Where can you actually go?
Most travel sites tell you what a flight costs. Almost none tell you whether you are allowed to board it.
The Gulf is mostly expatriate. For millions of people living here — on an Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Egyptian, Filipino or Jordanian passport — a residence permit opens doors the passport alone does not. Georgia will admit you on your Iqama. Azerbaijan will hand you a visa at the airport if you live in the UAE.
That information exists, but it is buried in ordinances, embassy pages and footnotes, and it changes. So people ask in group chats, get half-answers, and either miss trips they could have taken or turn up at a border they cannot cross. Wajhaa exists to answer that one question properly.
How it works
Two layers. A baseline covering every passport and destination, built from an open dataset. Over it, a hand-curated set of residency exceptions — the footnotes the baseline flattens away — each read from the governing instrument itself rather than a summary.
Every result carries a confidence tier, and the tier is derived from which layer produced the answer. It is never assigned by hand. A residency exception can never be marked Confirmed, because it depends on conditions we cannot see: the validity of your permit, what you can show at the counter, and an officer's judgement.
What we will not do
We will not guess. Where there is no official government source for a destination, we say so and show nothing rather than repeat what an aggregator claims. That is why parts of the map read Not confirmed yet — those are honest gaps, not missing features.
Every answer links to the government's own page, never to whoever we read it from. The visible address is the point: you should be able to check us.
The only mistake here that can genuinely hurt someone is telling them they may travel when they may not. Everything is built to fail in the other direction — toward telling you to check when you did not have to.
Who is behind it
Wajhaa is an independent project, built and operated from the United Arab Emirates. It is early, and the coverage will have gaps. If you find something wrong — a rule that has changed, a link that has moved, a country we have misread — please tell us at founder@claritydatapartners.com. Corrections to eligibility data are the most useful mail we can get.