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Visa Requirements

Check visa rules between any passport and destination

OperationalCredits 5 per callp50 237msTransportation

Overview

Covers about 200 passports and up to 235 destinations each, including territories with their own entry rules such as Hong Kong, Puerto Rico and Greenland. Pass countries as ISO 3166 two-letter codes or English names. Requirements are normalized to six categories so they compare across countries, and the allowed stay is given both as days and as the original wording, e.g. 90 days within any 180-day period. Data is checked weekly. Entry rules change, and conditions such as passport validity, onward tickets or purpose of travel still apply, so confirm with the destination's official source before booking.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as VisaRequirements. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call
{
  "name": "VisaRequirements",
  "arguments": {
    "passport": "US",
    "destination": "JP"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about US in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for VisaRequirements on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

ArgumentTypeDescription
passportRequiredstringThe passport's country: a two-letter ISO code such as US, or an English name such as United States
length 0–60
destinationRequiredstringThe destination country or territory: a two-letter ISO code such as JP, or an English name such as Japan
length 0–60

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result
{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "passport": "US",
    "passportName": "United States",
    "destination": "JP",
    "destinationName": "Japan",
    "requirement": "visa_free",
    "requirementLabel": "Visa not required",
    "visaRequiredInAdvance": false,
    "allowedStayDays": 90,
    "allowedStay": "90 days",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-22T09:00:00.000Z"
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

FieldTypeExampleDescription
passportstringUSPassport country, ISO 3166 two-letter code
passportNamestringUnited StatesPassport country name
destinationstringJPDestination, ISO 3166 two-letter code
destinationNamestringJapanDestination name
requirementstringvisa_freevisa_free, eta, evisa, visa_on_arrival, visa_required, restricted or unknown
requirementLabelstringVisa not requiredReadable form of requirement, e.g. Visa not required
visaRequiredInAdvancebooleanfalseWhether a visa must be obtained before travel; null when entry is restricted or unknown
allowedStayDaysnumber90Allowed stay in days, or null when none is set or it is not a fixed number of days
allowedStaystring90 daysAllowed stay as stated, e.g. 90 days or 3 months
updatedAtstring2026-10-22T09:00:00.000ZWhen this passport's requirements last changed in the dataset (ISO 8601)

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

StatusWhat it means
400 / 422The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
401The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
403Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
404This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
429Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 5 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Travel Booking Checkout
Booking sites warn travelers at checkout when their passport needs a visa or eVisa for the destination, before they pay for a non-refundable fare.
Corporate Travel Approval
Travel management tools flag trips where an employee's nationality needs a visa arranged weeks in advance, so the request goes to the visa team first.
Trip Planning Apps
Itinerary apps show the allowed stay next to each stop so a multi-country route stays within the visa-free days.
Relocation and HR Tools
Mobility platforms compare how many destinations each candidate's passport reaches without an advance visa when planning client visits.

Other ways to use Visa Requirements

Set up Visa Requirements on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an x-api-key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerve →Reference →
Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.VerveSheets →Reference →
Ground an agent on itA cited, machine-checkable fact your model can't produce on its own.VerveContext →Reference →

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