Orpheus

You can perform umrah on a visit visa.

By chance someone posted this very question in another forum and this is what was said.

There are checkpoints before you enter Makkah & Madinah - I drove through a few of them and wasn't stopped.

However if you get stopped and don't have a Visa, I can see you having problems!

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An Umra Visa entitles you to visit Makkah and Madinah only and transit through Jedda because that is where the airport is. Officially, therefore, you are not allowed to visit Jeddah on an Umra visa but no one bothers as long as you have your legal papers with you such as the passport.

An Umra Visa is time specific. It is also a package specific as of last year which ended with Ramadan a few days ago.

A Visitor Visa too is time limited but is rarely a multiple entry one.

So, if you have a visitor visa you can safely go and perform your umra irrespective of where your visitor's visa is intended for such as, for example, Dammam, Tabuk or Riyadh etc.

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