According to EU Helpers, citizens of 13 recent nations (2008 and forward) do not need to spend as much because visa facilitation agreements allow them to pay lesser visa fees of between €80 and €35 or even avoid applying for a visa altogether.

Visa liberalization and facilitation agreements allow citizens of these nations to travel freely to the Schengen area for up to 90 days out of every 180 days in a year, saving them millions of dollars each year.

Georgia continues to have among of the lowest costs because it was one of the first nations in the previous 20 years to be given a visa facilitation agreement in 2008.

More specifically, 64,434 and 59,275 visa applications from citizens of Georgia were submitted in 2009 and 2010, respectively, costing €5.1 and €4.7 million in the two years before the visa facilitation agreement went into effect. As a result, Georgians have been saving up to €4.9 million year on average since the agreement went into effect in 2011.

In other words, since the visa facilitation deal was struck in 2011, Georgians have saved €58.8 million. The amount of money saved by Georgians as a result of the visa waiver agreement increased to €1.5 million between 2011 and 2023, but costs associated with failed applications in 2010 and 2011 totaled €19,806.

Based on statistics showing that Georgian nationals applied for 61,855 visas on average between 2009 and 2010, these citizens have saved a total of €59.3 million in visa costs, with the monthly amount presumed to be paid being close to €5 million.

The average number of visa applications that are rejected is 792,000, meaning that while Georgians spent €1.5 million on rejected applications in 2009 and 2010, this sum would eventually amount to €9.5 million and would be utterly wasted.

As a result of signing the visa facilitation agreement with the EU, Georgia has saved up to €69 million, which not only encourages more freedom of movement but also benefits the economy of the country.

As evidenced by data for other nations, countries like Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina achieved visa liberalization in 2008. However, official data for visa applications submitted by citizens of these countries are not yet available.

As a result, nations that later reached visa liberalization agreements, including Belarus, continue to pay high Schengen visa fees.

Apart from the Western Balkan nations (2008) and Georgia (2011), other nations that have reached agreements for fewer visa requirements include Ukraine and Moldova, both of which did so in 2013, followed by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Cape Verde, which did so in the following year (2014). Armenian and Azerbaijani nationals must still apply for a Schengen visa before entering the EU, however the charge has been decreased from €80 to €35.

However, Belarus's visa-easing agreement with the EU, which was the most recent of all to be struck, was stopped as a result of the sanctions that the European nations applied as a result of Russia's conflict in Ukraine.

Therefore, because of its connections to Moscow, Belarus was also a target of these sanctions. Currently, all Belarusians must get a Schengen visa in order to enter the zone without borders. Additionally, Belarus is the only nation whose visa facilitation deal has been overturned, meaning it is no longer in effect.