{"id":114384,"date":"2025-04-28T22:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/?p=114384"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:22:24","slug":"114384","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2025\/04\/114384\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saudi government has suspended Hajj visas for people from 14 countries, including Somalia."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of the 2025 Hajj, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has temporarily banned the issuance of visas to citizens from 14 countries, including: Iran, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Somalia, Congo, Libya and Sudan.<\/p>\n

The move is part of efforts to enhance security and manage the number of people attending one of the world\u2019s largest religious gatherings.<\/p>\n

According to the new regulations, people from these countries will not be granted Umrah or visit visas during the Hajj season. In addition, citizens found to be overstaying their visas in Saudi Arabia face severe penalties including fines, imprisonment, and deportation.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has also strongly warned all visitors to abide by immigration laws, reminding that violations can be punishable by severe penalties.<\/p>\n

The new regulations are part of Saudi Arabia\u2019s efforts to ensure the safety and order of this year\u2019s Hajj.<\/p>\n

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Ahead of the 2025 Hajj, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has temporarily banned the issuance of visas to citizens from 14 countries, including: Iran, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Somalia, Congo, Libya and Sudan. The move is part of efforts to enhance security and manage the number of people attending one of the world\u2019s largest religious gatherings. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhacdoyinka-caalamka","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114398,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114384\/revisions\/114398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}