Visa Requirements

Travel companies are required by a 1992 EU law to tell clients of visa requirements. Airlines, unfortunately, have no duty of care to their customers. They check passports before letting you board largely to spare themselves the £2,000 fine extracted by unwelcoming host countries.

Advisory: Traveling to the United States? Effective January 12, 2009 the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) requires travelers to submit an online request for travel authorization via the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) prior to boarding a carrier to travel by air or sea to the United States. This is being done to allow visitors from participating countries to get speedy approval for travel to the U. S. for business or pleasure for 90 days or less without first obtaining a visa.

For more information about VISA and Passport requirements for individual countries visit

VISA and PASSPORT INFORMATION