded "as per requirement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" — deferring to a requirement that no longer exists. Individual agencies still apply their own policies, so raise it with us at the start rather than after booking.
What is the minimum age for an Umrah visa?
Five years. The Ministry states that "the minimum age for issuing an Umrah visa or permit is 5 years", and that Umrah is allowed for those aged five and above. Children are permitted in the courtyards of both the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque, and there are two childcare sites for under-twelves within the Grand Mosque area.
Can I visit cities other than Makkah and Madinah?
Yes, and this is the most common misunderstanding in Pakistan. The Umrah visa "allows the pilgrim to travel between Mecca, Medina, and all cities in the Kingdom during their permitted stay." You may also enter and exit through any international or regional airport in the Kingdom, and enter by one means of transport and leave by another.
Can I perform Umrah more than once on the same visa?
Yes. There is no limit on the number of times, the Ministry confirms there are no fees for repeating Umrah, and more than one Umrah visa a year is allowed. The only constraint is the permit: one can be active at a time, so each Umrah waits for the previous permit to expire or be cancelled. In Madinah, praying in the Rawdah Sharifah needs its own permit and there is a 30-day interval between Rawdah visits — so for most trips, once.
Do I need to give fingerprints before travelling?
Not from Pakistan, as things stand. Saudi Arabia requires biometric pre-registration through the Saudi Visa Bio app for arrivals from the United Kingdom, Tunisia, Kuwait, Bangladesh and Malaysia. Pakistan is not on that published list as at 12 October 2026 — but the list has been expanding since it was introduced, so we check it against your travel dates rather than assuming it still holds.
Can you guarantee my Umrah visa?
No, and nobody honestly can. Umrah visas are issued by Saudi Arabia, and the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah notes that rejections fall under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rather than under it. We make no claim about approval rates and guarantee no outcome. What we are useful for is the part that is in our control: getting the documents and the sequence right, catching the vaccination and date problems before they become a cancelled trip, and telling you early if something will not work.

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About this page. Breeze Travels & Tours Pvt Ltd is a private travel agency in Lahore. We are not the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, the Saudi Ministry of Health, the Nusuk platform or the Saudi Embassy, and we do not issue visas or permits. Nothing on this page is legal or medical advice. We make no claim about approval rates and we guarantee no outcome. Saudi Arabia decides who is issued an Umrah visa and who is admitted at the border.

Rules, fees and health requirements last checked: 12 October 2026. Three things are deliberately not stated on this page because no official source publishes them: a visa processing time, a minimum passport validity, and a photograph specification. Two official Saudi sources disagree on whether health certificates are required and on whether the permitted stay is 90 or 30 days; both positions are shown above rather than resolved in our favour. Saudi Arabia reissues its Umrah health regulations each Hijri year and may add countries to the polio and biometric lists without notice, so confirm your own requirements for your travel dates before you fly.

Official sources used on this page:

Send us your passport scan and your dates

That is enough to start. We will check your dates against the Hajj season and your vaccination timing, tell you the same day whether the trip works, and give you a written quote with the Saudi government fee shown separately from our charge.

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