Assistant Minister of foreign affairs for Executive Affairs Abdulhadi bin Ahmed Al-Mansouri today launched the unified national visa platform (KSA visa) at the Digital Government Forum in its second edition.

The national platform is concerned with connecting more than 30 ministries, authorities and the private sector to facilitate the procedures for obtaining visas: Hajj, Umrah, business, tourism and work.

Among the most important actions that have been taken on the platform are: automation of the most important visa issuance procedures in order to improve the visitor experience, a smart search engine to enable the visitor to easily find out the available visas, a unified reference has been added to identify the requirements of all types of visas and the mechanism for applying for them, in addition to an updated visitor profile that facilitates reviewing visas and re-applying to them later, and adding a modern identity commensurate with the role of the national platform in enabling the kingdom's targets.
Among the additions made to the platform are the activation of artificial intelligence technologies and emerging technologies to validate data and raise the efficiency of the platform.