July saw some big changes in global travel rules - but TravelDoc has them covered
Immigration, health, and customs regulations are constantly changing. It’s a struggle to keep up and mistakes can lead to operational inefficiencies and heavy fines.
Passengers and front-line teams regularly contend with delays, confusion and frustration on both sides of the counter. There’s a need for clear, real-time, multilingual guidance you can trust.
TravelDoc is an automated document check system that enables accurate checking and understanding of travel rules for every single destination. Our dedicated team of travel rule experts work tirelessly every day to ensure TravelDoc is updated with the latest regulations from the most reliable of sources.
Here are some highlights of July's immigration rule changes now live within the TravelDoc database and helping enable international travel:
Nationals of Australia, New Zealand, The United States, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have had the length of time they can obtain a visa on arrival in Laos extended from 30 days to 60 days.
Nationals of Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Spain, and Greece can now enter Laos without a visa for up to 15 days.
A visa is not required for passengers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan travelling to Laos for 15 days, provided they are travelling as part of tourist group run by a tour guide approved by the Lao Ministry of Education and Culture.
Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago now have a mutual visa waiver agreement.
Nationals of the United Kingdom now must apply for a visa to travel to Honduras.
Jamaica has a new URL passengers must submit their Electronic Immigration/Customs Declaration (C5) Form on: https://enterjamaica.gov.jm/
Venezuela has suspended all flights arriving from and departing to Panama and the Domincan Republic.
Nationals of Botswana and South Africa now require a visa to enter or transit Ireland, unless they hold proof from their carrier that they booked their travel to Ireland prior to 10th July 2024.
Nationals of Bangladesh are not permitted to enter or exit India through Bhubaneswar Biju Patnaik Airport (BBI).
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Written by Harry Owen, Product Solutions Manager, ICTS Europe Systems
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