eVisa or Embassy Visa? Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Morocco

TL;DR

Your passport decides first, then what you hold. For Turkey, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, Filipino and Afghan passports get the e-Visa with a valid UK residence permit, while Nigerian, Ghanaian, Kenyan and Zimbabwean passports must use the consulate. For Saudi Arabia, 68 passports qualify directly and others need UK permanent residence or a US, UK or Schengen visit visa. For Morocco, Indian passports qualify directly and others need a UK residence permit valid 180 more days.

The rule: passport first, then what you hold

An eVisa is an ordinary visa issued online, and each government decides who may use the online route. None of them asks where you live as the first question; they ask what passport you carry. Only after that does your UK status come in, and it comes in differently for each country: Turkey wants a valid visa or residence permit from the UK, a Schengen country, the US or Ireland; Saudi Arabia wants permanent residence in the UK, US or EU, or a visit visa for one of those; Morocco wants a residence permit with at least 180 days left, or a qualifying multiple-entry sticker visa with 90 days left. If you pass neither test, the route is the consulate, and our service does not cover it.

Turkey

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs' visa information page sorts passports into four groups. Exempt: British citizens, Irish, American, Canadian, Australian, Saudi, Emirati, Malaysian, Brazilian, Colombian, Ukrainian, Moroccan, Tunisian, Iranian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Russian, Thai and, since 2 January 2026, Chinese, each with its own day count. E-Visa with a condition: Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, Filipino, Afghan, Senegalese, Yemeni and Palestinian passports, Iraqis aged 15 to 50 and Egyptians aged 15 to 45, who need a valid UK, Schengen, US or Irish visa or residence permit, and in Egypt's case one of five named airlines. E-Visa with no condition: South African, Vietnamese, Mexican, Jamaican, Mauritian and British National (Overseas). Consulate: Nigerian, Ghanaian, Kenyan, Zimbabwean and a dozen other African and Asian passports listed as required to have a visa with no online route. Our Turkey guide and passport table give the detail.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia runs two doors into the same tourist eVisa. visa.visitsaudi.com lists 68 eligible countries, among them the UK, Ireland, the EU states, the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and Turkey; a passport on that list applies there. The KSA Visa platform opens the eVisa, and a visa on arrival, to holders of visit visas for Schengen, the USA or the UK, to permanent residents of the USA, the EU or the UK, and to GCC residents, whatever their nationality. The word to watch is permanent: settled status or indefinite leave to remain, not a Skilled Worker, Student or family visa. Everyone else is sent to a Saudi visa service centre or the embassy. Umrah is permitted on the tourist eVisa; Hajj is not. Our Saudi guide and Umrah guide cover the rest.

Morocco

Morocco's portal, www.acces-maroc.ma, runs a checker that tells you in a minute whether you are exempt, must use a consulate, need a travel authorisation or can have the eVisa. British citizens are exempt for 90 days, as gov.uk confirms. The eVisa itself has three doors, set out in the portal's conditions of use: Category A for Indian, Jordanian, Thai, Vietnamese, Israeli, Azerbaijani, Beninese, Bruneian, Cambodian, Guatemalan and Lao passports; Category B for anyone whose passport needs a visa and who lives in the UK, the EU, the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, the UAE or Switzerland with a residence card or permit valid at least 180 days; and Category C for holders of a multiple-entry sticker visa from a Schengen country, the US, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Japan, Norway or New Zealand with at least 90 days left. Receipts, work permits and other documents are not accepted as the residence proof, and only ordinary passports qualify. Our Morocco guide has the full list of documents.

The three destinations by passport

Where the Morocco column says to use the checker, it is because the consulate's exemption list was unreachable when we verified these pages on 23 October 2026 and we do not publish what we could not read.

What "consulate" means in practice

For Turkey it means the Pre-Application System for Turkish Sticker Visa at visa.gov.tr, then an appointment at the Turkish Consulate General in London with the signed form, a passport valid six months with two blank pages, a photo, travel insurance, a round-trip booking, proof of accommodation and occupation, and bank statements; the consulate takes cash only and the Ministry suggests applying a month ahead. For Saudi Arabia it means a visa service centre where one exists, or an application started on the KSA Visa platform and finished at the Saudi embassy. For Morocco it means the Moroccan Consulate General in London. In each case the fee, the documents and the timing belong to the consulate, and the Bundler is the one thing of ours that still helps: it puts the file in order.

What we sell, and what we refuse

Our £29 service covers the eVisa routes only. We prepare the application in your own portal account, ready for you to check and submit, within 24 hours of your complete details, or your service fee back. You check every answer, it is submitted on your say-so, and you pay the official fee on the portal; we never take or enter card details. Additional applicants are £29 each, up to five on one order, and you can always apply yourself on the official portal for the official fee alone. The plan step asks your destination, your passport and your UK status before anything is paid, and if the answer is consulate it says so and sells nothing. If we find it after payment and before work starts, we refund in full. The issuing government alone decides the outcome. More on the eVisa hub. Sold by WayaNerd Ltd, company number 16269713.