Does your passport let you in?

What VisaRadar solves

Before you book a flight, something weighs more than the ticket price: whether your passport gets you in, and on what terms. VisaRadar answers that for any passport and country. The 39,402 passport-destination pages we've published, which you can browse from the passport ranking or reach through the lookup form above, go past yes or no: the fee for the procedure that applies to you where we have it verified, required documents, real processing time, and whether health insurance or proof of funds is required. We're not a visa agency or an official body, and the final call is always the consulate's or the border officer's, but we are the starting point before any real paperwork. The criteria we use to decide what gets published and what doesn't is on about.

How we verify every requirement before publishing it

The baseline matrix of which passports need a visa for which countries comes from an open database we review every month, and where an official source contradicts it on a specific pair, the verified figure wins. On top of that we add, country by country, by hand, what the matrix doesn't cover: the fee for the entry procedure (visa, e-Visa, or electronic authorisation), processing time, required document lists, mandatory vaccinations, minimum health insurance coverage, customs limits, and overstay penalties. Every destination carries its own verification date and cited primary sources (embassy, consulate, or an official government instruction), never one global date for the whole site. If we can't find an official source to back a field, it stays empty instead of approximated: we'd rather leave a visible gap than publish an invented number. The full protocol, with examples of accepted and rejected sources, is on methodology.

Visa-free, e-Visa, or electronic authorisation: not the same thing

These are four different procedures that get mixed up constantly, and that confusion is behind a good share of last-minute surprises at the airport. We break it down with verified examples in visa, e-Visa, and electronic authorisation: what's the difference. Entering visa-free means showing up with your passport and nothing else. An electronic authorisation (US ESTA, South Korea's K-ETA, or the upcoming European ETIAS) is not a visa: it's a pre-approval to board, but the officer at the border still makes the final call. An e-Visa is a real visa, just applied for online instead of at a consulate. And a visa on arrival is processed physically at the destination airport, with the risk of queues and denial with no time to react. Every destination page on VisaRadar tells you which of the four applies to your specific passport.

Tools

Seven free tools, no signup, each for one concrete question. The lookup above tells you the exact procedure for your passport-destination pair, the Schengen calculator tells you how many of the 90 days available in any 180-day window you've already used, the ranking orders passports by access across the destinations we cover and the per-passport list shows at a glance which countries you can enter visa-free. The working holiday section collects the programmes your passport can apply for to travel and work, and the other-visas section tells you which destinations you can enter with a US visa, a Schengen visa or a residence permit from another country. The digital nomad section compares the visas for living abroad while you work remotely.

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Guides for the question before it hits you at the airport

Beyond the passport-destination lookup, we maintain 27 guides built around where travellers get tripped up most. A few of them, to give you the idea. On Schengen mechanics: how the 90/180-day rule is actually counted (with our Schengen calculator built in), when an airport transit still requires a visa even if you never leave the international zone, and why passport stamping matters less since the EU rolled out the EES system. On entry risk: what to do if you're denied entry, why so many countries ask for six months of passport validity even when it isn't legally required, and which destinations make travel insurance an actual requirement rather than just an airline recommendation.

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Destinations with hand-verified data

For all 199 destinations we track, beyond the yes/no answer, we have checked the procedure fee, required documents, vaccinations, health insurance, and customs limits against a cited official source. Here are a few of them, and the country directory has the full list.

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What we check by hand and what comes from an open database

There is a page for each of the 39,402 passport and destination combinations that come out of the 199 countries we track, and it helps to know where each part comes from, because they don't all carry the same backing. The entry verdict (visa-free, e-Visa, electronic authorisation or consular visa) comes from an open database, which we review every month. Everything around that verdict we write by hand against the country's official source, with the date we checked it: the fee charged by the authorisation system, the paperwork required, vaccines, medical insurance and customs allowances. And when the procedure depends on the passport you travel with, such as the consulate or the BLS/VFS centre where the application is filed, that specific corridor also has a page of its own that we checked.

A figure we cannot confirm against a primary source stays empty, because the gap tells you more than an approximation would.