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Originally Posted by monster
Hi- We are British so we don't know if the rules for US are different, but we called the Saudi Embassy recently to ask this same question. We were told that obtaining a Saudi transit visa would be no problem at all if we had our next country visa in our passport. The embassy told us we could obtain our transit visa in Jordan and we would be given up to 7 days to get to the Jeddah ferry. They seemed surprised that we thought there may be a problem!?
Who knows- things change so quickly and it all depends on how your home country are getting on politically with where you want to go!!
Good luck and happy travels,
Dave 
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Congratulations in advance on receiving such a positive response. But beware that this could be a case of the left hand not knowing about the right. Saudis are notoriously stingy with their transit visas and far more are denied than accepted and not just for Americans. Hopefully things have changed since I applied, but back then, not only were the transit visas limited to three-days, those delivering the bad news of denial were about the rudest Embassy personnel I ever encountered. I tried from Istanbul, Syria, Egypt and Jordan.
Since Iran had also denied me a visa, in order to reach Pakistan, I wound up having to airfreight from Amman to Karachi. Be advised that Pakistan was requiring visa applications submitted while still in home countries. I got one in Eastern Europe but only after a personal meeting with the ambassador. (A great experience in itself)
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