How we make sure we're right
You're not shopping for shoes. A wrong answer here can cost a family its savings, a year of someone's life, or a chance that doesn't come around twice. So before any number reaches you, it has to survive a process built around one question: could this hurt someone if it's wrong?
What happens before you see anything
We only listen to the government
Every fact starts on an official government page — never a blog, a forum, or an agency with a reason to tell you what you want to hear. If a country hasn't published it, we don't guess it.
We watch for changes, quietly
We check official pages regularly so a rule change doesn't sit undetected. If nothing has moved, we leave what you're reading alone — we're not reprocessing it just to look busy.
We read, we don't assume
When a page changes, we work through exactly what it says. If it's silent on something — a fee, a document, a deadline — we leave that blank rather than filling it in with a plausible guess.
A second, independent read tries to prove us wrong
Before anything is trusted, someone else — genuinely separate from the first read, not just a rerun of it — tries to find what's wrong with it. Two people looking the same way tend to miss the same things, so we make sure the second look comes from a different angle entirely.
Every fee is labelled honestly
Costs are broken down and marked clearly as either confirmed on the page or our best estimate. We never let an estimate quietly pass itself off as a fact, and we never do the maths by feel — a silent arithmetic slip is the most expensive kind of mistake.
Nothing goes live half-checked
Every single fact we publish has to trace back, word for word, to the sentence on the government page that says it — and that link is checked, not taken on faith. If even one fact can't be pinned down this way, the whole page waits for a person to look at it by hand. We'd rather show you nothing than something we can't stand behind.
Your result follows fixed rules, every time
Whether you qualify isn't a judgement call and it isn't improvised — it's worked out the same way for everyone, based only on the facts of your situation. Nothing about your result can be nudged, and nothing about it changes depending on who's asking.
Your plan is built backwards from your deadline
We start from the date you actually need to arrive by and work backwards, so if a timeline genuinely isn't possible, you hear that plainly and early — not halfway through, when it's too late to change course.
Plain language comes last, and it can't change the facts
Only once your result is final do we put it into plain English or French so it actually makes sense to you. That explanation can help you understand your result — it is never allowed to alter it.
How current is this, really?
Not everything about a visa rule changes at the same pace, so we don't treat it as if it does. A fee can move overnight; a hard eligibility rule barely moves at all. Each kind of fact has its own rhythm for how often we check it — and if something goes too long without a fresh confirmation, we'd rather flag it as ageing, or take it down entirely, than let you rely on it blind.
| Data | Checked | Re-verified by a person | Marked stale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fees and financial minimums | Every 24 hours | 30 days | 45 days |
| Quotas, intakes, draw results | Every 24 hours | 30 days | 30 days |
| Shortage occupation lists | Every 7 days | 60 days | 90 days |
| Hard eligibility rules | Every 7 days | 90 days | 120 days |
| Process steps and documents | Every 14 days | 90 days | 120 days |
What we won't do, even if you ask
- We won't give you legal advice, and we won't represent you in front of any authority. We're here to inform your decision, not to make it for you.
- We'll never tell you a route will definitely work, or imply it, even if the numbers look good — nobody can promise you that, and anyone who does is telling you what you want to hear.
- We won't sell a better spot in your results. No country, agency or partner can pay to be ranked higher for you — what you see is what actually fits your situation.
- It's tempting to just ask us directly, in chat, "will I get this visa?" — we understand why. But we won't answer that about your personal case. Doing so would be immigration advice, and giving it without being licensed could do you more harm than good.
- We only cover legal, official pathways — nothing that promises a shortcut around the rules.
What happens to your information
We only ask for what actually changes your result, your costs, or your plan — nothing collected just in case. Your profile is set up so that only you can read it, built into how the database itself works rather than resting on a promise we could quietly break. Anything you upload is scrambled before it's ever stored, and if you delete your account, the key that could unlock it disappears with it — permanently.