How we verify

Researcher-verified against official sources. Each visa rule was checked by a researcher against the official source it links to: a government ministry, embassy, consulate, official e-visa portal or the visa-centre company a mission has appointed. Research tools, including AI, may help find and summarise those pages.

Unofficial sources are always labelled. For a few destinations whose government publishes no readable per-nationality visa rules, some rules are based on other sources: another government's official travel advice about that destination (for example UK FCDO or US State Department entry requirements), referenced secondary works such as cited Wikipedia visa-policy pages, and, with the lowest weight, visa agencies or traveller forums. Such a rule carries an orange “Unofficial source – not verified” label naming the source, is never counted as verified, and those pages are not submitted to search engines. Where these sources disagree, we don't publish the rule. Always confirm with the embassy before travel.

The check date is shown. Every rule shows when it was last checked (the rules on the site today were checked between 4 Oct 2026 and 2 Nov 2026). Rules can change after that date.

Official sources are re-checked automatically. Every night we re-fetch the official pages our rules rely on. If every page a rule relies on loads normally and its text has not changed since the rule was researched, the rule’s check date moves to that re-check. If a page has changed, the date is not moved; the rule is flagged for a researcher to review. Pages that block automated checks are checked by hand, and unofficial sources are never re-dated automatically.

Nothing is published from a failed fetch. If an official page can't be loaded or read, nothing from it is published or changed. When a fee, processing time or document list isn't stated on an official page, we leave it blank (“Not stated”, “Not verified yet”) rather than estimate.

Fees. The cost shown is what the official source states. Visa-centre, service or other third-party charges are mentioned in the notes where the source names them; they are not official government fees.

We are not a government authority. MyVisaPort is an independent information site. We don't issue visas or take applications. The embassy, consulate or official portal always has the final say — confirm with them before you book or travel.

Visas or residence permits you already hold. Some countries let travellers who need a visa enter differently if they hold a valid visa or residence permit of another country (for example the US, UK, a Schengen country, Canada or Japan). We show these alternative rules in a highlighted panel on the result page (30 rules for 28 destinations today). Each one is taken from the destination's own official source – an immigration authority, foreign ministry, official e-visa portal or, where marked, an embassy – with the conditions it states (for example multiple entry, a visa already used, a minimum validity left, or the port of entry), a short quote and the check date. We only include rules an official source confirms; where the source is unclear or we could not read it, the rule is left out. Your selection is kept only in the page address (?held=), never in cookies.

Working abroad. For 167 destinations we list the main work visa routes from the immigration authority's own pages: who each route is for, key requirements (job offer or sponsor, salary threshold, qualifications, language), fees, processing time, length and any path to residence, as stated by the source. Nationality-specific rights are shown first: free movement (for example EU citizens in the EU), no permit needed (for example the UK–Ireland Common Travel Area) and schemes such as working holiday or youth mobility programmes. Every route quotes the sentences of the official page it is based on, and our tooling checks those quotes against the fetched page before anything is published. We present routes and requirements; we never say that you qualify – the authority decides.

Safety information comes from official travel advice (UK FCDO, US State Department) and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), always with a link.

Photos come from Wikimedia Commons or Unsplash, each credited with author and licence on our credits page.

Spotted something wrong or out of date? Email [email protected] with the page link and the official source, or see the contact page.