Reliable travel visa requirements for any country combination
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- Aparna Patel
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- 6 Aug, 2023
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VisaCentral.com is another site, recommended by Celebrity Cruises, so I assume they handle sea crossing. Though in a random test for Curacao visas, I didn’t see anything specific about air vs. sea.
As jpatokal mentioned, Timatic is one of the most complete databases and is what is used by the airlines.
Unfortunately, the pages that the airlines see, with a complete list of requirements given each country and nationality, along with all the exceptions and special rules, is not easy to find. The “IATA Travel Centre” is really terrible to use, as it just gives you a Yes or No answer, without saying why; nor does it give you the ability to enter many country-specific travel documents and such.
However, the pages with complete information are still accessible, if you know where to look. KLM has a public interface into Timatic.
The authoritative source is Timatic, which IATA shares with the public as the IATA Travel Centre.
The interface is slow and clunky, but the results are absolutely accurate. The same tool is used by all airlines to check documents for international travel, so if Timatic says no, you’re not flying.
The one catch is that Timatic is meant for flights, and countries do occasionally have different requirements for land or sea crossings. Usually this just means that eg. given border points are not open to foreigners or don’t issue visas on arrival, not that the actual entry requirements to the country are different.
Visa requirements change occasionally for countries, and more frequently for others. There are edge cases, events and more.
As a result, each of these companies or sites that track them may not have all the information. I like VisaHQ but it’s not necessarily perfect either. They try their best, after all, it’s in their best interest to be up to date and accurate, but stuff will be missing if they couldn’t find it, or potentially out of date.
When it comes down to it, the most reliable means of finding out the travel visa requirements is from the country itself, or their embassy/consulate in your country. In your case, for example, you can contact the Embassy of Colombia in Romania.
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