How we verify
Visa rules change constantly and without notice. A page that was accurate in March can be wrong by July. So every page here carries a verification date and a link to the official source it was checked against.
What the date means
"Last verified: 29 July 2026" means a human opened the official government source on that date and confirmed the figures on the page still matched. It does not mean the page was written that day, and it does not mean the rules haven't changed since.
If a date looks old to you, treat the page with suspicion and check the official source we link. We would rather show you a stale date honestly than hide it.
The review cycle
| Frequency | What happens |
|---|---|
| Weekly | The highest-traffic pages are re-checked against their official sources. |
| Weekly | We scan for announced rule changes and publish updates within 72 hours. |
| Every 90 days | Every page older than its review interval is re-verified in full. |
| Quarterly | Source links are re-tested and dead ones replaced. |
What we check against
Primary government sources only — immigration ministries, consular portals, tax authorities. Where a figure is indexed to something else, such as Spain's income threshold being 200% of the minimum wage, we record the mechanism and not just the number, because the number moves.
We do not treat other visa websites as sources. Where secondary sources disagree and we cannot resolve it against a primary source, we say so on the page rather than picking whichever figure looks most confident.
What we don't do
- We don't sell visa services. Nothing here routes you to an application we profit from, which means we can tell you when the free official route is the better one.
- We don't give legal advice. These pages are a reference. Immigration decisions are always at the discretion of the deciding authority.
- We don't invent experience. Where a page describes what a process is actually like, it is either first-hand or attributed to someone who did it. It is never imagined.
When we get it wrong
We will. Rules change faster than any review cycle catches, and sources contradict each other. When a page is wrong we correct it and log the correction — see our corrections page.
If you find an error, tell us at info@visadecision.com. Reader reports are the fastest way we learn a rule has changed.
Why there are no bylines
Articles are published by Visa Decision rather than under individual names. That is deliberate. On a reference site the thing worth trusting is the citation, not the author — and a citation you can check in under a minute is a stronger guarantee than a biography you cannot.
Where a page describes what an application is like in practice, that account comes from someone who made it and is labelled as contributed. We do not write first-hand accounts of processes nobody here has been through.