Saudi: Multiple entry e-visa with 2-year validity and $12.68 fee

Saudi: Multiple entry e-visa with 2-year validity and $12.68 fee

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia and Britain announced on Wednesday the new procedures for the electronic visa waiver regime that allows Saudi citizens traveling to Britain to stay a much longer period of time. The new regime of Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA), that replaced an Electronic Visa Waiver (ETV), is characterized by a validity period of up to two years and multiple entry during the validity period. The visa fee will be a symbolic amount of 10 Pound Sterling, and the new scheme will take into effect on February 22, 2024. The announcement was made during the meeting of Saudi Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Eng. Walid Al-Kheraiji and Lord Tariq Ahmed, minister of state for MENA, South Asia and the UN at the British Ministry of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development, at the ministry’s headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday. Al-Kheraiji and Tariq Ahmed stated that this new visa regime reaffirms the excellent Saudi-British relations and the continuous coordination between the foreign ministries of the two countries to achieve the aspirations of the leadership and peoples of the two friendly countries. They also discussed ways to further strengthen and develop bilateral relations in various fields. The latest regional and international developments of