Wife is from Philippines living in Denmark and we had to go to Jordan, Aqaba. Your page will say I need Visa which is true but it’s given on arrival because of the entry point. Wife is another matter, she has to get it in the Jordanian embassy in Berlin as Denmark only has a consulate. The Jordanian webpage information has not been updated for ages and is wrong. The embassy is somewhat helpful but it took me several calls to figure out how to do the return postage for the passport as danish mail had discontinued this product a year earlier. Also first thing wife will usually do is google visa and end up on a advertisement with a high premium on the visa and a crazy fee when you realize the mistake and try and cancel. Would be great with a place to get a quick overview of the normal price and a place to comment and discuss the challenges you sometimes run into.
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#12Alternative: https://visalist.io/
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#13Cool website, however, I really dislike the name. Doesn't make much sense to me.
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#14Where did you get these phone numbers (for the United States)?
> Police - 999
> Ambulance - 997
> Fire - 998
> Traffic police - 993 Mobile phones - 112 or 911
> Non-emergency ambulance - 1777
> Police hotline - 1800 255 0000
> Traffic police - 6547 0000
None of them seem to be correct, except for 911. In the United States, 911 is the same for police, ambulance, fire, and "traffic police". Also, non-emergency ambulance/police are all varied depending on your current location and are usually administered by the county/city/district that you're in. There is no global number (that I'm aware of) that is the nearest non-emergency police/ambulance line.
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#15Your data is wrong. I put in from "United States" to "Israel", and it said a Visa is required, which is not true unless the visit is longer than 3 months.
Also, the very first time I used it, I typed in "USA" to "Germany", and it treated the unknown string "USA" as a country, and told me a visa was required, which is also not true.
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#16It says "Amsterdam is the mail city of Netherlands" and "Currency: Dutch guilder". I wouldn't trust a website with such low quality text and information, especially not for advice on legal/travel documents.
wow thanks I don't know how I missed that, will fix it asap!!!
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#17Small usability tip: When you specify your source/destination country and submit the form, the countries you entered should ideally still be in the form on the results page.
As it is, I'm from United Kingdom, checking out a country to go to, I see and read the visa information. If I want to check out another country, I have to enter I'm from United Kingdom again.
And I always feel the question of "what am I looking at?" is best answered by looking at the form. I know the information is displayed in other places on the results page, but still, the form is the part of the page the user has already interacted with, and are familiar with.
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#18what's your data source? if it's not timatic, how do you guarantee it's accuracy? or is accuracy not this "product"'s main concern?
I've collected the information from various websites including wikipedia.
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#19Very misleading b/c layman may think just b/c you're travelling from A to B, you're required/not required to have visa, which is not true, it depends on the passport you hold regardless of your origin of your trip. For example, if you are travelling from Canada to the US, the site says you don't need a visa, but in fact if you do not hold Canadian passport, you may need to apply for ESTA.
Thanks for the info, I thought the process of A: home country, B: destination country. If you go on the site and check, going from the US to Canada the meta title is: Canada visa for United States citizens but I get your point, will make it more obvious. Thanks, good feedback!
Dutch citizens usually don't need a visa to travel to the US (they have to get an ESTA visa waiver instead), but if they have traveled to certain countries (in my case Sudan) they do need a visa.
The rules are more complex than can be answered based on a simple citizenship+destination question.
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#20What's your source of truth? Ideally it would be Timatic.
Also a good disclaimer to add is that this concerns visa for short visits.