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Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#81
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A quick rule of thumb for European Union member states: no visas are needed for any EU citizen to go any other EU country (as a tourist). It shows that I need a visa to go from Romania to the UK or Sweden (that is false, Romania, the UK and Sweden are all EU members).

I am not a travel agent, but I believe even non-EU citizens don't need a visa to travel within the EU - you may only need a visa to enter a EU country.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#84

You might want some country aliases; since the first items in the drop-down had full country names in them, I expected to have to type "united states", not "US". Works great, otherwise. Seems handy as a standalone service; it'd help even more if integrated into a travel site like Hipmunk.

It's also grammatically incorrect. I am citizen of the United States of America, but an American citizen. The correct demonym in English for a citizen of the United States is American.

Interesting. I'm a citizen of The Netherlands, so assuming a faulty system I searched at 'T' and 'N', but I found it at the correct place, 'Dutch'.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#85

Neat! I wonder if you could crowd-source some of the missing data. I tested it with "I'm a US Citizen travelling to Macau." but didn't get any result. The US state department web site http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_955.html#en... says no visa is required.

If you're interested I can confirm that a passport is all you need to get into Macao as a U.S. citizen.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#86
Here's a spreadsheet (on google docs) that pretty much fulfills the same need: http://goo.gl/RXSQk

You just enter any airport code in the country where you are from, and any airport code in your destination country, then you get the visa information.

To OP: seems like there's quite a bit of information missing, you could try scraping it from the link on that spreadsheet

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#87

Serves the same purpose as http://www.visahq.com/ , but it would nice to see a better presentation.

Interesting, except it seems hard to use. For example, on the front page, I can't select citizenship country. Also, playing with it, I selected: Chile visa, for a Mexican national, living in China (http://chile.visahq.cn/requirements/Mexico/resident-China/), and the whole site switched to Chinese. If I was a Mexican national, why would I want the site in Chinese, even if I was living there?

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#88
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post #47

I don't understand the presentation. Allow the user to choose nationality from a drop down box, then show a world map colored various ways: - green no visa - blue for easy to obtain visas - red for difficult to obtain visas On a side note, it should probably be "United States citizen" and not "US". Also, US -> China is a very common route that requires a visiting / mailing your passport to a Chinese embassy to obtain…

Your suggestion sounds exactly like Visamapper (www.visamapper.com) But DoIneedAVisaFor is a more direct way to answer the question if you already know your Destination.

Usually it's pretty easy to get a Visa on arrival at most African countries, yet when I tried to add that, I was asked to log in through either Google or Facebook (I like neither). When I saw that it required my permission to use some data on my Google account even when I'm not using the site, I declined and then got a typical Rails error page.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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post #88
post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your suggestion sounds exactly like Visamapper (www.visamapper.com) But DoIneedAVisaFor is a more direct way to answer the question if you already know your Destination.

Usually it's pretty easy to get a Visa on arrival at most African countries, yet when I tried to add that, I was asked to log in through either Google or Facebook (I like neither). When I saw that it required my permission to use some data on my Google account even when I'm not using the site, I declined and then got a typical Rails error page.

The permission to use some data is the minimum permission requested (Email address). The intent here is to use OAuth to allow easy logins, not harvest data. BTW, The entire site is open-source at http://www.github.com/udit99/visamapper, so not only can you a) Verify that there is no foul play, but b) send pull requests with alternative login methods.
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