Who publishes this, and how do we know?

TravelLab is published from Türkiye by Mustafa, who writes on travel as @mustiyeey. It is not a visa agency, a law firm or a relocation consultancy, and it does not sell visas, golden passports or citizenship programmes. Nothing on this site is a commercial recommendation to apply anywhere.

That independence is the point. Most pages that rank for "visa free countries for X passport" belong to firms selling residency or citizenship; their list is a lead magnet. Ours is the product. When our data says a border is closed, no one here loses a sale.

The visa matrix behind every passport and destination page is a single dataset covering 199 destinations and the nationalities that can enter them, with the permitted length of stay attached to each pairing. It is maintained by hand against primary sources: the entry rules published by the destination country, the foreign ministry of the traveller's country, and the official pages of the border systems involved — for Europe that means the EU's own EES and ETIAS pages rather than a news summary of them.

News stories carry their source as a link, always, and the link points at the institution rather than at an aggregator wherever the institution publishes in a language we can read. When two sources disagree, we say so in the text instead of picking the more convenient one.

We do not publish a number we cannot source. If a fee, a stay length or a rule has no traceable origin, it does not go on the page — not even as an estimate, because an estimate wearing the typography of a fact is worse than a blank.

We do not publish thin pages. A page exists here only if it answers something the data can genuinely answer; repeating the same table in a new wrapper is not a page.

We do not hide commercial relationships. Where a link earns a commission, it is disclosed on the page and on our disclosure page.

Border rules change without notice, and sometimes they change before we notice. Every visa page on this site carries a disclaimer telling you to confirm with an official source before you travel, and we mean it literally: the cost of a mistake here is a refused boarding, and it is paid by you rather than by us.

If you find something wrong, tell us. Corrections are made at the source — in the dataset, not just on the page you were reading — so the fix propagates everywhere that number appears. We would rather be corrected than be quoted incorrectly.