Frequently asked questions

No. Vibistic Passport is an independent information service. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any government or passport authority: see the note in every page's footer. It summarizes published official guidance and links to the real government site wherever a checklist step includes one.

No. Nothing on this site is legal advice or a substitute for it. It passes on publicly available government guidance without adding legal interpretation or recommendation, see Terms of Use for the full statement.

No. This site does not submit a passport application on your behalf, take a payment, collect or process a photo, or provide identity confirmation. Where a checklist step includes a direct link to the relevant government page or service (applying online, paying the fee) it's included; not every step needs one, and some steps (like gathering a photo, arranging a guarantor, or attending an interview) happen offline or with a third party, not on any website at all. This site only tells you what to expect and in what order.

See Supported countries for the live, always-current list: every real country/service combination with a sourced checklist today, each with its own freshness state and a link straight to the checklist. This page deliberately doesn't restate that list here, so it can't go stale.

Search for it on the home page. A recognized country that isn't supported yet shows a "Request this country" option, submitting it helps prioritize what gets built next. See Most-requested countries for the current ranking.

Every fact on a checklist (eligibility criteria, steps, document requirements, fee and timing, the application worksheet, glossary terms) is drawn from that country's own official government website, never invented. Each checklist page's "Published under" banner near the top names the licence and attribution covering that sourced content specifically (not this site's own added commentary, like freshness notes or "What changed" entries, those are Vibistic's, not the government's), and most sections show their own "Source: ..." link so you can verify any individual fact directly against the government's own page.

A background process re-checks every cited government page on a daily schedule, compares it against what was last seen, and records the result: this isn't triggered by your visit, and it doesn't happen instantly. When a checklist is confirmed current, its page shows a short line near the top stating when it was last checked, and (only if a confirmed change has ever actually happened) when it last changed. If a change is detected but hasn't been reviewed by a human yet, the line says so plainly instead, showing only the last-checked date, not a claim of false certainty; if a check couldn't complete, it says that too, with no dates at all. No freshness line is shown at all until a scenario's sources have been checked at least once: this site would rather show nothing than guess.

When there's change history for a scenario, a dated "What changed" section lists what was updated and why: tagged either "Official source update" (the government's own page genuinely changed) or "Vibistic clarification" (an editorial correction on this site's side, not a change to the underlying government guidance).

The Compare page lets you pick up to 4 supported country/service routes and see their published facts side by side: fee, earliest-you-can-apply and processing time, document requirement counts, and each route's own eligibility-criteria sections, plus freshness. These are the same sourced facts each route's own checklist page shows, arranged for side-by-side reading. Compare is a summary, not a replacement for the full checklist (steps, the application worksheet, and the glossary are only on the checklist page itself).

No, never. With JavaScript on, the picker shows routes in the order you added them; without it, the fallback form lists them in a fixed order instead: either way, they're never sorted or ranked by any fact. This site doesn't tell you which country or service is "better": only what's actually published for each, so you can read the same facts side by side and decide for yourself.

A fact row (fee, timing, document requirements) only appears when every route you're comparing has that fact published for it: if even one route is missing it, the whole row is left out entirely, never shown as a placeholder or a fabricated zero. A route missing a fact never drags a shared row down to a made-up value for everyone else.

Use the "Report a problem" link next to the specific step, document requirement, or fee/timing block on the checklist page. It opens a short form: pick what's wrong (broken link, outdated info, unclear wording, misclassified requirement) and optionally explain, then records the report and shows a confirmation with a link back to the page you reported from. There's no account and no reply; it doesn't change your own checklist, and a tampered or made-up link 404s rather than showing a form for content that doesn't exist.

No. There's no sign-up or login anywhere on this site.

Only your cookie-consent choice by default. If you accept cookies, this site can additionally remember, entirely client-side: which step and document checkboxes you've checked off, whether you're tracking more than one traveler and who's active, and which document requirements you've marked ready or not-applicable: see Privacy Policy for what's stored. You can revisit or change your choice any time at Cookie settings.

No. There's no advertising or analytics tracking on this site at all, and nothing is sold or shared with anyone.

It doesn't guarantee your application will be approved: no site can. It doesn't provide legal representation or act on your behalf with any government authority. It doesn't offer a photo service, notarization, or certified-translation service: where a document needs one of those, the checklist says so and points to the government's own page describing what's accepted. It doesn't take or process a payment on your behalf; every fee is paid directly to the government through its own official channel. It doesn't offer any expediting or priority-processing service beyond whatever the government itself publishes and offers directly.