How to Check a Saudi Visa Online in 2026 (And Which System to Use)

Which system should you actually use?

Saudi Arabia runs several visa systems and they are not interchangeable. Picking the wrong one is the single most common reason somebody decides their visa has disappeared, when in fact they are searching a database that was never going to hold it.

Work out which of these describes you.

You applied from outside Saudi Arabia, through an embassy, a consulate or an agency. Use the Ministry of Foreign Affairs platform at visa.mofa.gov.sa. It holds visit, business, family, Umrah and Hajj visas issued to people abroad, and it is the authoritative record for them.

You hold a tourist eVisa issued through Visit Saudi. Verify it on the platform that issued it, at visa.visitsaudi.com. Tourist eVisas live in their own system, which is why so many people search MOFA, find nothing, and panic unnecessarily.

You are a resident inside the Kingdom, or a sponsor checking someone you sponsor. Absher and Muqeem are your systems. Both require a one-time code sent to a Saudi mobile number, so neither is any use to you while you are abroad with a foreign SIM. If a guide tells you to use Absher to check a visit visa from overseas, it has not thought the instruction through.

Everything below assumes the first two cases, because that is where almost everyone reading this will sit.

Is Enjaz still working?

No. The Enjaz portal that a great many guides still recommend no longer exists.

Checking on 11 September 2026, the enjazit.com.sa domain does not resolve at all. It is not slow, and it is not blocking visitors. The domain has been removed from the naming system entirely, while other Saudi government visa domains continue to respond normally from the same connection.

This matters because Enjaz was for years the place people were told to look, and a search today still returns step-by-step instructions for a site that cannot be reached. If you have been following one of those guides and getting nowhere, that is why. Nothing is wrong with your application.

The visa types Enjaz used to handle are now served through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs platform. Go there instead.

How do you check on the MOFA portal?

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs runs the lookup at visa.mofa.gov.sa. It is free, and no intermediary can tell you anything it does not already show you.

Two practical points before you start, because both catch people out.

The page loads in Arabic by default, with an English toggle in the corner. Switch it before you begin rather than guessing at the fields. And the form asks you to combine two identifying values rather than one, choosing each from a dropdown. Your options include the visa number, the passport number, the application number, a Hajj Ministry reference number, and the first name. You then select nationality and enter the image verification code.

The most reliable pairing for most people is passport number plus nationality, because those are the two details nobody mislays.

If the page will not load at all, wait an hour and try again. Government platforms take maintenance windows, and an outage says nothing about your application.

Can you check using only a passport number?

Almost. You will pair the passport number with your nationality, and that combination is enough.

Enter the passport number exactly as printed, including any letters and leading zeros, and select the nationality that issued the document rather than the country you live in. That second point trips up a lot of expatriate applicants: a Pakistani national living in Dubai selects Pakistan, not the United Arab Emirates.

Get either field wrong and the system returns nothing at all rather than an error explaining the mismatch. That blank result is what convinces people their visa was refused, when the real problem is a typo or the wrong nationality in a dropdown.

How do you verify a tourist eVisa?

Tourist eVisas are verified on the platform that issued them, at visa.visitsaudi.com, not on the MOFA lookup.

This is the distinction that causes the most needless alarm. Someone receives a tourist eVisa, searches MOFA, finds no record, and assumes they have been defrauded. The visa is perfectly valid. It simply is not held in the database they searched.

If you are unsure which kind you hold, check the document itself. A tourist eVisa issued through the Saudi eVisa system says so on its face.

What if your visa does not appear at all?

Work through these in order, because the likely explanations run from mundane to serious.

Start with the details. A mistyped passport number, a missing letter, or the wrong nationality all return an empty result. Re-enter everything slowly and check each character against the passport itself rather than from memory.

Then check you are in the right system. A tourist eVisa will not appear on MOFA, and an embassy-issued visit visa will not appear on Visit Saudi.

Then consider timing. A visa that has not been issued yet has no record to find. If your application is still being processed, an empty result is exactly what you should expect.

Only once you have ruled out all three should you treat a blank result as a warning sign. At that point, go back to whoever supplied the document and ask them to show you the record in an official system.

Why has nothing changed since you applied?

Because these systems reflect decisions, not progress. The record updates when the authority decides, and shows nothing meaningful while the application sits in a queue.

Checking twice a day tells you nothing and costs you a fortnight of worry. Processing also slows noticeably around the Umrah and Hajj seasons, when application volumes rise sharply, and for nationalities subject to extra checks.

Give it a full week of working days before you start chasing. If you applied through an agency rather than directly, that is who should be chasing on your behalf.

How do you tell whether a Saudi visa is genuine?

By finding it in an official system. That is the only test that means anything, and it takes two minutes.

Look the visa up on the MOFA platform or the Visit Saudi verification page using your passport number. If no record exists under your details, the document is not a valid visa, however convincing it appears. Layout, seals, stamps, barcodes and official-looking fonts prove nothing at all. They are the easiest part to fake.

This is worth doing even when you have no particular reason to be suspicious. Saudi visa fraud is common enough that travellers are turned away at airline check-in holding paperwork they bought in good faith, and the first they learn of it is at the desk. The cost of checking is two minutes. The cost of not checking is the trip.

Any legitimate provider will encourage you to verify independently, because a genuine visa survives the check. We would rather you looked than took our word for it. If you are still at the stage of applying, you can start an application and see exactly what you are paying for before you commit.