Saudi Arabia’s eVisa costs SAR 535, about $142, and the only place to pay it is visa.visitsaudi.com. Not saudisevisa.com. Not visitsaudiarabiavisa.com. Not ksavisa.com, even though that one’s confusingly close to a name Saudi Arabia’s own government uses. This site has covered the eVisa-scam playbook across a dozen countries now — Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Brazil — and Saudi Arabia is overdue for the same treatment. It’s a required-eVisa destination for Americans, there’s no visa-free option, and right now there’s an active cluster of lookalike domains with real fraud complaints attached to them.

Here’s the part that makes this one worth a close read even if you’ve seen the pattern before: two of the fake sites aren’t just generic clones. One has published a public disclaimer specifically distancing itself from another scam-adjacent site with an almost identical name. The other is squatting on a near-match of the actual domain Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs named in its own fraud warning two weeks into 2026. This isn’t a hypothetical risk. It’s a naming collision the scammers are actively working.

Quick Facts: Saudi Arabia eVisa 2026

Detail	Info
Official portal	visa.visitsaudi.com, Saudi Arabia’s tourist eVisa platform
Total cost	SAR 535 (~$142 USD): SAR 300 visa fee + SAR 180 mandatory medical insurance + SAR 55 platform charge
Visa-on-arrival cost	SAR 480 (~$128), available at Saudi airports, no platform fee
Who needs it	US citizens and most other nationalities — no visa-free entry to Saudi Arabia
Validity	1 year from issuance, multiple entries
Stay limit	Up to 90 days per visit
Passport rule	Valid at least 6 months beyond entry date
Named risky domains	saudisevisa.com (32/100 trust score, blacklisted), visitsaudiarabiavisa.com, ksavisa.com
Official MOFA visa hub	ksavisa.sa — named directly in a January 29, 2026 government fraud warning

In one sentence: Saudi Arabia’s tourist eVisa costs SAR 535 (about $142) exclusively at visa.visitsaudi.com, and a cluster of similarly-named sites — some blacklisted, some just overcharging — are actively confusing travelers who search for it.

What Is Saudi Arabia’s eVisa?

The Saudi eVisa is the electronic tourist authorization that lets eligible nationalities, including US citizens, enter Saudi Arabia for tourism, Umrah outside Hajj season, family visits, or events, without a paper visa processed at a consulate. It’s applied for entirely online through visa.visitsaudi.com, the platform run under Saudi Arabia’s tourism authority, and most approvals land within a day or two.

There’s no visa-free entry for Americans here. Unlike some of the eTA-style destinations covered elsewhere on this site — the UK, Kenya — Saudi Arabia isn’t waiving anything. If you’re American and the Kingdom is on your 2026 list, whether for Riyadh, AlUla, the Red Sea coast, or Jeddah’s old city, the eVisa is the one non-negotiable step before you book anything else.

How Much Does It Actually Cost?

Saudi Arabia’s eVisa totals SAR 535, roughly $142 at current exchange rates, broken into three pieces: a SAR 300 government visa fee, SAR 180 for mandatory medical insurance covering up to SAR 100,000 in emergency care, and a SAR 55 platform processing charge. Skip the online application and get a visa on arrival instead, and the total drops to SAR 480, about $128, because there’s no platform fee attached to that route.

That’s the number to hold onto. SAR 535, or $142. Not $200. Not “$142 plus a service fee that somehow becomes $250 at checkout.” A legitimate visa-assistance company disclosing an add-on fee upfront is one thing — plenty of the eVisa scam posts on this site cover that distinction. A site quoting a different base total, or adding unexplained charges after you’ve already entered your passport number, is the problem this post is actually about.

The saudisevisa.com Problem

saudisevisa.com carries a 32/100 trust score and a blacklist warning from security scanners at Gridinsoft. The domain was registered October 23, 2025 — which by itself isn’t damning, plenty of legitimate visa-assistance sites are young — but combined with what Trustpilot reviewers describe, it’s a pattern worth taking seriously. Multiple users report paying, then watching their application status sit permanently at “In Process,” with an order number that comes back unrecognized when checked against Saudi MOFA or VisitSaudi’s own portals. Others describe non-working contact emails, no working phone line, and a confirmation email that leads nowhere once support goes quiet.

Here’s the wrinkle that makes this specific case worth flagging on its own: saudievisa.com, a separate company, published a public disclaimer explicitly distancing itself from saudisevisa.com. The statement is blunt about it: “Saudievisa.com and Saudisevisa.com are not the same company and are not connected in any way.” The disclaimer exists because saudievisa.com had been fielding angry reviews meant for its similarly-spelled neighbor — one dropped “e,” and customers couldn’t tell them apart. Neither site is a government portal (both operate as independent visa-assistance agencies, and neither is Saudi Arabia’s Ministry-run eVisa platform), but only one of them felt the need to publicly clarify it wasn’t the other. That should tell you something about how bad the confusion around this name pair got.

