Delaying in visa stamping from Saudi Embassy in Karachi

Karachi consulate has stopped accepting the passports due to workload. Can anyone confirm??

Yes it is true . i ALSO hear from agent for a one week they stopped collect passports

Report Date: 12-03-2015

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Dear Brothers

i received my visa after stamping from karachi embassy Alhumdullilah best of luck to you all it takes time but surely you all will get inshAllah i submiteed by case in 9th jan 2015 after two months received   good news

Alhamd u Lillah, visa issued today. Many thanks to Allah almighty.  Many thanks to all friends on forum.

Report Date: 13-03-2015

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My Application date is 03 February 2015 and still waiting...Looking forward for the Good News Soon!

Sm abbasi bro... can i take ur cell num...? i want to ask some more about visa  on call if u dont mind so...

My company give deadline for visa process 25 march but my agent still not visa application submit again in embassy. Too much disappointed with this situation.

mtz tiger bro so its mean if embassy has stopped to collect the passport for one week due to workload so i want to ask that its means that which passport has already collect, spouse my passport is submit 7feb so i mean to say which passport has already collect the embassy will stamp first them with in one week and after stamping pending passports then will collect new passport m i right,,,,,,.....? or any other so tell here if any bro.. know about it..... waiting for reply all bro's....
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bro so its mean if embassy has stopped to collect the passport for one week due to workload so i want to ask that its means that which passport has already collect, spouse my passport is submit 7feb so i mean to say which passport has already collect the embassy will stamp first them with in one week and after stamping pending passports then will collect new passport m i right,,,,,,.....? or any other so tell here if any bro.. know about it..... waiting for reply all bro's....
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090 bro tell me
bro so its mean if embassy has stopped to collect the passport for one week due to workload so i want to ask that its means that which passport has already collect, spouse my passport is submit 7feb so i mean to say which passport has already collect the embassy will stamp first them with in one week and after stamping pending passports then will collect new passport m i right,,,,,,.....? or any other so tell here if any bro.. know about it..... waiting for reply all bro's....
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Akash Raza wrote:

090 bro tell me
bro so its mean if embassy has stopped to collect the passport for one week due to workload so i want to ask that its means that which passport has already collect, spouse my passport is submit 7feb so i mean to say which passport has already collect the embassy will stamp first them with in one week and after stamping pending passports then will collect new passport m i right,,,,,,.....? or any other so tell here if any bro.. know about it..... waiting for reply all bro's....
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Bro im not sure about it, nor can anyone be i guess. The only authentic info about how the consulate operates can be only be given by a person who works there. Agents may tell you 100 stories which may all be false.
So lets hope what u r saying is true and embassy stamps all the pending ones before collecting new passports

009 bro...by the way whts ur opinion about it mean stop to collect new passport due to workload...? mean according to ur exp
will they stamp pending passports first and then after one week they will collect new passport.. because  the main reason to stop the collect of passport due to workload so its mean they will stamp first pending and then newer's collect....
whats ur opinion not confirm but ur opinion about it...
if any body knows so reply must.. about his opinion...

theak bro mera visa 18 feb ko lagne gya tha kya koe bta sakta kub tak.mera visa lag sakta he

I would advise all the members who are waiting for more than a month to raise their voice through the official channel of Saudi ministry of foreign affairs, so that they take an action on the delays, and make sure the visas are stamped soon.

Please make a complain on the following link so that it can be heard:
http://www.mofa.gov.sa/sites/mofaen/Mai … dback.aspx

Alhumdullilah After taking Serious class of my Agent Next day my Status change After 40 days on enjazat (vissa issued)...now waiting for passport
Guys embassy took 1or maximum 2 days for stamping visa ...late procejors and all that bullshits due to those bastards Agencies United or other agents cuz in Pakistan where ever Agents are sitting they send our visas applications to these agencies cuz they are not authorise to send directly to embassy..so the Villian of in this sitaution Is United agency ...

congrats dear. Please share the whole story.

Can anyone tell me that how much time it takes to issue visa if the status changes to request under working???

Report Date: 16-03-2015

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manihere001 wrote:

Can anyone tell me that how much time it takes to issue visa if the status changes to request under working???

Normally 1-5 working days.. Has your status been changed to Request under working?

