Your family's visas in Saudi Arabia

Your family's visa is tied to your own residency: for a resident, the family's visa lasts for the validity period of the resident's own residency.
A visit is a different visa: MOFA's family visit page says a family visit is for first-degree relatives (parents, wife, children), and the resident needs a work iqama, not a dependant's.
You apply on the KSA Visa Platform for both.

Checked 8 November 2026

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Two visas, two jobs

The Residence Visa is for family who will live with you. The family visit visa is for a visit.

Bring your family to Saudi Arabia gives the steps and the documents for each, and the Residence Visa fee.

Your own iqama sets how long your family's Residence Visa lasts. Who pays to renew your iqama covers your own renewal.