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

Post by tremendo » Sun, Dec 09, 2018, 6:54 PM UTC

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…

Post by 1hakr » Sun, Dec 09, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

jlangenauer wrote: post #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)

Post by s0rce » Sun, Dec 09, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC

1hakr wrote: post #143

fareesh wrote: post #140

I personally would never use a website like this because I am not going to trust my precious travel plans and legal standing in another country to a non-authoritative website. For my personal comfort, the problem to be solved is officially recognized information presented in a convenient way. In fact, I have noticed that websites like this tend to add to my confusion when they contradict the official forms.

Actually the information is from the official website, infact in the details page you can find link to the offical website. What i'm trying to do here is simplify the visa requirements for everyone.

Post by s0rce » Sun, Dec 09, 2018, 6:58 PM UTC

_0nac wrote: post #64

Interesting, but how do you keep this up to date? These requirement change constantly and the only reliable source I'm aware of, Timatic (which is what airlines use), is copyrighted and quite tightly locked down. Wikipedia does crowdsource this info fairly effectively though, sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Indian_c...

Post by s0rce » Sun, Dec 09, 2018, 6:59 PM UTC

1hakr wrote: post #104

reasonablemann wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why anybody would use this site vs the wikipedia site. Can somebody explain the utility here?

Wikipedia doesnt have filters and sorting based on visa category or region / sub regions or even the maps where you can visaualize all the countries with different visa requirements. Also it deosnt have the links to official websites, visa application link , fee links and document checklist. Visalist tries has all this.