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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

#71

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.

Not currently but that in my plan. Stay tuned!

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

#72
post #13

Where do I specify my second citizenship?

Why does it matter? You can only enter with one passport anyway so just try the two? There's no "combine passports to level up" in the visa world.

Does having more passports work "additively" or "subtractively"?

For example I can imagine that a person with only a UK passport can enter the US more freely than a person with both a UK and Iraqi passport.

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

#74
How do you handle some of the more obscure cases? For example, citizens of some countries, including the US, can do a short, visa-free stay in China if they’re transiting through the major airports (https://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/visa/transit.htm).

I saw Beijing this way coming back to SF from Taiwan. It was a pain to find all the details about how to apply, and a site like this could help people find out about such opportunities. e.g., you could match trip itinieraries to interesting stopovers.

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

#75
Nice looking site. As others have pointed out, it's important to be 100% credible so that people can trust that the results are correct and up-to-date. The overall look of the site is consistent with this, but having "by 1HaKr" in the lower right would be a red flag for some folks who think of "hackers" as exclusively black hat.

It would help the site's credibility if you linked to authoritative source documents showing that you do/don't need a visa for a particular country, so that folks can trust that your third-party site is correct.

It would also be handy if you could include requirements related to international driver's license, IMO.

Lastly, the button "LETS GO!" needs an apostrophe.

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

#76
You won't know for sure, however, until you check with an official Government source. I don't know what the utility of a 3rd party version of this is. Usually people only go to a limited set of countries on every trip, so it's not a big burden to go.

And I found an error on the first country I checked USA -> Belarus.

You don't need a Visa only if you're entering through the Airport and staying less than 5 days. If you're crossing the border from Lithuania by car, you do need one.

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

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post #72
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does it matter? You can only enter with one passport anyway so just try the two? There's no "combine passports to level up" in the visa world.

Does having more passports work "additively" or "subtractively"? For example I can imagine that a person with only a UK passport can enter the US more freely than a person with both a UK and Iraqi passport.

Countries usually don't know which passports you have (If you enter for the first time and they don't have some kind of data-sharing agreement) so you'd just enter with the one that's easier not by showing all of yours.

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

#80
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 ;)

Very useful feedback. Will add it.
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