Travel Visa's

We all know that you need your passport and your travel tickets before you depart on your holiday, but what about a visa.. What is a visa? Do I need one? and how do I get one?

If you are travelling to a place outside your home territories you may need to apply for an entry visa from the country's consulate or embassy. Some countries have websites with visa information - so, for example, the United States Embassy website has details of who needs a visa to travel to the US.

If you are a British dependent territories citizen, British overseas citizen, British subject, British national overseas or a British protected person you may need to apply for a visa even if British citizens do not.

For travel to the US, any traveller not covered by the 'VISA WAIVER PROGRAM' will need to arrange a visa via their local US Embassy prior to travel.

Certainly, for those in the West, travelling to Eastern countries such as Russia or China will require a visa. Make sure you find out all you can about applying for a visa well before your planned travel date. Criteria can change quickly, for instance, it became much more difficult to get a visa for China when there were active protests regarding the Olympic torch.
Always check with your own national Foreign Office and with the Embassy of the country to which you plan to travel.