The Saudi Arabia authorities through its Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has said that it will continue to monitor and follow up on the regulatory conditions of the Umrah companies and establishments, in order to see that they fulfill all conditions and requirements for Umurah just has about 750,000 pilgrims world-over performed Umurah in the month of Safar.

We gathered that the Ministry recently created a worldwide network for receiving and issuing Umarah visas under the Ministry of Interior and Foreign Affairs.

Now, the ministry’s Umrah e-track service will help in keeping track of arrival and departure of pilgrims, standard of services offered by Umrah companies and agents.

We gathered that the authorities will monitor the final departure of Umrah pilgrims and ensure they exit on time from the ports where they arrived.

This will be accomplished through monitoring by electronic system to the departures, starting from the time of registering the date of departure, to preparing the Umrah pilgrims for departure to putting them in buses heading toward the airports in a timely manner.

It is expected that current Umrah season which began on December 4 last year and will go on till the end of Ramadan in the last week of July is expected to attract over six million pilgrims world-over.