TO accommodate the growing demand for visa services, specifically for employment and tourism transactions, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has opened regional visa services centers in three Philippine cities.
The KSA has commissioned VFS TasHeel International, an enterprise mandated with managing and administering the visa-application process on behalf of the KSA Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
VFS TasHeel International said its visa services centers in Manila, Davao and Cebu are now fully operational and have started processing visa applications.
“We are pleased to be fulfilling the role assigned to us by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is to facilitate a smooth, streamlined visa-application process for travelers to the kingdom. The new visa services centers in the Philippines offer visa applicants a full array of streamlined visa services, all of which are technologically driven and adhering to high standards of security and information confidentiality,” said Ajit Alexander, CEO of VFS TasHeel International.
The VFS TasHeel centers in the Philippines will process various categories of visa permits, including resident, educational, personal, commercial visits, etc., with the exception of Hajj, Umrah and work visas.
Pilgrims and work-visa applicants will continue to process their visas through private tour operators in the country, and will be required to complete the biometric enrollment procedure at the VFS TasHeel Visa Services Centers.
Biometrics enrollment includes collection of fingerprints, facial image and biographic details, such as passport information.
Acting as a mediator between visa applicants and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of KSA, VFS TasHeel offers services, such as dissemination of accurate visa information, application guidance, fee management, identity management with biometrics enrollment and application submission.
In Cebu the VFS TasHeel office is located at Insular Square Mall, 31 JP Rizal Street, Tabok, Mandaue City, Cebu.
Other visa services centers in the Philippines are now in operation and located at DY International Building, General Malvar Street, corner San Marcelino streets, Malate, Manila, and at Plaza De Luisa, Luisa Avenue Building, Jacinto Extension, Davao City.
Established in 2012, VFS TasHeel is a joint venture between the global visa-processing leader VFS Global and TasHeel of the KSA. Headquartered in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, VFS TasHeel is chartered to offer its services in 33 countries across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
10 comments
Hello,
I just visited the mandaue city office of VFS Tasheel International, it was closed without notification of relocation address.
Can you please send me the new address in Cebu City and contact number. I really need help in visa stamping.
Thank you very much.
Hello sir Haydee,
did you get what you want…i also need help same like yours?
thank you
i,want to know if im banned or not in ksa?For how many,years ?and when it started?
Banned if you have criminal records or deported by immigration
Hi Sir , Sir I just want to extend my visa back to Saudi Arabia and my Employer make a letter for my visa extention. And my employer advice me to visit in Saudi Arabia Embassy. But in my part Sir is not for me to teavel to Manila.I just want to know if I can visit in CEBU VFS tasheel office to process my visa extension..
Sir how can we contact the saudi embassy in davao, contact no. Pls
Dear Sir, I am Mr. Bryan, I have my wife visit visa already. We need to process this visa within this month, But my wife tried to visit several time in Mandaue Cebu that located before. Suddenly they close the VFS tasheel office. So kindly send us the exact location for your new office so that we can undergo for next step which stamping of my wife visa. FOR YOUR INFO this is not first time that i process my wife visa in Cebu.
Thanks
Bryan
Hello..mg process pd onta mi ug visa pra ksa..asa mo nga agency ng process?
HELLO SIR, MY HUSBAND HAS AN EXPIRED VISA GOING BACK TO SAUDI BEC OF COVID 19, IF HIS EMPLOYER WILL GIVE ANOTHER VISA, DO HE HAVE TO STILL GO TO YOUR OFFICE? OR HE CAN REBOOK HIS TICKET AND MAKE THE SWAB TEST? THANK YOU FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY..MUCH APPRECIATED
Please kindly send your exact office location