25 Destinations Verified — Including One Where We Found Nothing to Confirm

Five more destinations verified — Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Singapore, and South Korea — brings Trip Check to 25 destinations covered, plus the Schengen Area. This batch had the widest range of "same word, different rule" surprises yet, and one case where the honest answer was that we couldn't confirm the number everyone else publishes.

Brazil brought back its visa requirement — for three nationalities, not all of them

Effective 10 April 2025, Brazil reinstated visa requirements for US, Canadian, and Australian citizens, ending the waiver those nationalities had held since 2019. It's explicitly reciprocal: the US requires visas from Brazilian citizens, so Brazil now requires one back. UK citizens weren't touched by this — their reciprocal waiver stayed in place, still good for 90 days per entry, extendable once, capped at 180 days total in any 12-month period.

Singapore doesn't publish the number everyone quotes

This is the one we're proudest of, in a way that isn't flattering to the rest of the travel-info industry. "US citizens get 90 days visa-free in Singapore" is repeated everywhere online. We went looking for the government document that actually says so. There isn't one. Singapore's own ICA and its embassy in Washington both confirm US passport holders don't need a visa — but the length of stay is set by the immigration officer at entry, with no published per-nationality table. We re-checked specifically because this figure mattered enough to double back on (2026-09-10). We're publishing "not fixed — set at entry," not the 90 days everyone else copies, because that's what the source actually supports. Canadians, by contrast, get an explicit government-confirmed 30 days: "Tourist visa: not required for stays of up to 30 days."

Saudi Arabia's e-visa comes with insurance already included

The tourist e-visa — 1-year validity, multiple entry, up to 90 days per visit within a rolling 365-day window — bundles mandatory travel health insurance automatically, up to SAR 100,000 of coverage, into the visa itself. You're not buying it separately; it's priced into the application.

Indonesia's visa-on-arrival has a hard ceiling

30 days initial stay, one extension of 30 more days at a local immigration office (60 days total), and that's it — it cannot be converted into a different stay permit. IDR 500,000, payable on arrival or prepaid online through the eVOA portal.

South Korea's biggest exemption has a deadline before the year is out

K-ETA, Korea's electronic travel authorization, has been temporarily waived for a long list of nationalities — including the US, UK, and Canada — since April 2023. We confirmed independently, via each government's own travel advisory, that the current waiver runs through 31 December 2026. After that, K-ETA becomes mandatory again unless the exemption is extended a second time. Canadians also get a longer standard stay than most: 180 days, versus 90 for most other nationalities, under a separate reciprocal agreement.

25 destinations in, the rule hasn't changed

Every fact above traces to a primary source, dated, cited on the relevant destination page. When we couldn't confirm something — like Singapore's stay length — we published that instead of a guess. See the full source list for exactly what backs every claim on the site, or the verification changelog for the dated history of what changed and when.