We Just Verified 13 New Destinations. Here's Exactly How.

We just added 13 destinations to Trip Check — Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, India, the UAE, Thailand, Turkey, and Australia among them — bringing the total to 16, on top of the Schengen Area. Here's the part that actually matters: how, not just how many.

The rule we don't break, even to move faster

Every entry requirement and every customs verdict on this site has to trace to a primary official source — that destination's own immigration authority, its own customs authority, the actual regulation — checked directly, cited, and dated. Not a travel blog's summary of the rule. Not what we remember being true. Not a plausible guess filled in to complete a table.

That constraint is slower than the alternative. It's also the entire reason this site is worth trusting over one that answers instantly for every country by inference.

What "verified" caught, repeatedly

Doing this properly for 13 countries at once surfaced real problems a faster process would have missed:

• Nigeria discontinued visa-on-arrival in May 2025. Several sites still describe the old system. We found the current one.
• Thailand's 60-day visa-exemption is cabinet-approved for a cut to 30 or 15 days — but not yet published in the Royal Gazette. We published the rule that's actually in force today, not the one that's coming.
• A government-branded e-Visa domain for one country now redirects to a private company. The security certificate is genuine, so it's likely a legitimate contractor handover — but we didn't cite anything from that domain until we understand what happened, and we're flagging it for a closer look.
• Two independent reads of the same official page gave contradictory answers on which nationalities need a visa — the single highest-stakes question that page answers. We caught it by re-parsing the raw page instead of trusting a summarized read, and we're carrying that lesson into every source we check from here on.

What we didn't publish

Just as important: several facts we went looking for — specific medication quantity limits, drone customs rules, a handful of stay-length figures — simply aren't published anywhere we could find, for any of these countries. We left those gaps open rather than fill them with a plausible-sounding number. You'll see "not yet verified" in those spots, and that's deliberate, not an oversight.

Where this goes next

Brazil is next in the queue. After that, we're prioritizing by two things: how much real travel demand there is, and what we learned about which countries' government sites are actually reachable and current — some research passes go smoothly, some involve real detective work, and we'd rather tell you that honestly than pretend every country is equally easy to verify.

See the full source list for exactly what backs every claim on the site, or the verification changelog for the complete, dated history of what changed and when.