The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has mandated VFS TasHeel International with managing and administrating the Saudi Arabian visa application process from Nigeria.
It will also combine the mandatory enrolment process of fingerprint collection and photo capture for all applicants.
The company in a statement said it will begin processing Saudi visas of various categories except for Hajj and Umrah.
It said pilgrims who have applied for Saudi visas are required to do biometric enrolment at the VFS TasHeel centre.
VFS TasHeel is a joint venture between
the global visa processing leader, VFS Global (A division of Kuoni
Travel Group, Switzerland) and TasHeel, Saudi Arabia.
Charge D’ affairs of the Embassy of the
kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Nigeria, Sa’ad Abdallah Alnofeai, stated that
“The newly inaugurated Visa Services Centers in Nigeria will serve
people who desire to visit the KSA in addition to providing them with
vital information about the Kingdom.”
Services include the dissemination of
visa information, application guidance, application pro-cessing,
biometric enrolment and passport delivery.
