Visa requirements for Saudi citizens were lifted by New Zealand (July 1999),[2] Kyrgyzstan (July 2012), Honduras (September 2016),[3] Georgia (November 2016),[4] Belarus (February 2017),[5] Barbados (May 2019),[6] South Africa (August 2019),[7] Kazakhstan (September 2019),[8] Ukraine (August 2020),[9] Uzbekistan (August 2022),[10] Zambia (December 2022),[11] South Korea (April 2023),[12] Singapore (June 2023),[13][14] Iran (December 2023),[15] Turkey (January 2024),[16] the United Kingdom (February 2024),[17] Pakistan (September 2024),[18] and Sri Lanka (October 2024).
[28] Russia announced that it is working to establish visa-free travel agreement with Saudi Arabia.
[30] European Union is currently working on facilitating visa-free entry into Schengen Area for Saudi citizens.
[31][32] Paraguay is working on opening an embassy in Riyadh and abolish visa requirements for Saudi citizens.
2 Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Russia and the partially recognised republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia each span the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia.