Check whether your trip may face visa, passport validity, transit, onward-ticket, or Schengen stay-limit issues before you travel.
Combines structured travel-rule checks across visa, passport, transit, onward-ticket, and Schengen stay-limit logic.
Checks whether your passport requires a visa, eVisa, eTA, or visa on arrival for the destination.
Verifies that your passport meets the destination's minimum validity rule beyond your departure date.
Checks whether your transit stops require a separate transit visa or airside transit authorization.
Evaluates onward ticket requirements and combines all checks into a single entry risk assessment.
Fill in your trip to run a combined entry risk check.
Helps determine passport validity rules.
Common questions about travel entry risk, visa rules, and boarding compliance.
Run more detailed individual checks for specific parts of your trip.
Airline Boarding Check
Full pre-flight readiness check across visa, passport, transit, and onward ticket.
Transit Visa Checker
Detailed transit visa check for specific passport and airport combinations.
Passport Validity Checker
Check whether your passport meets the minimum validity rule for your destination.
Schengen Calculator
Calculate your remaining Schengen days using the 90/180-day rolling window rule.
Trip Visa Finder
Get a full visa requirement summary for your entire itinerary.
Visa-free access means you can enter a country without applying for a visa in advance. It does not mean entry is guaranteed. Immigration officers retain the right to refuse entry to any traveler who cannot demonstrate sufficient funds, a clear purpose of visit, a valid onward booking, or adequate passport validity. Airlines, who are liable for return costs if passengers are denied entry, apply their own pre-boarding checks before you ever reach immigration.
Airlines use IATA Timatic — an industry database of entry requirements — to verify passengers at check-in. Airline ground staff check passport validity, visa requirements, transit visa needs, and in some cases onward ticket status before issuing a boarding pass. If a passenger is admitted onto a flight and subsequently denied entry, the airline bears the cost of the return journey. This creates a strong financial incentive for airlines to apply entry rules strictly, sometimes more strictly than the rules technically require.
Passport validity rules exist because immigration systems need to ensure documents remain valid for the duration of a person's stay and for any subsequent administrative process. The "6-month rule" common in Southeast Asia and the Middle East is a buffer against travelers overstaying or encountering document issues. Onward ticket requirements exist to demonstrate that travelers have the means and intention to leave — reducing the burden on immigration systems. Both rules can be enforced at the departure airport before a flight even lands.
Every country a traveler transits through has its own rules governing transit. Some countries require an Airside Transit Visa (DATV) for certain passport holders — even if the traveler remains in the international departure zone and never clears immigration. The UK, some Schengen countries, and Canada maintain lists of passport nationalities that require transit authorization. Critically, the originating airline checks transit visa requirements before issuing a boarding pass, so a missing transit authorization will prevent boarding at the departure city, not just at the connection point.
The Schengen Area applies a rolling 90/180-day rule: visitors without a long-stay visa may not spend more than 90 days in the Schengen Area within any 180-day window. The window is not a fixed calendar period — it moves backward from any specific date. Travelers who visit Schengen countries frequently can exceed the limit without realizing it. The EU's Entry/Exit System (EES), being rolled out progressively, will automate tracking of days spent in the Schengen Area by stamping electronic records rather than passport pages. Travelers who exceed the limit may be denied entry at the border and potentially flagged in future immigration checks.
