[sushantsharma]

I'm snickering at this: I've found that we Americans have a really easy time getting whatever visas we want whenever we want. Some nations will issue a month (or longer) visa just from the airline informing them, "we have an American on board this flight".

Can you please tell us the name of one nation out of those? In my understanding, the Visa rules followed by country X in issuing Visa to US citizens is similar to the rules followed by US while issuing Visa to citizens of country X.

E.g., if US issues 10 year visitor visas to Indians, then India also issues 10 year visitor via to Americans. I haven't done extensive research on this so this may not hold in some instances.

[jessaustin]

Off the top of my head, I think it was New Zealand that had that airline notification thing, and I think that got you a 90 day business visa. That was ten years ago, and I lived in Singapore at the time, so perhaps I'm misremembering or they've changed the policy since then.

I think in general the reciprocity policy you mention is a good rule of thumb, although I'm sure there are exceptions.

[FireBeyond]

You are perhaps thinking of the Visa Waiver Program (http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html), though that is specifically NOT for business purposes.