Last year, the United Kingdom started enforcing its new entry and stay regulations, affecting millions of travelers worldwide. Prior to that, traveling from the United States to Britain meant little to no hassle upon arrival: with eGates open to U.S. passport holders, all you had to do was rock up at the U.K. border, scan …

Travel can be beautiful, but it can also be tedious with bureaucratic hurdles to clear. In what’s become the norm for many of the most worthwhile destinations to visit, yet another stunning country is preparing to introduce a new entry requirement. Yes, checking do’s and don’t’s before setting foot in another country is still a …

Only a month after they confirmed ‘officially’ a new Entry Travel Authorization system would be launched, requiring all Americans to request a digital permit before traveling, Sri Lanka has backtracked and effectively struck down the ETA. One of the trendiest destinations in Asia right now, it is a tropical island-nation with a diverse landscape made …

If you thought tighter travel rules were a thing of the past, and something you wouldn’t have to deal with again since the global health crisis, think again. This year, a number of countries rolled out new restrictions affecting U.S. passport holders. Known examples include United Kingdom, which introduced a mandatory pre-travel authorization applying to …

Since eVisas, ETAS, and stricter entry requirements became the norm, it’s been a considerably trickier world to navigate as an American traveler. That’s why we rolled out the new free-to-use, 1-minute Travel Off Path Entry Requirement Checker to make planning a trip abroad a lot easier for you, but we digress. Now, if you are …

Here we go again. Yet another major tourist destination is rolling out an Entry Travel Authorization, the much-dreaded digital permit requirement that is slowly but surely ending complete visa-free travel worldwide. Ask any American who’s been to the U.K., South Korea, or even Thailand recently. Now, it’s South Africa’s turn to jump on the bandwagon. …

After the United Kingdom, Thailand, and many more countries rolled out their ETAs, or Electronic Travel Authorizations, impacting millions of travelers, yet another popular destination is jumping on the bandwagon and making traveling a tad more bureaucratic than it should be. It seems ETAs, eVisas, entry permits, call it what you want, are truly the …