Changelog

1.5.0 2026-09-15

• The site has been redesigned. The passport checker now sits in the first screen of the home page: pick your passport and the answer — no visa, conditional, or visa required — appears before any article does.
• The menu is now three groups that follow the trip: getting in, on the ground, plan your trip. The pages written for a specific nationality (Japan, Taiwan, Russia, Thailand, the US and the UK) are linked directly from the first of them instead of sitting two clicks down, and a "check my passport" button stays on screen on every page.
• The date these entry rules were last re-verified against the immigration authority now appears in the first screen, not only in the footer. It is the same date the checker and every nationality page work from.
• On a phone, the three-scheme comparison stacks into one card per scheme instead of scrolling sideways, wide tables keep their first column pinned and say how many columns are hidden, and long pages open with a contents list.

1.4.2 2026-09-15

Maintenance only — nothing a reader would notice.

1.4.1 2026-09-15

Maintenance only — nothing a reader would notice.

1.4.0 2026-09-14

• New: a page per nationality under /visa-free/ — Japan, Taiwan, Russia, Thailand, the United States and the United Kingdom — each answering the question in the words people actually ask it, in their own language.
• Every one of those pages leads with the date your route expires. China’s 30-day visa-free scheme runs out on 31 December 2026 and, as of today, no extension has been announced. Russia is authorised a year longer; Thailand’s exemption is a treaty and does not expire at all.
• Re-verified the entry rules against the immigration authority and the foreign ministry: the 50-country visa-free list, the 57-country / 65-port / 24-province transit scheme and the China–Thailand treaty terms all check out unchanged.

1.3.0 2026-09-11

• The arrival-card pages now answer the three questions people actually arrive with — what the card is, how early you can file it, and (in Traditional Chinese) whether a Taiwan travel permit means you file it at all — before showing you any tools.
• Added a plain answer to why other guides claim a 24- or 72-hour filing window. The official form accepted arrival dates three months out when we last checked it.
• Subscribing is more robust: your address is kept the moment you submit it, and a typo is now reported as a typo instead of a server error.
• Pages that do not exist now say so, instead of quietly showing the home page.

1.2.1 2026-09-07

Maintenance only — nothing a reader would notice.

1.2.0 2026-08-31

• The arrival-card guide — practice form, address helper and timing tool — is now available in all five languages.
• Added email updates: one address, no other fields, and mail only when the rules actually change.

1.1.0 2026-08-31

• New: /arrival-card/ — rehearse China’s online arrival card field by field, check a hotel address against the format the form wants, and find out how early you can file. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

1.0.0 2026-08-26

• Launch: visa-free eligibility checker, 240-hour transit, payments, connectivity, transport and a pre-departure checklist, in English, Traditional Chinese and Russian — later joined by Japanese and Thai.
• Every page carries the date its facts were last verified against government sources.