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Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

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Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

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It 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.

Reads like satire! Now I'm genuinely sad the dutch currency isn't the Dutch Guilder...

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#23

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…

Exactly - visas aren't quite as black and white as the website appears to make out. There's visa on arrival vs having to go to an embassy/consulate (and there might not be one in the country you're currently in - it's not impossible to get yourself into a state where you have to travel back to your home country to be able to apply for a visa to your intended destination). Plus certain visas actually give you right of entry to other countries (for example if you have a US visa, you can enter nearly forty countries visa-free, some with caveats).

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#24
I think this is a very though subject and cannot be treated so easily.

Visa policies might be very different from one country to another, updated quiet often etc.

What you believe to be the source of truth on the internet might not be the actual truth. For personal reasons I recently had to know whether or not a Visa was required for a personal short travel to Russia for a Mauritius citizen. Various information can be found on the internet, some says yes, some says no. Your website says a visa is required. However, a visa is not required in this case.

It's very tricky to get the correct information, always up to date, and your website can lead to people having issues entering a country.

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#26

It 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.

Reads like satire! Now I'm genuinely sad the dutch currency isn't the Dutch Guilder...

It used to be, pre Euro :)

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#27

It 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.

I don't know if the site uses "mail city" as an equivalent to capital, because it also says "Hanoi is the mail city of Vietnam" (it's the capital but the largest city is Saigon/Ho Chi Minh, so it's debatable which one is the "main" one).

It's also full of other typos and badly formatted text, which I think is due to the data coming from a quick scrape of a source of dubious quality.

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#29
Maybe the OP or the makers of this website don't know, but there is a definitive source of visa, passport, and transit permission info that the IATA already publishes to help airlines determine whether they should allow you on a flight. It's called Timatic.

It includes such detail as country of travel origin, country of passport issuance, nationality, duration of stay, country of transit, visa/papers held.

I would go to that source first than any other cobbled together fancy looking website that someone is hawking as a advertisement. And I don't know why someone would bother trying to duplicate Timatic by gathering their own info, which is guaranteed to be out of date. Honestly I don't even know how some small team could keep up with the 100x100 combinations of country/destination paperwork requirements.

It's found through the airline websites themselves, as they have to subscribe as a service, like: https://www.united.com/web/en-us/apps/vendors/default.aspx?i...

Edit: The OP's website is already so slow and low in info content, and Timatic while ugly, works. Why was this even a website worth posting about?

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