Two More Lookalikes, Two More Complaint Trails

visitsaudiarabiavisa.com shows up in reviews with a recognizable shape: promises of visas in two or three days, an “express” fee tacked on for the privilege, and customers who then wait a week or more with a WhatsApp support line that reportedly goes silent once the payment clears. Automated scam scanners disagree on this one (one puts its trust score around 72/100, another flags it as low-confidence), which is exactly the kind of ambiguous signal that makes a website’s name — visitsaudiarabiavisa.com, versus the real visa.visitsaudi.com — the thing you actually have to get right, not a score you saw on a checker site.

ksavisa.com is the more pointed case, because it’s squatting on a near-match of a domain Saudi Arabia’s own government named as official. On January 29, 2026, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a fraud warning on its official X account, stating that the Kingdom’s Unified National Visa Platform — reachable at ksavisa.sa — is the only trustworthy site for visa services, and urging users to verify any link before entering personal or payment details. ksavisa.com, the .com version one keystroke away from the real .sa address, has its own trail of Trustpilot complaints: travelers reporting they were charged around $400 for a visa that runs closer to $100 through the legitimate channel, plus weeks of silence afterward and, in some accounts, a payment page that loops back to itself without ever generating an application number.

Put together, that’s three separate incidents in roughly four months, each following a slightly different version of the same idea: get close enough to a real name that a rushed traveler doesn’t look twice.

Why the Domain-Check Trick Gets Harder Here

The advice this site usually gives — check for a government-only extension like .gov.lk or .go.ke — only half-applies to Saudi Arabia. The eVisa runs on visa.visitsaudi.com, a .com domain tied to Saudi Arabia’s tourism brand rather than a .gov.sa address, similar to the wrinkle covered in Brazil’s eVisa scam post, where the real portal also sits on a commercial-looking domain. Meanwhile the separate MOFA visa hub sits at ksavisa.sa, which does carry the country-code government pattern. Two legitimate government-adjacent addresses, two different extensions, and a set of scam sites cloning the exact naming conventions of both. The habit that actually holds up: type the address yourself, character by character, and don’t trust a search ad or an autofill suggestion to get you there.

How Do You Apply the Right Way?

1. Go directly to visa.visitsaudi.com. Type it. Don’t click a sponsored result for “Saudi visa online” or “Saudi eVisa application.”
2. Confirm your eligibility and select the tourist eVisa category for your trip.
3. Upload your passport bio page and a recent photo, matching every field to your passport exactly.
4. Pay SAR 535 (~$142) through the portal’s payment gateway. That figure already includes the mandatory medical insurance — a separate insurance upsell on a third-party site is a red flag, not a legitimate add-on.
5. Wait for approval, typically within a day or two, and download the confirmation as soon as it arrives rather than relying on an email link you might lose access to.
6. Check your passport’s expiry date before you apply. Saudi Arabia requires at least 6 months of validity beyond your entry date, a requirement confirmed on the US State Department’s Saudi Arabia country page.

Once issued, the eVisa is valid for a year with multiple entries, though every individual stay is still capped at 90 days.

Is a Saudi Visa Free for US Citizens?

No. US citizens do not qualify for visa-free entry to Saudi Arabia and must obtain either the eVisa or a visa on arrival before traveling. This differs from destinations like the UK or Kenya, where Americans pay a smaller entry-authorization fee rather than a full visa. Saudi Arabia’s requirement applies regardless of trip length or purpose, tourism, business, family visits, or Umrah outside the Hajj season, with Hajj travel itself routed through a completely separate system, the Nusuk platform, that this post doesn’t cover.

If You’ve Already Paid a Suspicious Site

Pull up your confirmation and look for an actual Saudi government reference number, not just a company invoice. If your status has been stuck on “In Process” for more than a few days, or the order number doesn’t match anything when checked against Saudi Arabia’s own visa-verification tools, treat it as unresolved and apply again at visa.visitsaudi.com before your travel dates get tight. Dispute the original charge with your card issuer in parallel — these operations rarely have functioning customer service, and a chargeback is the realistic path to getting the money back, not a support ticket that goes unanswered.

Planning a Middle East Trip?

If Saudi Arabia is one stop on a broader itinerary, get the paperwork locked down before the rest of the trip gets built around it — a rejected or fraudulent eVisa is a much bigger problem once flights elsewhere are booked. Egypt runs a nearly identical scam ecosystem around its own eVisa system, covered in the breakdown of Egypt’s fake portals, and if the region as a whole is new territory, the Grand Egyptian Museum guide is worth a look for what else belongs on that leg of the trip. For the broader pattern behind all of these, the site’s rundown of travel scams worth planning around covers what keeps showing up across regions.

The Bottom Line

Saudi Arabia’s eVisa costs SAR 535 (about $142), applies to US citizens and most other nationalities since there’s no visa-free entry, and is only issued at visa.visitsaudi.com. saudisevisa.com carries an active blacklist warning and a trail of complaints about vanished applications. visitsaudiarabiavisa.com and ksavisa.com each have their own record of overcharging and unresponsive support, with ksavisa.com specifically trading on its resemblance to ksavisa.sa, the domain Saudi Arabia’s own Ministry of Foreign Affairs named as official in a January 2026 fraud warning.

None of that makes the real eVisa complicated. It’s one form, one payment, one correct number: $142. Type the address yourself, and don’t let a search result one letter off from the real thing make the decision for you.

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Fee and validity details sourced from visa.visitsaudi.com and the US State Department’s Saudi Arabia country information page. Scam-domain findings from Gridinsoft and Trustpilot. saudievisa.com disclaimer sourced directly from saudievisa.com. MOFA fraud warning reported by Saudi Expatriates. Information current as of August 2026. Verify current fees and named scam domains at visa.visitsaudi.com before applying.