Check how long you can stay in a country visa-free, after ChatGPT gave the wrong limit (failure)
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What went wrong: ChatGPT gave a six-month limit instead of three, and the poster overstayed by three months.
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Samantha Miasnik, a Kazakhstan citizen living in Armenia, asked ChatGPT how long they could stay. ChatGPT said six months; the limit was three, which Miasnik found out too late. By then they had overstayed by three months and had to plan a visa run to Georgia and back, with a risk of being refused re-entry because of the overstay.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Find out exactly how long I can stay in a country without a visa, from official sources. Fill in before running: - My citizenship and passport: [COUNTRY] - The country I'm in or going to: [COUNTRY] - When I entered and any previous stays: [DATES] This is not legal or immigration advice. Tell me which points the embassy, a border service or an immigration lawyer should confirm. Rules: - Answer only from the destination's official government or embassy pages, and link the exact page. - Say whether the limit is per entry or within a set period (such as 90 days in 180), and how previous stays count. - If official sources disagree or are unclear, say so and tell me to confirm with the embassy or border service. - Work out my last legal day and show the calculation. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: The stay limit with the official source, my last legal day, and what happens if I overstay. You'll know it worked when: I know my exact last legal day, confirmed by an official source.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Find out exactly how long I can stay in a country without a visa, from official sources. Fill in before running: - My citizenship and passport: [COUNTRY] - The country I'm in or going to: [COUNTRY] - When I entered and any previous stays: [DATES] This is not legal or immigration advice. Tell me which points the embassy, a border service or an immigration lawyer should confirm. Rules: - Answer only from the destination's official government or embassy pages, and link the exact page. - Say whether the limit is per entry or within a set period (such as 90 days in 180), and how previous stays count. - If official sources disagree or are unclear, say so and tell me to confirm with the embassy or border service. - Work out my last legal day and show the calculation. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: The stay limit with the official source, my last legal day, and what happens if I overstay. You'll know it worked when: I know my exact last legal day, confirmed by an official source.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Find out exactly how long I can stay in a country without a visa, from official sources. Fill in before running: - My citizenship and passport: [COUNTRY] - The country I'm in or going to: [COUNTRY] - When I entered and any previous stays: [DATES] This is not legal or immigration advice. Tell me which points the embassy, a border service or an immigration lawyer should confirm. Rules: - Answer only from the destination's official government or embassy pages, and link the exact page. - Say whether the limit is per entry or within a set period (such as 90 days in 180), and how previous stays count. - If official sources disagree or are unclear, say so and tell me to confirm with the embassy or border service. - Work out my last legal day and show the calculation. - Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Remind me to check the official source myself before I rely on the date, since rules change. Output: The stay limit with the official source, my last legal day, and what happens if I overstay. You'll know it worked when: I know my exact last legal day, confirmed by an official source. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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https://x.com/samanthamiasnik/status/2104995180965409120
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