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

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

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Post by shaklee3 »

reikonomusha wrote: post #186

I find many of the critical comments to be shortsighted, especially those talking about trust/credibility. Do people really believe folks will check this site then run over to book an international ticket straight after? This is an awesome site to get a general idea where I (or my friends & family) can and can’t travel with and without extra work. It has a nice interface, a good collection of information, and is easi…

If it's trying to be an "official" site, then yes. I think it looks great, and those small things are easy to fix to not deter people.

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

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Post by _xzxj »

Nice site. This isn't the first visa site like it i've seen, but they all focus on travel visas it seems. I suppose that's the low-hanging fruit.

What would be interesting to see are work visas, entrepreneur/freelance visas, working holiday visas, and so on. Obviously a much more complicated ask but that is what I have not yet seen from a site.

Main reason being this: If you want to travel somewhere you can pretty much go on government websites (either yours or theirs) and see what the visa requirements are. If you're looking to relocate to another country but perhaps don't have a good idea where you want to (or can) relocate to or how, it can be a steep hill to climb. Having something with a bit of a hint as to where to start looking would be nice for people I think.

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

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Post by nathan_f77 »

1hakr wrote: post #53
edtau wrote: post #50

Really nice. If an eVisa is available for my selection, consider offering me a link so I can sign up direct... and, as an alternative, possibly wrapper a service around this to submit the application process on my behalf (making clear this is a paid/premium service).

Interesting, i havent thought about it yet. But i guess then i have to build a company around this as it wont be a microstartup anymore!

> But i guess then i have to build a company around this

That was my problem too, and it's why I eventually dropped the idea. Check out my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643591

I'm not sure if crowdsourced data would work, and I think this probably needs a team of researchers and immigration experts to give people enough confidence (especially if they're going to be paying for something.) Or at least a license to use the Timatic data. I went down this road a while ago and realized that I would probably become either a Timatic competitor, or a visa agency like https://www.visahq.com

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

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Post by scrollaway »

_xzxj wrote: post #202

Nice site. This isn't the first visa site like it i've seen, but they all focus on travel visas it seems. I suppose that's the low-hanging fruit. What would be interesting to see are work visas, entrepreneur/freelance visas, working holiday visas, and so on. Obviously a much more complicated ask but that is what I have not yet seen from a site. Main reason being this: If you want to travel somewhere you can pretty mu…

Also on HN a while back: https://multinational.io/

I like it a lot because it lets you compare passports, which helps a bunch when planning travels/moves with someone else.

Edit: Ah yes, https://passportindex.org also lets you do that, I remember using it, it's probably the most featureful of the lot.

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

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Post by mlacks »

Over this project - while interesting and excellently executed - I use passportindex.org [0].

I can't validate its sources directly, but its backed by Arton Capital, which after a few minutes of research seems to have a pretty decent reputation in this field.

Its also been validated by some respectable sources: WSJ, CNN, MSN, WaPo, HuffPo, and more [1].

[0] https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

[1] https://www.passportindex.org/about.php

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

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Post by cambalache »

bergerjac wrote: post #52
mikface wrote: post #26

Good job! Nice UI. But little but very important note for people from those countries: Add region called "Central Europe". Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians... they hate being marked as eastern europeans ;)

As an American who visited all those countries and conversed with multiple citizens from each of those countries, they do remind you of the "Central Europe" thing.. However, they don't understand that for Americans, "Eastern Europe" isn't geographic; it's geopolitical... essentially, Europe east of the former Berlin Wall There's South America the continent, but for some Spanish people (and possibly other peoples), "S…

Which Spanish people? No one in Latin America(or for that matter in Spain) use your weird definition for South America.For classifying America or the Americas there are 2 different models: the 2 continent model (that Anglo people use among others) and the 1 continent model that we use in Latin America. In neither of those 2 models Mexico is considered a part of South America.

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

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Post by LouisSayers »

Nice one! It'd be really cool to be able to sort by Visa length as well. That'd be a handy feature for digital nomads.

You could solve any issues with info being out of date by sourcing from the community, allowing people to flag or comment on specific pages.

Also, it's useful in the nomad community to know how easy it is to do visa runs etc as well, so that's perhaps some insider info - maybe you could put this behind a paywall.

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

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Post by legostormtroopr »

I'm helping with a conference and this would be massively useful... except I need to define there relationship by the destination country, not the origin.

Can this show me all of the conditions for people wanting to visit a country?

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