Open data: visa fees and appointment waits
The facts on our pages are free to use as open data under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Please credit PrepareMyVisa and link to this page.
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How the data is made
- Every value comes from a government or visa centre page, linked from the page that uses it.
- One person reads the source and records the value. A second person checks it before it goes live.
- Appointment readings are typed in by our staff during their normal booking work. We never use bots or automated tools on booking systems.
- A row appears only for a page that passes our publishing rules today.
- Each row shows the oldest date on which any of its values was checked.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Columns
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
fact_sheet | The page the row comes from, as its address under /visas |
destination | Destination |
residence | Country of residence (two-letter code), for pages by residence |
nationality | Passport (two-letter code), for pages by passport |
visa_type | Visa type |
government_fee | Government fee, in the government's currency |
government_fee_currency | Currency of the government fee |
service_fee | Our service fee, when we offer a service for this page |
service_fee_currency | Currency of our service fee |
official_processing_time | Official processing time, in the government's words |
validity | How long the visa is valid |
where_to_apply | Who takes the application, and in which cities |
official_url | The government or operator page for applying |
last_verified | Oldest date on which any value in the row was checked |
reviewers | The people who checked the values |
city | City of the visa centre |
operator | Who runs the centre |
earliest_slot_seen | Earliest appointment our staff saw |
checked_at | When it was seen |
median_wait_days_30d | Median days from a check to the earliest appointment, over 30 days |
sample_size_30d | Number of checks in the last 30 days |