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I feel there are some issues with the separation of the Schengen countries from other countries. Now the Schengen countries do not link to a visa policy article but to the country article, which I think is not very helpful. Moreover, several countries follow schengen policy by EU-law (bulgaria et al) and might be better suited there... Shall I try to i) rearrange and iia) non-link the Schengen countries or iib) link all schengen countries to the European Union visa lists page? L.tak (talk) 06:07, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
The above listed AfD indicates a growing consensus that the articles in this category are inaccurate. Basket of Puppies 19:27, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
I think that all of the List of passports and missing passports should be present in the template here (of course without the passport/citizenship-types that do not correspond to a particular territory - SMOM, British National (Overseas), British Subject, etc.)
I recently added Kosovo, but there are others missing. Alinor (talk) 14:39, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Visa policy of Saint Kitts and Nevis can be established with information from [1]. Alinor (talk) 11:37, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Visa policy of Zimbabwe can be established with information from [2]. Alinor (talk) 07:56, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
What kind of merger is proposed? Merge the templates, or merge the articles too? If the latter, I can only suggest that we retain the "visa policy of country X" articles as these tend to be more complete and readily sourced, whereas the "visa policy for nationals of country X" articles tend to be less complete and suffer from a many-to-many map of sources (the latter problem causes the former). bobrayner (talk) 16:05, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
I have made a fairly major change, so I'll explain my reasoning. If anyone wants to revert, thats OK. I'm happy to discuss it.
My initial motivation was to remove the hidden links e.g. "Aruba" was a link to Visa policy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean, "Germany" and many others linked to Visa policy in the European Union#Visa requirements for the Schengen Area, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Liechtenstein and Romania, and "Honduras" and three others were a link to Central America-4 Border Control Agreement. Hidden links are confusing.
I dont know whether the Dutch Carrabian has any differences in visa policy, so I have unlinked them. I have raised the question at Talk:Visa policy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean#When did the standardisation happen.
The EU/Schengen Area countries all share a (mostly) similar visa policy now, however there are three reasons for each member state to have its own page
a) while the EU/Schengen Area rules are extremely detailed, they do not regulate everything. Each member state is allowed to have impose additional visa requirements within some strict exceptions (e.g. airport transit visa requirements for nationals of other countries in urgent cases of mass influx of illegal immigrants), and the treaty does not cover all types of visas (e.g. diplomatic and official visas are not included). Family/spouse visas are still required in some circumstances.
b) the history of visa policy for each member state does not fit within the scope of the article Visa policy in the European Union, which is already long and complicated.
c) policy is a much broader topic than the treaties, laws and regulations that are in place. A member state could maintain compliance with the Schengen Area rules while still making transit more difficult or more simple using other means. e.g. the efficiency in processing (e.g. visa approvals) is a policy aspect; a member nation can make it difficult to obtain a visa by via other means, or may even 'not' comply with certain parts of the agreement at all (see Schengen Area#Controversies).
The other change is for the United States, which previously linked to United States visas instead of a "Visa policy .." article. I think the visa policy series of article should have policy articles, and United States visas is merely a description of the visas. The US more than most countries uses policy rather than law to refuse entry, and that needs a separate article. Also, I have removed the US Visa Waiver Program from the template, as it was the only instance of directly linking to a specific program that is not transnational. John Vandenberg (chat) 11:48, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
Why are the entries in this template grouped by region? It seems to me that a user would come to this template with a particular country in mind, not a region (with the possible exception of the EU/Schengen area), so a simple alphabetical listing would be more helpful. Colonies Chris (talk) 10:38, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Shall Mount Athos be cited in this template? It is an autonomous special Greek region which has been settled by Greece adhesion to EU. It has a sort of government and requires a Diamonitirion[1] which can be seen as an entry permit (refused to women and young toddlers). --Bouzinac (talk) 17:15, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
This website, which is kind of official, says that a Shengen visa is not valid, and even residents of Shengen country (unless they are visa-free) need to get a special Faroese visa. I am sure Greenland has similar requirements, but have not time to search for now, can do it later if needed. I tried Timatik, but it does not seem to provide any info on Faroe Islands.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:08, 21 July 2017 (UTC)