The short answer
Entry rules depend on your passport, the purpose of your trip and the rules at the time, so only the destination’s own checker can tell you what applies to you. Each country publishes one. StudentFlow does not say whether you will need or get a visa or an authorisation, and nobody else should promise it either. Use the official tool for every country on your trip, note the date you used it, and keep bookings changeable until you know.
Key terms in plain English
- Visa: permission to enter, usually applied for before you travel.
- Electronic authorisation: a lighter permission some countries use for certain passports, applied for online.
- Visa-check tool: the government’s own questionnaire about your passport and your reason for travel.
- Purpose of visit: what you will do there, such as tourism or seeing friends. Pages list what a visit can include.
The official tools
- United Kingdom: Check if you need a UK visa, then Visit the UK as a Standard Visitor.
- Canada: Check if you need a visa or eTA, then Visitor visa or eTA as the tool says.
- Australia: Visa Finder, then Visitor visa (subclass 600).
- Germany and the Schengen area: Visa Navigator and visa requirements and exemptions.
How to use them well
- Answer the tool’s questions honestly and fully, then read the page it sends you to, from start to finish.
- Read what you cannot do as carefully as what you can.
- Note the date and the result, and save a copy in your vault.
- Do not rely on forums, friends or agents for facts. Use them for ideas.
- If you want help with an application, choose an adviser registered with the official regulator, and check their registration yourself.
Checklist
- To do: Open the official tool for every country on your trip
- To do: Use the passport you will actually travel on
- To do: Read the page the tool sends you to, to the end
- To do: Save the date, the result and the link
- To do: Keep flights and stays changeable until any visa or authorisation is in hand
- To do: Check each passport on a group booking
- To do: Ask the official website or a licensed adviser about anything unclear
Common mistakes
- Booking first and checking later. A refusal or a delay can strand a non-refundable booking.
- Trusting a screenshot from a forum. Rules change.
- Checking only the first country. Each stop has its own rules.
- Assuming an old trip tells you about this one. Check again.
- Paying someone who promises approval. Nobody can.
Things that change
Visa requirements, electronic authorisations and tools change, and new systems are introduced. A page that was right on your last trip may not be right now. Check the date on the official page.
Verify before you act
Use the tools above. For advice on your case, ask the official website or a licensed adviser, for example through Find an immigration adviser (GOV.UK).