mledoze/visas

visa requirements in JSON.

PythonODbL-1.0

visas in JSON

A visa data progect

What do I do in this project?

I provide data about visa requirements for citizens of a different countries.
I provide geographical data according to the de facto, not de jure status of territory.
If you need geo data with de jure status, please use https://github.com/mledoze/countries
This is an apolitical project.

Where I can find the data?

Geo data is in data/geo/ folder
Visa data is in visa/geo/ folder
Countries data in data/info/countries.json
Compressed version of the data can be found in dist/ folder

Contribution:

Any kind of contribuion is welcome. Specially at kipping visa information up to date.

Visa types:

u - Customs union(e.g. Schengen Zone)
f - Visa not required
e - Electronic visa required(e.g. ESTA, ETA)
o - Visa getting obtained online
a - Visa on arrival
r - Visa required
d - Visa refused(e.g.Iran visa for citizens of Israel)

Building data:

Run tool.py build to build compressed version of all countries.
Run tool.py build --validate to validate your json and make it nicely aligned.

Modifying data:

Run tool.py visa add <cca2> <name> to add new visa.
Run tool.py visa set <visa_type> <from-cca2> (--cross | --requirement | --policy) <to-cca2>... to set visa requirement for country to country(s).
Run tool.py visa rm <cca2> to remove visa.

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