All,

Looks like now a days getting Saudi Arabia visa is not less than getting visa of USA. I believed the problem is agency between embassy and agents. They will randomly select the passport and send to embassy who's passport get out this visa pool get visa quickly. I have seen visa chart people who applied in Feb and Jan is that you applied for first time for KSA or you had previous visa stamps in your passport.

I seen some other guys who submitted application in Karachi Consulate 19th and stamped there visa 2nd week of March interesting things are happening i applied today let see how long mine will take.

Stay tune!

0090 wrote:

Report Date: 16-03-2015

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I got to know from a very reliable source that today karachi consulate has taken 4000 pending cases from poepa (united group), including all the cases submitted there in Jan and Feb. So hopefully all will be cleared this week or the next week (assuming your passport is among these 4000 passports).

Also, its poepa where most of our passports were piled up and not forwarded to the consulate. Agents just tell us stories that the passports are in consulate, however in real our passports are lying in poepa. If a passport is sent to the consulate, it gets processed within a week, there is no delay in consulate. All the delay is in poepa

bro thanks but what is poepa

Its an organization which collects all the passports from all the agents of pakistan and forwards them to the saudi consulate as per their daily requirements.
So the agents do not directly deal with the saudi consulate, its poepa which acts as a middleman for all the agents and saudi consulate

Dear0090
would you please reconfirm that .because we got new here in forum that embassy or PEOPA stop receving passport for a Week

??

Today artical in Express Tribune

KARACHI: I would like to bring to attention of the quarters concerned the inordinate delay in the stamping of work visas at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Karachi. According to travel agents, this is due to a huge backlog of passports which has accumulated there in previous months with the reason for this remaining unknown.
The normal processing time for work visa stamping used to be five to seven days till 2014. However, since January 2015, the consulate is taking an average of two months to stamp a work visa. This is causing serious problems to applicants who have job offers from Saudi Arabia since their employers are often not ready to wait that long for the visa stamping of their would-be employees. Many companies end up taking back their job offers. Moreover, there is no way the progress of an application can be tracked. An applicant having submitted his or her passport through an authorised person cannot track the progress, status and location of his passport. In addition, applicants are not allowed to contact or approach the consulate directly, and only authorised agents can submit the passports and collect them.
The Saudi consulate is clearly working in a haphazard manner. The media needs to raise this issue since applicants for jobs in Saudi Arabia are helpless, with no one there to hear their concern and many are losing their job offers as a result of the delay and inefficiency of the Saudi consulate personnel in Karachi.
(Name withheld at the writer’s request)
Published in The Express Tribune, March  17th,  2015.

Dear All
please post this problem to all media via email, fax, or call , only once they raise the voice hope our problem ll be solved. i request you to send your query to Samaa, Dunya News, AaJ news, ARY News

yes tanveer bro i agree with you 009 bro mera pasport 18 feb ko gya tha kya koe chance he 10 din tak lag ke a gae

tanveerabbas86 wrote:

Dear0090
would you please reconfirm that .because we got new here in forum that embassy or PEOPA stop receving passport for a Week

??

Yes the embassy stopped taking passports last week, however today it took 4000 passports from poepa.
So they wont take further passports for a week atleast until they process these 4000 passports.
As per my understanding, the consulate is now taking large number of passports after every 5-10 days instead of the previous practice of taking small numbers daily. This will ensure that there are no old cases being stuck inside peopa due to huge volumes.
Taking small number daily was leading to some old cases being ignored and being stuck inside poepa for long time.
I hope my understanding and conclusion is true!

Report Date: 17-03-2015

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0090 bro thankx for information and bro.islambad embasy me bi kya aisa ho ra mere dost ka visa 15  din ho ge he abi tak ni.lag ke aia

or bro visa resumbent keo krna parta kya problem banti he

Finally a word in the press too!

http://tribune.com.pk/story/854221/dela … udi-visas/

Yes let see and watch we have no option.

Islamabad has same problem started now but processing times are 10-15 days less then Karachi.

My medical exp to 7 april .abi tak visa ni laga.

Khancha mai jamah kerwana tha wo jaldi lag rehy han.narmal welya kismat per depend kerta hai.kab lga ga.

usmanza wrote:

yes tanveer bro i agree with you 009 bro mera pasport 18 feb ko gya tha kya koe chance he 10 din tak lag ke a gae

.ap na arjent khanchy mai jamah kerwana tha.to jaldi lag k a jata.narmal waly 2.ma 3ma kuch logo ko 5 ma tak ho gy han abi tak nhi lag k aya.