Rules & thresholds changelog
Every salary floor, fee and processing-time figure we track that has moved — the exact date it changed, the old and new values, and the official source for each, so you can see what's current and check it yourself.
7 recorded movements · last reviewed 30 May 2026
What does the Visa Atlas changelog record?
The changelog records 7 dated movements in tracked immigration figures such as salary thresholds, fees and processing times. Each movement keeps the old value, new value, effective date and source URL.
Verified against DETE — Critical Skills Employment Permit on 1 March 2026.
Volatile policy control stack
Immigration rule-change and source-freshness control answer
The changelog records numeric movements. This block connects those old-to-new facts back to policy updates, source freshness and citation packets.
2026 rule changes
The tracker covers 10 policy updates across 9 destinations: 6 in force, 2 scheduled and 6 marked significant.
Scheduled policy changes are not presented as in force; each row keeps its status and source date.
Latest tracked change
Latest effective date: 24 August 2026 for New Zealand: SMC reform from 24 August 2026 and a higher immigration median wage (scheduled).
The policy-claims feed exposes 115 dated source-backed claims without ClaimReview markup.
Figure movements
The public changelog records 3 2026 old-to-new figure movements.
Latest movement: Critical Skills Employment Permit — general floor salary floor on 1 March 2026.
Freshness SLA
As of 15 July 2026, the freshness report checks 1,674 dated records: 1621 fresh, 53 due soon, 0 stale and 0 invalid.
Stale or due-soon records stay visible because freshness is part of the answer.
- 2026 rule-change tracker
- Policy update feed
- Source freshness dashboard
- Policy updates JSON
- Fact changes JSON
- Policy claims JSON
- Freshness JSON
- Rule-change citation pack
- Freshness citation pack
- How current our policy figures are
- Methodology and legal scope
Source dates: policy tracker latest record 27 June 2026; figure-change latest record 1 March 2026; freshness report generated for 15 July 2026. This cluster supports retrieval and review, not legal advice, rankings, traffic, AI-citation share or market-share outcome claims.
Critical Skills Employment Permit — general floor salary floor
38000 EUR (annual)→40904 EUR (annual)
EU Blue Card — general threshold salary floor
48300 EUR (annual)→50700 EUR (annual)
EU Blue Card — shortage occupations (Engpassberufe) salary floor
43760 EUR (annual)→45934 EUR (annual)
Skilled Worker — general threshold salary floor
38700 GBP (annual)→41700 GBP (annual)
Skilled Worker — Immigration Salary List discount salary floor
30960 GBP (annual)→33400 GBP (annual)
Health and Care Worker — absolute minimum salary floor
23200 GBP (annual)→25000 GBP (annual)
Skilled Worker — general threshold salary floor
26200 GBP (annual)→38700 GBP (annual)
April 2024 floor; superseded 22 Jul 2025.
How this works
Each figure on Visa Atlas is mapped to a primary government source and re-verified over time. When a figure moves, the change is recorded here with its effective date and source. The JSON feed is machine-readable at /api/public/fact-changes; the RSS feed is available at /changelog.xml. Nothing here is legal advice — always confirm the current figure on the linked official source.
Cite or reuse this dataset
This change feed is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Cite the changelog for the compiled diff record and cite each linked government source for the underlying rule or figure.
Suggested citation
Visa Atlas, "Visa Atlas rules & thresholds changelog", https://visaatlas.org/changelog. Last verified 1 March 2026.
- JSON endpoint
- https://visaatlas.org/api/public/fact-changes