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Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#21
A big thumbs up. Very useful. As an Indian citizen, I have traveled close to 50 countries (not including business trips) and Indian citizens, apart from a handful of countries, need visa for most of the world. This site comes in handy.

If possible, consider adding which countries have exemptions for holders of Permanent Residency (Greencard), or an Australian PR and such.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#22
Is there a way for US/Canadian long term visa holders to check their visa requirements? E.g. Indian citizens are normally required to get visa for Mexico/Philippines. But with a H1B visa from USA they can travel visa free / visa on arrival.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#23
Funnily enough, about 5 years ago, I did pretty much the same thing. It turned out to be a right pain to actually find, and keep all the data up to date.

(Comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5434186 - the actual site has been taken down)

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#25
post #21

A big thumbs up. Very useful. As an Indian citizen, I have traveled close to 50 countries (not including business trips) and Indian citizens, apart from a handful of countries, need visa for most of the world. This site comes in handy. If possible, consider adding which countries have exemptions for holders of Permanent Residency (Greencard), or an Australian PR and such.

So excruciatingly painful to travel on the Indian passport. I was rejected from visiting my fiancee in France even though I had a UK, Swiss (was not schengen in 2007) and H1b visa on my passport.

Also visa requirements are by the passport you are holding not usually the PR so requirements don't change that much.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#27

nice, however this information is not too hard to get myself. Add Dual nationality/ multi-nationality, and that would actually save me time. (single nationals can just search for any website, whereas dual nationals would want to search for 2 as they have more options, and if they only have to use your website that saves their time!) :)

Multi-nationality is becoming more and more common especially with permanent residency visas

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#28
Well done! I like it as a potential way to brainstorm travel.

However I would not use it as a definitive resource simply because there is no authoritative central source for the data, and the official sources are sometimes very messy (I assume you're scraping consular websites to keep current).

Feature suggestion: show the name of the country when hovering on the map.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#29
While this is super cool, as an Argentinian I show up as visa-free for a bunch of Schengen countries, which while strictly not false it's not super useful: We get 3 out of every 6 months stay, and the list would prob be a lot more useful to people who don't know this if these things were somehow displayed; it's after all not a minor caveat when picking travel destinations

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#30
Great website! I travel a ton (50+ countries in the last few years) and usually use Wikipedia to check visa requirements. I'll be switching to this.

Where did you import all this data from in a structured manner? How do you plan on keeping it up to date?

Are you associated with a commercial enterprise in the space (e.g. travel startup)?

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