About the data
Where every answer on this site comes from, and how it stays current.
Where the answers come from
For 199 of 199 passports, every answer comes from that passport's Wikipedia article ("Visa requirements for … citizens"). Those articles are edited by volunteers, usually within days of a rule change, and cite government sources. They are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; each page names and links the article it used.
A passport only uses its article when the article's table parses cleanly. Everything else, and any destination missing from an article, comes from Passport Index Data (imorte), scraped from passportindex.org (MIT licence), published 17 Feb 2026. When the two disagree, the route page says so.
Visa-holder benefits
The extra rules for people who already hold a US, UK, Schengen or similar visa are curated by hand. Each one lists its sources and a confidence flag. When sources disagree we say so on the page.
How it refreshes
- A weekly job downloads every Wikipedia visa article and the latest Passport Index data, and validates both: a recognisable table, at least 150 mapped destinations per article, known categories and country codes.
- It compares the new matrix with the last snapshot and records every change. If more than 15% of routes change at once, the refresh stops for a human check, because that usually means the source broke.
- Hand-made corrections are applied on top, and curated visa-holder rules are flagged for review whenever the route they describe changes or their source page is edited.
- The site rebuilds with the new data and the change log you see on the What changed page.
Flags and maps
Flags are from the open-source flag-icons project (MIT). Country facts come from mledoze/countries (ODbL).
Please double-check before you fly
Visa rules change with little notice and airlines decide whether to board you. Treat this site as a guide, and confirm with the destination's official embassy or immigration website before booking.