Visa & travel guides

For Indian passport holders, knowing exactly where you can travel without a prior embassy visa saves time, money and uncertainty. This guide breaks do…

Nigerian passport holders face some of the world's more demanding visa requirements, which makes it especially valuable to know precisely where you ca…

This guide lists every country a Pakistani passport holder can visit without arranging a visa in advance — whether that means visa-free entry, a visa …

Filipino passport holders enjoy visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to a large number of countries across Asia, the Americas and beyond. This guide se…

Bangladeshi passport holders need a visa for most of the world, which makes the destinations that waive it — or grant one at the border — genuinely wo…

Kenyan passport holders benefit from strong access across Africa and the Caribbean, including broad visa-free travel within the East African Community…

Vietnamese passport holders can travel across much of Southeast Asia without a visa thanks to ASEAN agreements, and a growing list of countries furthe…

Indonesian passport holders enjoy some of the widest visa-free access in Southeast Asia — the whole ASEAN region plus a long list of destinations acro…

Egyptian passport holders can reach a meaningful set of destinations across Africa, Asia and the Middle East without arranging a visa in advance. This…

Sri Lankan passport holders need a visa for much of the world, which makes the exceptions worth knowing precisely. This guide lists every destination …

Nepali passport holders have open-border access to India and visa-free or on-arrival entry to a modest but useful set of destinations across Asia, Afr…

The Chinese passport has moved faster than almost any other in recent years, as Beijing signed a wave of mutual visa-exemption agreements and more cou…

Turkish passport holders sit at a genuine crossroads: strong access across Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia and much of Southeast Asia, but a visa re…

Brazil holds one of the strongest passports outside Europe and North America: visa-free travel across the whole of Europe, nearly all of South America…

Mexican passport holders travel visa-free across Europe and most of Latin America, which surprises people who assume the opposite from the paperwork r…

The South African passport is among the strongest on the continent, with broad access across southern Africa and a useful spread of destinations in As…

For Ghanaian passport holders, ECOWAS free movement makes West Africa straightforward, and a growing number of countries further afield now accept an …

Many countries will refuse entry — and many airlines will refuse boarding — if your passport expires within six months of your arrival date. It catche…

This is the single most misunderstood thing on a visa, and misunderstanding it is one of the most common ways ordinary travellers end up overstaying. …

Being asked to show that you intend to leave is one of the most common reasons travellers are stopped at check-in — including travellers who need no v…

The number of entries on your visa decides how many separate times you may cross into the country. It is easy to overlook, and the classic way to disc…

Sometimes yes, sometimes no, and occasionally you need permission just to stay inside the terminal. It depends on the country you are connecting throu…

"Visa-free", "visa on arrival", "eVisa" and "ETA" get used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing — and mixing them up can mean being turned…