How we check our information

Our method

1. Start from the source. We read the government portal, embassy notice or official statistics first, not blogs or listicles.
2. Check it twice. Every rule needs the official page plus one independent source. Where the official page is silent or can’t be opened, we say so on the page.
3. Cross-check with the airlines’ data. Airlines decide boarding with Timatic, which you can check on the IATA Travel Centre. We tell you to check it before you fly.
4. Date everything. Every page shows when we last checked it, and every fact links to its source.
5. Show the official price. We list the government fee beside every visa link, so agent sites can’t catch you out.
6. Fix fast. Every page has a “report a change” form. Confirmed changes are corrected and logged below.

How sure we are

The visa data

For every passport and country, the entry type comes from the open Passport Index Data (updated 17 Feb 2026), which covers 199 passports. We correct it where newer official notices show a change, such as Thailand’s new rules from 15 September 2026, Kenya’s eTA exemptions, Sri Lanka’s ETA and the US travel ban, and we label every page that relies on the dataset alone.

Every source we use

The 98 sources behind the rules on this site, checked on 17 Oct 2026. Some official portals block automated checks: the pages that rely on them say so and lean on a second source.

Corrections log

• 17 Oct 2026

  We switched to a newer visa dataset (Passport Index Data, updated 17 February 2026) and now cover every passport. Our earlier pages said the dataset was from 18 February 2026, but that was the date its archive was last edited: the visa data itself was from 12 January 2025. About 2,900 passport and country entries changed. We also applied Thailand’s new rules and the full US travel ban to every passport, and marked passports that Thailand’s new lists don’t name as “check first”.

Data licences

Visa data adapted from Passport Index Data (github.com/imorte/passport-index-data), which continues the Passport Index dataset by Ilya Ilyankou. Both are used under the MIT licence:

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