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Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by officemonkey »

flexie wrote: post #118
wting wrote: post #47

I don't understand the presentation. Allow the user to choose nationality from a drop down box, then show a world map colored various ways: - green no visa - blue for easy to obtain visas - red for difficult to obtain visas On a side note, it should probably be "United States citizen" and not "US". Also, US -> China is a very common route that requires a visiting / mailing your passport to a Chinese embassy to obtain…

Come on. It's a great little service whether there is a map or not. Drop downs with autocomplete work well for choosing countries. I especially like that there are links to primary sources and that the service is careful when it doesn't know: "Sorry, we've no information available. We're careful to only use accurate, first-hand information, but have been unable to confirm the visa requirements for Andorran citizens t…

I suppose that OP wanted feedback. Suggestions for improvements aren't criticism, they're free consulting.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by glyphobet »

This is great. Some thoughts:

* It abbreviates "US" in "US Citizen" but not "United States". I would expect both "United States Citizen" and "US" (country) to work too. It uses "British Citizen" vs. "United Kingdom". Both "United Kingdom Citizen" and "Britain" should work too.

* Using ISO 3166 country codes in the URLs would make them shorter.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by drazvan »

padwan wrote: post #101
drazvan wrote: post #7

A quick rule of thumb for European Union member states: no visas are needed for any EU citizen to go any other EU country (as a tourist). It shows that I need a visa to go from Romania to the UK or Sweden (that is false, Romania, the UK and Sweden are all EU members).

Sure about that? Romania is not in the Schengen area.. http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/bor...

Yes, I'm sure. Your ID (not necessarily a passport) is still checked at the border of the Schengen space (at the entry point) but you don't need a passport or a visa of any kind. You just show your Romanian ID to the customs officer and then enter the country.

There's a document issued by the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs: http://www.mai.gov.ro/Documente/Utile/Calatoria%20in%20Europ... (unfortunately they didn't bother writing it in anything other than Romanian) - it clearly states that Romanians do not need visas for any EU country (but they still need either a passport or an ID card).

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by andrewhyde »

"US citizens do not require a visa to visit Argentina. US citizens do not require a visa to visit Argentina, however US citizens must pay a "reciprocity fee" prior to arrival and present the receipt for doing so when entering Argentina. "

You have to pay the reciprocity fee for a visa as of two years ago.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by sleepyhead »

vellum wrote: post #57

You should put the US as the first choice in the drop down box, since that's where most of your traffic will come from. Later when you have more data, you could put the top 15 in the first choices.

Really, Americans travel abroad now? ;)

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by ColinWright »

wting wrote: post #47

I don't understand the presentation. Allow the user to choose nationality from a drop down box, then show a world map colored various ways: - green no visa - blue for easy to obtain visas - red for difficult to obtain visas On a side note, it should probably be "United States citizen" and not "US". Also, US -> China is a very common route that requires a visiting / mailing your passport to a Chinese embassy to obtain…

Disagree that your suggestion should be the only option. Many people are going to travel to a country, and yet they can't pick the country on a map. Being able to input the country name is very important.

I would suggest that the user should be able to type the name, or part of it, and have the interface suggest closest matches for the cases (most) where they get it wrong but close enough.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

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Post by krschultz »

hmottestad wrote: post #125
wandermatt wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So these are people who live outside of the United States that describe their nationality as "American"? Do any of them live in countries that actually have "America" in the name?

One of my canadian friends likes to raise her hand at big meetings when someone asks if there are any americans there.

And if your friend had to choose one and only one descriptor between "Canadian" or "American", what would they say?
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