Checked for my home country (Switzerland), and it doesn't seem to be correct - travel to Canada requires an eTA, but the site lists Canada as being visa free. Could get you in for an unpleasant surprise when your airline won't let you board (they check for eTA at check-in).
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Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
#222nice, but it would be so useful to display for how many days u can stay visa free in a visa-free country.
Thanks, I will be adding that soon
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Over here: https://visalist.io/new-zealand/visa-requirements/netherland... it says "source: wikipedia", which is hardly "official", and may not be comprehensive. The Wikipedia page is subtly wrong you get a "visa on arrival", not "visa not required". There are some important details left out too; for example one of the conditions for getting the visa is that you have booked flights out of New Zealand. I've heard stor…
So the official website, visa application link, fees and document checklist are not available on Wikipedia. VisaList tries to aggregate all this info and show it in a simple and useful manner.
None of this is visible on VisaList, either?
The New Zealand visa website is pretty good, as is the one from the Netherlands: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/ and https://www.netherlandsandyou.nl/travel-and-residence
It includes all these things. Perhaps other countries are less helpful, but certainly in these cases VisaLink isn't really adding anything in its current state.
Also, "You do not need a chip & PIN card to use an ATM — your standard magnetic card will work fine" is wrong for the Netherlands, as magnetic cards were phased out years ago. They're not accepted anywhere AFAIK.
Getting good data on "the entire world" as you're trying to do here is hard, and requires real experts. Just copying/scraping Wikipedia is frankly not a good place to start, actually investing money and paying domain experts is.
I know it sucks to have people be critical about something you spent a lot of time building, and maybe one day your website will have better data, and I wish you the best of luck with, but right now I don't see how it's adding value.
Sorry :-(
Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
#224The most helpful addition to this site would be a list of biometrics that the country collects. Eg: fingerprints, photo on arrival, etc... That way we can avoid the fascist, fingerprint hoarding countries!
Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
#225Correction : For Canada from most Europe Schengen countries you need an Eta visa, it’s not visa free.
Same for US green card holders.
Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
#226Adding a reference source in requirements details might be helpful and assuring.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Timatic is accessible through the web, for example https://www.skyteam.com/en/flights-and-destinations/visa-and... https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/passport-visa-health-travel... https://www.koreanair.com/global/en/traveling/airport-check-...
Accessible, yes, but you can't copy that information into your own website without a license.
Yes and also the most actionable info like document checklist is not available
Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm not seeing the links to the official websites, on the few examples I tried its pointing me back to wikipedia, ex: https://visalist.io/algeria/visa-requirements/united-states-...
Yes some of the information is from Wikipedia but mostly it's from official website of the countries
Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
#229Correction : For Canada from most Europe Schengen countries you need an Eta visa, it’s not visa free. Same for US green card holders.
Sorry, but this is incorrect. The European Travel Information and Authorisation System has not even been developed yet, much less deployed. It will only come online in 2021. Until then, Schengen is visa-free for Canadians and Americans.
>On July 5th, the European Parliament has given its final agreement to implement the European Travel Information and Authorisation System, ETIAS. European authorities have decided to establish the electronic visa waiver system in the year 2021 to improve security across the Schengen Area.
https://www.etiasvisa.com/etias-news/how-will-the-etias-syst...
Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
#230Nice map work.