The Best Resource For Passport & Visa Requirements For Travel

Wow, every days a learning day! I spend a ridiculous amount of hours researching the countries own government websites, this is so much easier. Thanks

If you are a US citizen traveling with an American passport the other resource is the State Department’s travel website. Would rank it higher than IATA personally. https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel.html

This is AWESOME, thank you for posting this!

I still research govt website for confirmation. I can't remember which country it was but timatic once gave a not up to date information. I think it was one of those countries that let you in if you had a visa for a 3rd country

Handy tool, I currently use traveldoc.aero (old website) and it gives similar info and links.

I'd even say that it's more precise as you can add the visas and residence permits you hold (only on the legacy website). Very handy, especially for Latin America countries, as you can travel visa-free to some places with a Schengen Visa/residence permit.

I've also typically used the State Department's website (and will continue to do so), but I will say after trying out the IATA site, I'll be keeping it bookmarked for quickly looking up visa requirements in the future.

@Ben, for context not all airlines using IATA Timatic e.g. Star Alliance carriers use a tool called Star Auto Doc Check

Now, agree with Ken, I always use government information for confirmation. And if something is unusual (e.g. a few years ago I traveled to Singapore which had a 96 hour visa waiver for my partner, under certain conditions she met), I always print the page from the government website (and in that case it proved useful!)

The US State Department always has accurate info for each country. Search https://travel.state.gov/ and the name of the country and look at "Entry Exit and Visa Requirements"

If you use Seats.aero (no subscription needed) you can also easily view this under the "tools section". It's under Timatic-Visa checks. This is a nice link though

Useful for a quick check but I only rely on government website. The only source of truth I trust.

Timatic is useful and is generally accurate, but you should ALWAYS double check it against your government's site for that respective country. It's essentially pulling information from those sites. It is a very easy tool to start your research with, though.

Timatic doesn't "pull information" from those sites. The information is actually submitted to the Timatic team by IATA member airlines operating in various countries.

Didn't mean that in a literal sense, but thank you for clarifying. The point still stands - there can be a delay or other accuracy issues with Timatic. This goes back to why it should always be double checked against a government's page.

Dude this is super useful and also...the AI stuff. I work in AI. People should not be relying on AI as much as they do. I recently asked for the best methods of booking a train journey to a city I'd been to before, and it was wrong about so much. Luckily I knew what I was doing and had already booked, and was just looking for fun. But these things...are not ready for prime time.

I've been using this (as a US citizen) for years and haven't had an issue. It's quick to see every country at once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_United_States_citizens

Use ChatGPT and pray

Thks for posting!

Thank you. Very helpful!

Just wanted to share for Canadians Govt of Canada has amazing official site TRAVEL.GC.CA which gives updated travel info for Canadians Citizens holding Canada Passport for every country of the world from visa requirements to health requirements and all the important advisories for each country of the world issued by Govt of Canada. This website is THE MOST AUTHENTIC tool to find out everything before you go outside Canada.

And if you are an aethiest?

I first used TIMATIC in the 1970s when I began my airline career. state.gov is accurate also.