Also worth knowing
A distinct Hajj/Umrah pilgrimage visa category exists outside the scope of the ordinary tourism rules described here and in seeds/saudi_arabia_visa_rules.sql, applied for through the Nusuk platform, with its own requirements (for example, a Muslim woman traveling for pilgrimage must be accompanied by an adult male relative, or be 45 or older traveling with a same age female group). Separately, a GCC Unified Tourist Visa, a Schengen style single visa valid across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman, was announced in September 2025 but was not confirmed as actually implemented in this research, a planned rather than a current fact