How we verify visa data.
Visa rules change without notice, and most of the internet keeps repeating the old ones. Here is exactly where our data comes from, how often it is checked, and what we do when it changes.
160
countries with deep coverage — full fees, timelines and document checklists
2,460
visa routes tracked, each with its official source URL on record
99%
of routes verified against their source within the last 6 months
1137
official pages monitored daily for changes
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Official sources first
Every visa product records the official government or embassy URL it was verified against, alongside a verification date and a confidence grade. News and aggregator sources are tracked separately and never override an official source.
02
Tiered coverage, stated plainly
Deep-coverage countries carry full route data — fees, processing times, document checklists, per-passport eligibility. Everywhere else we show availability per visa type, and where we don't know, the page says unknown rather than guessing.
03
Daily monitoring
A registry of monitored official pages is re-checked on a rolling daily schedule. When a page's content changes, the difference is flagged for review — nothing is applied to the dataset automatically.
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Human review of every change
Flagged changes become proposed patches that an operator approves or rejects, with the previous values kept as an audit trail. Accepted policy changes are published to the public changelog.
What we don't promise
Verified data describes typical eligibility at the time of checking — it is not legal advice, and it is never a promise of a visa. Embassies and border officers decide every application on its own facts. No approval guarantees — official decisions prevail.
See every verified change as it happens on the policy changelog — also available as RSS.