VisaRadar is an independent information service, not an official body or a visa agency. Every published requirement cites its official source and verification date. See methodology

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Does your passport let you in?

Tell us and we'll give you the verdict for any destination: visa-free, e-Visa, electronic authorization, or a consular visa, with the official source cited alongside. No signup, no cost.

82 passports · 82 hand-verified destinations · open data from passport-index-dataset (MIT)

Index

Passports with the widest access right now

This ranking is within the 81 destinations VisaRadar covers for each passport (the 82 countries we track, minus your own, since nobody needs a visa for their own country), not a global index of the world's ~199 passports. That's why these numbers won't match indexes like Henley's or Passport Index: they measure access to every country on the planet, we measure only the coverage we've verified field by field. We'll keep expanding the base as we verify more destinations. More detail in methodology.

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Directory

Destinations by region

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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 6,642 passport-destination pages we've published, which you can browse from thepassport 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 onabout.

How we verify every requirement before publishing it

The baseline matrix of which passports need a visa for which countries comes from passport-index-dataset(MIT license), synced weekly. On top of that we add, country by country, by hand, what that dataset doesn't cover: consular fee in local currency and in USD/EUR, processing time in business days, required document lists, mandatory vaccinations, minimum health insurance coverage, customs limits, and overstay penalties. Every field carries its own verification date and a cited primary source (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 onmethodology.

Visa-free, e-Visa, or electronic authorization: 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 invisa, e-Visa, and electronic authorization: what's the difference. Entering visa-free means showing up with your passport and nothing else. An electronic authorization (US ESTA, South Korea's K-ETA, or the upcomingEuropean 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

Three 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, and the ranking orders passports by access across the destinations we cover.

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Guides for the question before it hits you at the airport

Beyond the passport-destination lookup, we maintain 19guides built around where travelers get tripped up most. A few of them, to give you the idea. On Schengen mechanics: how the90/180-day rule is actually counted (with ourSchengen calculator built in), when an airport transit still requires a visa even if you never leave the international zone, and whypassport 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 forsix months of passport validity even when it isn't legally required, and which destinations maketravel insurance an actual requirement rather than just an airline recommendation.

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Destinations with hand-verified data

For these destinations, beyond the yes/no answer, we have real consular fees, required documents, vaccinations, health insurance, and customs limits verified against a cited official source. Every other destination only shows the open dataset's base field until we verify it one by one.

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What we check by hand and what comes from the dataset

There is a page for each of the 6,642 passport and destination combinations that come out of the 82countries 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 authorization or consular visa) comes from the open passport-index-dataset, which we sync every week. 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 authorization 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.

Informational only. Always verify requirements with the official embassy or consulate before you travel.