Originally Posted by atflyer

wadrian6 I also got the transit visa offered when booking via an OTA - but then only in the very last step on the SV website, the payment, things do not go through. As a warning to others: as indicated in some posts before, I tried the transit visa via ksa.sa. I paid - and then 2 weeks nothing. I mailed MOFU and the KSA embassy in my home country - and got no clear answers. The embassy said things like
- no need for a transfer visa < 11 hours (yes thank you, I know, but I want to leave the airport)
- if you need a transfer visa do this via the SV website (yes thank you, that did not work; ksa.sa offers the option too, and should not offer this option you are not allowed to apply this way)
- you need to bring your passport (yes thank you, the ksa.sa website says nowhere I have to do this; and there were 2 weeks between applying for the visa on ksa.sa and leaving the Netherlands - someone should have mailed me I should show up physically)

The most likely outcome is that I am 25 Euro down the drain which is not the end of the world, but the procedure via ksa.sa seems not fool proof nor clearly implemented. I will drop a mail again with MOFA with all I experienced, but not a lot of hope this will change things.