Our sources

Who publishes our sources?

We use official pages only:

• the destination government and its ministries
• its embassies and consulates
• the European Union
• the visa centre operator the government contracts to take applications

We never use another visa service, an aggregator, a news site or a blog as a source.

We are a private company, not a government, embassy, consulate or visa centre. The links below take you to the government's own pages, where you can apply directly and pay only the official fee.

How do we read a source?

A person opens each page in a normal browser and reads it. They record the fact, the link and the date read. A different person checks the fact before it goes live.

We never read facts from booking or application systems, and we never use bots on them. Appointment readings are different: our staff type in the earliest appointment they see while booking for customers, by hand.

How often do we read them again?

Each source has an expected rate of change, and that sets how often we read it again. Fees, processing times and document lists are read at least every month. We also watch our source pages and read them again when they change. If a fact has not been checked for 45 days, its page says the facts are being re-checked.

Where can you see what changed?

Every change to a fact on a published page is listed on our changes page, with the date, the official source and what we changed. You can download our facts as open data.

Is a source missing or wrong?

If an official page has changed, or you know a better official source, tell us. We read it and update our pages and this list.

What is in the list below?

The list below shows every source our published pages use: who publishes it, the facts it supports and the date we last read it. A source appears only once a named person has read it and a second person has checked the fact.