The General Directorate of Passports announced that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has received via air, sea, and ports more than 1.3 million pilgrims over the current season of pilgrimage for 1444 H.A year.
The Saudi news agency quoted the statement released by the Passports authority as saying that foreign pilgrims who came via airports amounted to 1.280 million, meanwhile, those who came via land ports amounted to 57 thousand pilgrims.
The Saudi authority affirmed it uses all means to facilitate formalities of hosting guests of the kingdom through platforms furnished with sophisticated gadgets along with qualified staff fluent in many foreign languages who were deployed in all sorts of ports.