If you are from India with a dream to travel the world then it's not quite easy. There are many visa related hurdles that you will need to cross. Over the past few days I've been building an excel based simple travel planner and tracker and one of the first things I've had to do was figure out the current visa requirements for Indians.
Interestingly Wikipedia comes to the rescue as it has a ton of information but that information needs to be cross verified also. I'll tell you why. You can find that the semi-current info on visa requirements for Indians on wiki here.
Now bear in mind that visa requirements for any passport keeps changing overtime and it's hard to keep track. But there are few areas where one needs to use some common sense.
For example the link states that Indians need Visa for Czech Republic and Denmark amongst other countries. However, you can enter these countries with a valid Schengen visa. I have been to these places infact and have traveled without issues.
With a valid multi-entry Schengen and US visa one can travel several other countries than the ones that directly give Visa free or visa on arrival status to Indian passport holders.
So in my excel sheet I'm currently mapping all these things as per current rules and tracking the countries I've traveled in the past. So far I've traveled 23 countries including India. It's including India because I have traveled my country very extensively in the past 15-16 years.
I'm now planning my next 10 countries or so and figuring out the costs and the logistics and interesting the more info I add to a list I'm creating the easier it seems to plan this now.
I'll share the data at a later stage when I feel I have compiled sufficient information. For now if you are planning to travel abroad to exotic or far away locations from India then the wiki link + Passport Index comparison is a good place to start planning your visa requirements.
I've traveled the following countries. It is listed in the order starting with the first country I've traveled about to the most recent one.
- India
- United States of America
- Indonesia
- Netherlands
- Austria
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Spain
- Singapore
- Malaysia
- Portugal
- Sri Lanka
- Hungary
- Croatia
- Slovenia
- Italy
- Vatican City
- France
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
Visa requirements for some countries such as Singapore or Malaysia is very simple. They don't ask for much at all. USA / EU nations can be complicated.
However, I've never needed to furnish any documents for US visa during the interview while for my Schengen visa I've submitted a ton of information. So it varies from countries to countries and one need to do some due diligence to get things right.
In case of Sri Lanka, I just booked my flight 2 nights before I landed there as I got a good deal on the flight. Didn't even bother with any paperwork. It was that easy.
It's my dream to travel atleast 100 countries before the age of 40. I've got 9 years to complete that. Hence, I'm realistically trying to figure out how to actually do it and plan a bit ahead of time.
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