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Visa requirements for Saudi citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Saudi Arabia. As of January 2025, Saudi citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 87 countries and territories, ranking the Saudi passport 59th in the world, tied with Botswana passport according to the ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia. There are currently 122 embassies in Riyadh. Several countries have diplomatic missions accredited from other capitals. In addition, many countries maintain consulates in other Saudi Arabian cities such as Jeddah and Dhahran (not including honorary consulates).
The West German embassy in Stockholm was occupied by the Red Army Faction in 1975. In 1989 its embassies in Budapest and Prague sheltered fleeing East Germans while waiting for permission to travel onwards to West Germany; permission was subsequently given by the Czechoslovakian and Hungarian governments, accelerating the collapse of socialist ...
After nearly a year of diplomatic crisis and vacancy of the ambassador position, Saudi Arabia sent its ambassador back to Berlin, but he was replaced by Faisal bin Farhan on 27 March 2019. [3] Saudi dissidents living in Germany were not pleased with the appointment of Faisal. The dissident Khalid bin Farhan al-Saud, a distant relative of the ...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formally established by King Abdulaziz in 1932. Initially the ministry was made up of five departments, namely the private office and the departments of oriental affairs, administrative affairs, political affairs and consular affairs. [2] The ministry began establishing diplomatic missions abroad.
The relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Saudi Arabia were established in 1954. [2] German politician Karl Carstens visiting King Fahd in Saudi Arabia (1982) From May 29 to 31, 1976, the then German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt traveled to Saudi Arabia for talks with the then Crown Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz.
"The effort is meant to make visiting Saudi Arabia about as easy as traveling to neighboring Arab tourist hot spots such as Dubai." [37] [38] On September 27, 2019, Saudi Arabia introduced an e-visa program, allowing people from 49 countries to visit, by applying for a visa ahead of their trip or on arrival.
German citizens were made eligible for eVisas by Russia (January 2021, suspended during COVID-19 pandemic, previously only Kaliningrad and Far East), [299] Guinea and Malawi (October 2019), Saudi Arabia (September 2019), Suriname and Pakistan (April 2019), Tanzania and Papua New Guinea (November 2018), [300] Angola (March 2018), Djibouti ...