Interesting overview of requirements.
I use https://www.viselio.com/. They take it a step further and offer a fully automated visa application form. Just enter the country you want to travel to and they take care of the visa.
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#32Very 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.
Easy fix: Change "Travel from" to "Citizenship" or "Passport Origin" on the UI.
The issue is that it also depends on the place of departure.
For example, a Chinese person wanting to go to Taiwan from china will need 2 visas: one from the chinese gov., and the other from taiwan authorities.
But when the same person leaves from another country, only the visa delivered by taiwan is needed.
Visas are complicated
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#33Where 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 ambulanc…
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#34I wouldn't recommend this website for visa information. For example, I put in "United States" -> "Peru" - it says visa is required and when clicked on more information it takes me to a page where it lists which countries require visa for traveling to Peru. In that list among the visa required countries, it shows "united states" and in no visa required section it has "united statesa"
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#35It 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...
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#36Wife 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…
> visas aren't quite as black and white as the website appears to make out
There are many of these sites and none of them ever has information that can actually be trusted.
The truth is that entry requirements are much too complicated to treat with a single uniform method, and the only reliable way to know what you have to do is to visit both your country's foreign ministry website and the website of the foreign country's consulate in your own country. Maybe the foreign country's foreign ministry website as well.
And even then, for some countries with somewhat shaky administration and rules you still won't be sure of what you need.
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#37I 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 b…
Furthermore this website is dangerous. People travelling you thailand are advised by their embassies to bring 20,000 baht. It’s often not checked on arrival but people have been thrown in jail cells and deported because of this.
Visa information is no joke. You should always get it from the local embassy website.
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#38Can’t use their contact form - it’s just not working, so posting it here:
Hey there,
Tested your website - putting travel from Ukraine to Switzerland and Germany and your website says visa required, however it is not for 90 days for Ukrainian citizens holders of the biometric passport. Please update.
Also your website is really slow. Let me know, if you need hints on optimization for loading.
Alex
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#40Cool site. However, I found that it seems to search/replace "us" with "United States" in certain places where it's not expected, e.g.:
"A bUnited Statesiness visa requires an invitation from a company..."