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Issue exit re-entry visa for your dependants through the mobile phone messages SMS.
Issuance of Exit Reentry visa

Issue exit reentry visa for your dependants through the mobile phone messages SMS
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Saudi Telecom
For the first time in the Saudi Arabia you can now issue an exit reentry visa for a single trip through the mobile phone via SMS for your dependants, all that during you normal day-to-day life without waiting in long queues or face the trouble of overcrowding in a record period of time.
This service is one of the most important services provided by Ishaar to all segments of society from citizens and residents in the Saudi Arabia.


You can issue Exit Reentry visa through the following numbers: 88922 STC users : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

First, Registration in Ishaar services to get the security code:

1- Registration
To register you have to fill the registration form singe it and attached a copy of your ID and then hand it over to one of the registration centers by yourself.
Registration process is to link you number of mobile phone number to you ID number.

2- Activation
After registration you have to send your ID number to 88900 to activate the subscription and you will receive back a message to welcome you and informing you that you have become a member in Ishaar services.

3- Getting the security code 
After that the security code will be sent to you via SMS, to become a users of the latest e-service system in the Saudi Arabia, We advise to keep the security code in a safe place outside and away from mobile phone to ensure your protection and privacy, and not to allow unauthorized people to use your mobile.

Registration centers
Registration after now available at:
1 – Passports department Building -Riyadh - Makkah - Madinah - Jeddah - Dammam
2 - Passports Service centers  available in malls  in Riyadh (Sahara Mall - Flamengo Mall ) and in Jeddah (Tahlyah Mall).
2 - The e-Gate Office in the King Khaled International Airport - International Terminal


Customers can subscribe through the electronic services portal of the Samba bank.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Second, The execution of the service to issue a visa for your dependants send by sending SMS to Short Code 88922:

1 – The following conditions should be met before executing the service:
Payment of governmental fees:
Governmental fees 200 SR should be paid using traditional ways to the dependant ID number, such as through bank accounts or ATM machines to be able to execute the service.
You can make sure of you financial balance at the Passport department by sending a message to Short code 88988 for STC customers contains: 11 * dependant ID Number

No traffic violations registered on the resident:
The Dependant must pay all Traffic violations registered on its ID by the traffic department.
To know the number and cost of traffic violations registered your dependant, send ID number to short code 88993 for STC customers or send the number 56 then * symbol then ID number of the dependant to short code 625555 for Mobily customers.

Provide a fingerprint by the resident:
the registration of the vital characteristics of the residents have been linked to the issuance of a exit reentry visa, therefore, a fingerprint must be available in the system of Passport Department by the dependant prior to the execution of issuance service.
All non-Saudi residents must go to one of the Passport Department offices in order to provide their fingerprints only one time for male and aged over 18 years residents.

The expiry date of residence:
You must be the residency (Iqama) of the resident effective and be valid for more than the duration of a exit reentry visa by at least three months and fourteen days (104 days).
For example, who wants to issue a visa for a period of 30 days residency (Iqama) must be valid for a period of not less than 134 days, either If he wanted to issue a visa for a period of 180 days, residency (Iqama) must be valid for a period of not less than 284 days, and because the period of validity of the visa is three months before travel. That is why those who have residency (Iqama) validity is 3 months or less can’t use the service, but they can visit the Passport department offices to obtain a visa.

And to know the expiry date of the residency (Iqama) of the dependant, send a text message containing 12* sponsor ID Number * residency (Iqama) number to short code 88909 for STC customers

Updated passport information:
Be sure to update your dependant passport details in the Passport Department System and it is valid in the Pssports Department Systems. And to know of the expiry date of the passport as in jawazat system send a text message containing (13 * ID Number * the expiry date of the residency (Iqama) in the following format yyyy-mm-dd),

Example: 13*9999999999*1431-10-22 to short code 88909 for STC customers


2 – Mobile phone should be charged with financial balance:
Mobile phone must be charges with a balance of 20 SR to pay for the execution of transaction

Service cost SAR 20
3 – Executing the service:
To Issue an Exit reentry visa send to short code 88922
A SMS message containing the letter I and then the symbol *, then residency (Iqama) number (the traveler), then the symbol *, then period of the visa in days, then the symbol * security code.
I * residency (Iqama) number* period of the visa from 15 days to 180 * security
Example: I*1234567890*150*11223344

Service cost SAR 20

To cancel the visa, you must send the letter C followed the visa holder to residency (Iqama) number and then security code , which is another service provided by Ishaar for transactions.
C* residency (Iqama) number*security code
Example: C*1234567890*11223344

Service cost SAR 20

4 – At Ishaar:
After sending the message to the short code, the system thus:
• make sure that the mobile phone number is registered in Ishaar notification services and interactive services are active.
• Verification of that sent residency Iqama number is registered in the subscriber’s record as dependent.
• Make sure that security code is registered and active.
• Verification of the possibility of providing service to the resident through Passport Department.



5 - Confirmation of the request:
After investigating all of the conditions for issuance, you will receive a SMS message containing dependants' information to verify it is correct to continue with the process of issuance.
In the case all the information are correct, to confirm your request, please send: 1 to short code 88922, and must reply within a period not exceeding 24 hours or it the request will be canceled automatically.

The transaction fees will be deducted from you Mobile phone balance after confirmation which is 20 SR
In case information is not correct and you wish to cancel the request. Please send number 2 to short code 88922.

6 - Printing the visa:
Congratulations, exit reentry visa have been issued, all you need to do now is to print it and give it to the traveling dependant to go to the airport in preparation for travel, you can print the visa from the following website at any time http://sms.evisa.com.sa  by entering the visa number and confirmation number sent to the mobile at the end of the process of issuance.

In the case of the loss of the confirmation number or visa number, you can request to re-send them by sending a free message to short code 88922 containing the letter R and then * then residency (Iqama) number then * then the security code to be re-sent

Example: No. R*residence*safety code

7 - At the airport or borderline:
At the airport or borderlines, you must show the printed visa to the passport officer to stamp it with the passport stamp for going out Saudi Arabia and the paper should be retained until it is stamped again with the entry stamp upon return.

In the case of loss of paper a person can re-print it from the site http://sms.evisa.com.sa

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