alt Hacker News> A lot of this faff isn't relevant if you're not applying for any visas or citizenship. Which is most people, most of the time.
That’s true for many, but my passport isn’t very strong, so I still have to deal with a lot of paperwork for most transits.
If your job is travel, like you are an international truck driver or maybe aircrew, these kinds of things might affect you a lot sometimes.
There's probably special rules for those people in some places, which makes the situation even more complicated.