Our methodology
What this site is
TravelRequirements.info is an independent reference for entry requirements: visas, passport validity, vaccinations, mandatory insurance, arrival cards and customs rules. We do not sell visas or process applications — we always link to the official government portal where each document is actually issued.
Where the data comes from
Every fact is compiled directly from official sources: each country's immigration portal and foreign ministry, official EU sites (ETIAS, EES) and international bodies. Next to every fact we show the exact source and the date we last checked it.
How we keep it current
All data lives in one structured dataset. A file per destination, with a schema and automated checks that run before anything is published. Re-verification happens in batches: a tool selects the destinations whose check date is oldest, and every cited fact is compared against its official source again. 199 of 199 destinations have been through such a pass so far. If nothing changed, the verification date moves; if something changed, the fact is corrected, the change date recorded, and the change published on the updates page. The dataset itself is published under an open licence, with its files, its coverage counts and its caveats: the dataset and its files.
How this content is produced
The first version of this dataset was drafted in August 2026 by a large language model, from its training knowledge, and cited to the authorities' front pages. We do not treat anything from that draft as a source. Since then every published value has been re-read against an official page, and is published only beside the official sentence it rests on, copied verbatim from the page it cites. A value no official page confirms is withdrawn rather than kept.
Re-verification passes are also run by an AI agent, working under a written contract: it reads the official pages with a real browser, compares each cited fact with them, and may record only what a page states. Its changes are logged one by one on the updates page and gated by automated checks before anything is built — the schema, contradictions between rows, hedged wording standing in for a source, and whether every quoted sentence is still on the page cited for it. The people who publish this site write those rules, read the agent's reports, handle corrections sent to contact@travelrequirements.info, and decide what the site shows and what it withholds. Arabic pages are machine-translated from the English string by string through the same pipeline, and a page whose translation lags the data says so.
What exactly backs each fact
Two caveats we would rather state ourselves. First, not every government source is first-hand: some facts come from one government's page describing another country's rules, and we are steadily replacing those with each country's own issuing authority — the US State Department advisories that used to be our most-cited source have been replaced with advice from governments whose pages anyone can open. Second, the visa matrix (over 39,000 passport-and-destination combinations) rests on the source cited at page or policy level, not on a citation per cell; the entry requirements, fees and rules in the comparison tables each carry their own source.
What “verified” actually points at
A citation can do four different jobs and we now say which. 5,200 of our 18,841 citations name the act and article the rule rests on — the €90 Schengen visa fee is Article 16(1) of the Visa Code, not a sentence on a portal. 391 are the authority's own application portal, which shows the figure only inside its eligibility check, forms or fee screens, and 129 are an authority's front page, which prints no specific figure at all. Both are marked next to the date, so you know where to look. The rest point at a particular page, and the table below is what happened when we re-read every one of them.
What re-reading the pages found
On Oct 11, 2026 we took every published number that can be checked mechanically — fees, validity, permitted stays, processing times, passport-validity months, blank pages, insurance minimums — and looked for it on the page it cites. That is 2,800 figures against 1,522 pages, and this is the whole result rather than the flattering half of it:
| Result | Figures | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Stated | 921 | The page says this number, in a sentence about the same thing. |
| On the page | 1,088 | The number is on the page, but not in a sentence we could tie to this fact. |
| Not on the page | 768 | The page was read and simply does not state this figure. The ordinary case, and the reason for the two marks above. |
| Different | 18 | The page states another number for the same thing. Every one was read by hand; corrections are on the updates page. |
| Unreadable | 5 | Neither the live page nor its archived copy could be read on the last attempt. |
The silence is not mainly an accuracy problem, it is a citation problem: most of these pages never print the figure in any wording, and for a large part of the corpus no linkable government page does. That is why we say which of the four jobs a citation is doing instead of showing one tick everywhere. This paragraph's numbers come out of the check itself, so they cannot drift from it.
What our dates mean
“Verified” is the last time we checked a fact against its official source — even when nothing changed. The page's modified date reflects the last real content change. We never inflate dates to fake freshness. 175 of 33,640 citations have not been re-read since the dataset was first compiled, so their date is the compile date. The site marks those “Compiled” rather than “Verified”, and sources.csv lists them.
Important limitations
Immigration rules change without notice, and the final decision always rests with border authorities. This site is a reference, not legal advice. Before traveling, confirm requirements at the official source linked next to each fact, and with your airline.
Independence & funding
AXG Sp. z o.o., the company that publishes this site, does not sell visas, process applications or operate any visa service, so there is no application we could be steering you toward. We accept no payment from governments or intermediaries to alter information, and the build enforces the rest: every apply, buy and permit link must resolve to a government or intergovernmental domain, or be listed by name with its operator recorded, or the site does not build. If we ever carry sponsored links they will be clearly marked, and they will never replace the official link.
Found an error?
Email contact@travelrequirements.info with the page and the correct official source. We fix errors fast, and the correction will be logged on the updates page.