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1. When I click on a country name, I see country information and have to click on a tab to see visa information. Poor user experience.
2. The "visa required" list for a country is not sorted alphabetically. It's just an unusable mess, really.
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.
wow thanks I don't know how I missed that, will fix it asap!!!
>We warmly welcome you, our dear client! If you read these lines it means you have a concern, or you just want to know who is behind this site. And we want to know so let’s get together!
(follows a lenghty explanation of how to use Iavisa and on what is a Visa)
So they don't even know who they are?
Yet in the "Terms" page there is this little pearl of wisdom:
>Thirdly, it’s time to talk about protecting your data, a very special topic nowadays. It is your responsibility to keep your phone and access to the web app secure. It is not recomended to jailbreak or even root your phone, which is the process of the removing software restrictions and limitations imposed by the official operating system to your device. If you do this, it could make your phone vulnerable to malicious, viruses and malware programs, compromise your phone’s security features and it could meant that the web app won’t work properly or at all.
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Literally there should NOT be a website like this, because even with slight misinformation, you can get in a lot of troubles: both financial and even more so safety wise if one of 10,000 info points on some tropical configuration of your citizenship, residency, passport type, stamps you have in your passport, plves you been, etc, will be not updated in time and you take it on its face value . Furthermore, the owner d…
I mean, "this site should not exist" is being a little harsh, don't you think? Yes misinformation is dangerous, but the author certainly could link to airline sites, the official government travel information websites for each country, and wikipedia and other resources. If you can't even think far enough ahead to come up with these constructive suggestions, then maybe you should try harder or just not comment.
It's not overly harsh. When the cost of being wrong is this high, then this site (or any such site) should not be publicly available until it is reliable.
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Apologies for negativity in my post. I did not realize that OP him/herself had made this website and might have been a first effort. Still, I think my points are valid. Unless this is a personal hobby or tinkering effort, I would advise the OP to invest his/her time on something that is sustainable and not already covered at 10x the expertise by an existing service (in a relatively stable industry, more importantly).…
What some people call “negativity” is in my opinion concise and honest feedback. Personally, when I see “show hn” posts, this is a signal that the OP is asking for feedback and often due to time constraints or one’s personal writing style, some folks interpret straight to the point feedback as “negative” when in reality it is generally based on the responder wanting to help.
For instance, China. It says that for US citizens a visa is required. That's half true.
* There's TWOV (transit without visa)
* Transit Visa On Arrival where if you're connecting to a third country within 24-144 hours depending which city you're visiting you can get a transit visa when you get there that entitles you to visit just the city in which you landed but not leave. [1]
* Hainan has a 30-day visa waiver program if you apply through a travel agency. [2]
* Hainan has a 30-day visa on arrival program. [2]
* Hong Kong and Macau are 90 days visa on arrival.
In this kind of international diplomatic space, accuracy matters more than anything else.
[1] https://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/visa/free-72hour/
[2] https://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/hainan/visa-free...
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Fwiw even timatic is wrong. I visited your link and entered India and Turkey as departure and arrival for Indian nationals. The system advised me to apply for an eVisa, however eligibility criteria for eVisas is exclusive to folks who have a valid EU Schengen visa. Someone who casually relied on the result without reading further would have missed this. The bottom line is travel is expensive and visa rejections have…
I hope more people carefully read your comment. This stuff is important and changes at the whims of bureaucrats and politicians - you need to check this yourself on the destination countries website unless it is a known quantity. ie Canadians can probably rely on their travel status to the US if they aren't seeing something as a top story on the news. Similarly EU citizens can probably rely on the UK.. oh wait a sec.…
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Fwiw even timatic is wrong. I visited your link and entered India and Turkey as departure and arrival for Indian nationals. The system advised me to apply for an eVisa, however eligibility criteria for eVisas is exclusive to folks who have a valid EU Schengen visa. Someone who casually relied on the result without reading further would have missed this. The bottom line is travel is expensive and visa rejections have…
I don't think it's fair to say TIMATIC is wrong in this instance - it does say visa required and eVisa is acceptable. It did not say the eVisa can be obtained by everyone.
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…
Fwiw even timatic is wrong. I visited your link and entered India and Turkey as departure and arrival for Indian nationals. The system advised me to apply for an eVisa, however eligibility criteria for eVisas is exclusive to folks who have a valid EU Schengen visa. Someone who casually relied on the result without reading further would have missed this. The bottom line is travel is expensive and visa rejections have…
Probably if you are in such a situation you will quickly find out on trying to apply that you are not eligible.
While the OP's website for example (to take current news) doesn't even have an entry for Hong Kong.
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What some people call “negativity” is in my opinion concise and honest feedback. Personally, when I see “show hn” posts, this is a signal that the OP is asking for feedback and often due to time constraints or one’s personal writing style, some folks interpret straight to the point feedback as “negative” when in reality it is generally based on the responder wanting to help.
The problem is that visa policy is so complex, unless you rely on an authoritative source like TIMATIC it's not going to be right, and that's going to cause people to not book trips they would have -- or worse, book, expecting to go, and have to cancel. For instance, China. It says that for US citizens a visa is required. That's half true. * There's TWOV (transit without visa) * Transit Visa On Arrival where if you'r…
You get an idea of how much work is required.