RIYAD (Web Desk) – Saudi Arabian Shoura Council has called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to consider issuing business visas to genuine businessmen without insisting on certificates of Saudi sponsorship to visit the Kingdom.
According to Assistant Speaker Yahya Al-Samaan, the council called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to coordinate with the Council of Saudi Chambers to conduct regular studies on the degree of satisfaction among the beneficiaries of business visas issued to them in their respective countries.
The council urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to create a database related to international agreements and conventions, and support them with qualified legal officers. These cadres can properly deal with these issues in a way that can serve the interest of the Kingdom and furnish each government agency with agreements concerning that particular agency to revise, activate and give guidance on them.
It also called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to conduct studies on scholarship students abroad and other Saudis permanently residing in foreign countries in terms of their social and economic conditions.
The council called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to draw up a funding program that will help the ministry’s employees working abroad to own housing units in the Kingdom on an easy installment basis whereby the Ministry will bear costs of funding under certain conditions.
