How we verify what is on this site
Most visa content on the internet is a copy of a copy. Somebody read a rule in 2023, somebody else rewrote it in 2024, and by now nobody remembers where the number came from. This is the procedure we use so that does not happen here.
The procedure
A requirement is written down somewhere official, or it is not a requirement. We start at the ministry, the mission or the Immigration Bureau — never at another agency’s blog post, which is how the same error propagates across an entire industry.
The baseline is national; the document list is local. The same visa filed in two countries can need two different financial packages. So the country of application is checked separately, every time.
Official requirement, consulate practice, or our own standard. Each gets its own treatment on the page so you can tell at a glance whose rule you are reading.
Every page says when its facts were last checked. A visa page without a date is a page you cannot act on, because you have no way of knowing whether it describes this year or the one before.
When a mission asks for something new, or stops asking for something old, that goes back into the page. Casework is where a rule change shows up first — usually months before anyone publishes it.
The final list of documents is set by the specific mission you file at.
What the “verified on” date means
It means that on that date a person opened the official source and compared it to the page. It does not mean the rule cannot have changed the following morning — Thai visa rules change often, and sometimes without an announcement.
So treat the date as what it is: a statement about when we looked, not a guarantee about today. If your filing date is far from ours, ask us before you build a plan around a number on this page.
When sources disagree
The mission wins for that country, because that is where your file is judged. We say which mission the requirement belongs to.
It does not go on the page as fact. Forum reports are useful for spotting that something has changed — they are not evidence of what the rule is.
Expired promotional pricing is one of the most common stale facts in this industry. If we cannot confirm a current figure, we say “confirm the current price” instead of printing an old one.
It stays off the site. An empty section is honest; a plausible-looking invented one is not.
Who writes and who checks
Every visa page carries an author and a reviewer. On a subject where a mistake costs money, an unsigned page is a page nobody is answerable for.
Names, roles and experience will appear here and on every visa page. Until they do, the author cards say so rather than showing an invented name.
The rule behind all of this
The procedure on this page exists to serve one rule: never present our own practice as somebody else’s law. That rule, and the sentences it forbids us from writing, are set out in full on the editorial policy page.