Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Where to Download Easy Enjaz Application for Ethiopian?
Here is a download link for easy enjaz ethiopian app from media fire, after you finish the download it will ask you for a password
What is Easy Enjaz
Fancy a trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? Well it starts with obtaining the elusive visa.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ranks as one of the most difficult countries in the world to travel to
because of the immense difficulty in obtaining a visa. Some countries
require American passport holders to obtain a visa before traveling, one
of which is Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia does not make it easy for
casual tourism to the Kingdom. Most travelers come for Hajj, Umrah or work. Outside of those options obtaining a visa can be a very difficult task.
Transit visas are available for those staying longer than 12 hours, but I wanted to spend more than that in the Kingdom and it is common for those visa requests to be rejected. Knowing full well it's not easy to gain entry to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia I was prepared for what could be an difficult visa application process.
Luckily, we have a good friend who lives and works in Saudi Arabia and was willing to assist Carrie and me in obtaining a visa to visit him. Being good friends and avid travelers we could certainly not turn down our friend’s invitation and the exclusiveness of traveling to Saudi Arabia. The first step was to obtain approval from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I’m not entirely certain what our friend had to do at his end, but the process took several months. All we did at this stage was provide scanned copies of our passports and proposed travel dates.
Transit visas are available for those staying longer than 12 hours, but I wanted to spend more than that in the Kingdom and it is common for those visa requests to be rejected. Knowing full well it's not easy to gain entry to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia I was prepared for what could be an difficult visa application process.
Luckily, we have a good friend who lives and works in Saudi Arabia and was willing to assist Carrie and me in obtaining a visa to visit him. Being good friends and avid travelers we could certainly not turn down our friend’s invitation and the exclusiveness of traveling to Saudi Arabia. The first step was to obtain approval from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I’m not entirely certain what our friend had to do at his end, but the process took several months. All we did at this stage was provide scanned copies of our passports and proposed travel dates.
Receiving
approval from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was just the first step
of a multi-step application process. The next step was to apply for the
visa using Enjaz,
the Saudi online visa application system. While I am thankful for its
existence, it was not the most intuitive system nor was it easy to pay
the visa fee through. The first challenge was to upload a photo that
was between 3 and 18 KB with a maximum pixel resolution of 200 x 200.
In order to upload a photo that fit those parameters Carrie had to scan
a photo of each of us and then I adjusted the size and quality before
uploading them into Enjaz. Next we answered various questions, most of
which were fairly routine. There was also some confusion as to whether I
should add Carrie as my companion traveler or if we simply apply
separately, as well as what visa to apply for out of the several that
were relevant to our visit. We consulted our friend for advice on how
to proceed with these issues.
The true joy of the experience of using Enjaz came when it was time to pay the application fee of $10.50 each, which was the step after completing the online application. After tediously entering in all the required information and uploading the photo the payment transaction subsequently failed which caused everything I had entered to be lost. Carrie was lucky enough that her credit card was accepted on the first attempt. I on the other hand completed the application and attempted to pay the fee several more times using several different cards before resorting to calling to authorize the transaction. In the meantime I had received several texts messages and emails from the banks about fraudulent charges. After I authorized the approval with my bank I was told to wait five minutes before submitting the application and payment again. Unfortunately, the payment failed yet again so I reverted back to the original credit card I had used in hopes it would work. Luckily, this time it was successful. To be fair I had responded affirmatively to their second text message that I was indeed trying to pay the Government of Saudi Arabia $10.50. On the next page I had to note my application number, as we don’t have a printer. At no point during the application process did they ask for my email address so there was no way I would know what the application number was once I closed out of the browser.
The next step was to complete a hard-copy application form, which was somewhat similar to the online application we had just submitted. According to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia the online application should be printed and brought to the Embassy, along with the other hard-copy application, the approval document from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, proof of payment, and one passport photo (in addition to the one uploaded). We were well aware that there was a $110 visa fee, but it was not obvious how to make that payment. Everything we read stated the payment should be made through Enjaz and not at the Embassy. Figuring that it's possible the visa that we were applying for was only $10.50 and with nothing else telling us to make an additional payment we proceeded to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC.
The consular section of the Embassy is open from 9:30 to 11:30 am for application drop-offs. We arrived at the Embassy around 9:30 and proceeded through security where we surrendered our phones and headed to the consular section. There were two other people who were waiting for something else, so we were called forward to the window to present our applications. After our applications were reviewed we were informed that we still had to pay the $110 visa fee, but were not told how to locate that option on Enjaz. Not wanting to waste the time we had already invested in taking off of work we grabbed an Uber and headed for the closest FedEx Kinkos. During the ride Carrie scoured the Enjaz website on her phone for an option to login and pay the fee. Once there, I logged into a computer, accessed my application, and paid my visa fee (the credit card was accepted on my first attempt. The same cannot be said for Carrie).
We grabbed an Uber and raced back to the Embassy to submit our applications. The applications were accepted and we were given orange tickets and told to return the next day. After months of waiting for approval the actual visa could be available in as few as 24 hours!
The true joy of the experience of using Enjaz came when it was time to pay the application fee of $10.50 each, which was the step after completing the online application. After tediously entering in all the required information and uploading the photo the payment transaction subsequently failed which caused everything I had entered to be lost. Carrie was lucky enough that her credit card was accepted on the first attempt. I on the other hand completed the application and attempted to pay the fee several more times using several different cards before resorting to calling to authorize the transaction. In the meantime I had received several texts messages and emails from the banks about fraudulent charges. After I authorized the approval with my bank I was told to wait five minutes before submitting the application and payment again. Unfortunately, the payment failed yet again so I reverted back to the original credit card I had used in hopes it would work. Luckily, this time it was successful. To be fair I had responded affirmatively to their second text message that I was indeed trying to pay the Government of Saudi Arabia $10.50. On the next page I had to note my application number, as we don’t have a printer. At no point during the application process did they ask for my email address so there was no way I would know what the application number was once I closed out of the browser.
The next step was to complete a hard-copy application form, which was somewhat similar to the online application we had just submitted. According to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia the online application should be printed and brought to the Embassy, along with the other hard-copy application, the approval document from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, proof of payment, and one passport photo (in addition to the one uploaded). We were well aware that there was a $110 visa fee, but it was not obvious how to make that payment. Everything we read stated the payment should be made through Enjaz and not at the Embassy. Figuring that it's possible the visa that we were applying for was only $10.50 and with nothing else telling us to make an additional payment we proceeded to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC.
The consular section of the Embassy is open from 9:30 to 11:30 am for application drop-offs. We arrived at the Embassy around 9:30 and proceeded through security where we surrendered our phones and headed to the consular section. There were two other people who were waiting for something else, so we were called forward to the window to present our applications. After our applications were reviewed we were informed that we still had to pay the $110 visa fee, but were not told how to locate that option on Enjaz. Not wanting to waste the time we had already invested in taking off of work we grabbed an Uber and headed for the closest FedEx Kinkos. During the ride Carrie scoured the Enjaz website on her phone for an option to login and pay the fee. Once there, I logged into a computer, accessed my application, and paid my visa fee (the credit card was accepted on my first attempt. The same cannot be said for Carrie).
We grabbed an Uber and raced back to the Embassy to submit our applications. The applications were accepted and we were given orange tickets and told to return the next day. After months of waiting for approval the actual visa could be available in as few as 24 hours!
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