Methodology and data sources
How entry rules are checked, how green and orange results work, and why some answers stay unknown.
We prefer an honest unknown to an unsupported green. This tool is a starting point for ordinary-passport holders taking short tourist trips by air, not a live immigration decision system.
Independent travel information. Not a government website.
Where an answer comes from
Confident answers use our own factual summaries of official government guidance, with a source link and checked date. We prefer the destination's immigration authority or embassy. Where we use an official home-country travel advisory, we name that source and restrict the answer to the passport holders its guidance actually covers. An advisory for one nationality is not proof of the rule for another.
We record the passport scope, destination, entry category, stated stay limit and conditions when verified, and the date the source was reviewed. We do not invent fees or processing times. A blank or "not verified" value is not a promise that an application is free or instant.
Last bundled data update: 2026-11-09. Individual checked dates are more important than this build-wide date. A revision to a legal page does not renew those dates.
The result labels
| Result | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Green: no visa needed / no advance visa needed | A current checked record supports the exact stated exemption from advance tourist-entry permission. Follow the label, conditions and material warnings; admission is not guaranteed. |
| Orange: an entry permission is needed | A visa, e-visa, electronic travel authorisation or visa on arrival is required. Read the expanded explanation; these are not the same process. |
| Not verified yet | Evidence for the visa classification is missing, expired, paused, conflicting or does not cover the chosen passport. We cannot safely give a confident visa answer. |
| Entry restricted or not permitted | A stated restriction is not ordinary visa eligibility. Follow the source and seek official advice. |
Most green results describe a visa exemption. A specifically labelled "No advance visa needed" result can explain a conditional visa granted at the border, including the Australian-citizen resident-visa route for New Zealand. This is not a general rule that visa-on-arrival routes are green; their normal classification remains orange. Eligibility conditions and the actual permission still matter.
Labels and words carry the meaning as well as colour. A required uncomplicated arrival declaration may be explained separately from visa status; if it is an advance entry permit or its nature is unclear, we do not show unconditional green.
A source-checked visa classification is not a fully checked admission assessment. Official sources can agree about visa eligibility while disagreeing about a separate stay allowance or passport condition. We may retain the visa classification only when it is independently established, remove the disputed figures, and visibly identify the unresolved condition and source disagreement. "Stay unconfirmed" is not permission to assume ninety days, three months or any other allowance. If the disagreement changes visa eligibility or cannot be separated from it, the result stays unknown.
Freshness and exceptions
Our maximum validity for a confident official-source review is 30 calendar days. After that, a record needs rechecking before it can remain a confident answer. This is our editorial safety rule, not a guarantee that a law cannot change earlier. Checking a link still opens is not the same as checking its rule.
We do not infer a current answer from an old dataset snapshot. Missing coverage stays unknown. We can disable an individual rule while investigating, and pause confident answers if the scope of a suspected error is unclear.
You can select up to two supported passports. The comparison is limited to the records shown. A lower visa requirement is not advice or permission to switch passports. The comparison does not resolve citizenship-related entry/exit duties, personal exceptions or every transit route. Confirm which passport to use with the relevant authorities.
Details, sources and sharing
Expanded details show the summary and facts, generic "Before you book" prompts, route-specific entry information and source information. Generic prompts are conditional checks, not a claim that every item is required for every route.
"Source checked" identifies a genuinely current official check for the stated passport. An overall "Source information" heading can include an individually verified passport alongside an unknown, paused or expired alternative; the other passport does not inherit that verification. Dataset or build dates are not official checked dates.
Share includes the displayed summary, facts, scope, any real checked-date/confirmed-stay line, material warnings and result link. The separate Copy result link action copies only the link. Shared text is a snapshot; opening its link re-evaluates the bundled records rather than extending their validity. Share and copy are unavailable in local-file and rights-uncleared research previews. See the privacy policy before sharing selected countries.
Dataset attribution and boundaries
The public launch answers are independently compiled official-source records. The open repositories Passport Index Data and 2019-2025 Passport Index Dataset by Ilya Ilyankou were evaluated as research candidates. Their MIT licences do not establish permission for all upstream Passport Index content. We do not redistribute their raw snapshots as the public rule source in this version, and are not affiliated with them or Passport Index.
Source authorities retain rights in their own website material. Our summaries do not imply their approval. Any bundled third-party code or assets remain subject to their own licence notices.
Corrections and commercial independence
See the corrections policy to report a problem. There is no payment for a preferred entry answer. No commercial content appears in the answer steps or expanded details; visa-application-service affiliate links are excluded. All optional commercial features are disabled.
Always follow the official source before booking and departure. See the disclaimer for important limits and the legal notice for Akin8's publisher information.