For journalists and editors
Edited by Ben Bleier, Founder.
Visa Atlas is a free, independent publication about global immigration routes — government fees, salary thresholds, processing times and the path to permanent residence across 100+ destinations, each figure linked to its official government source and carrying a last-reviewed date. If you are writing about visas or immigration, this page explains how to cite us, what is free to reuse, and where to reach us.
Ben Bleier, Visa Atlas’s founder, has moved countries himself and navigated citizenship first-hand.
How to cite us
Attribute the compiled, dated figure to Visa Atlas and link the specific page you used. Where a figure comes from a government rule, cite that official source too — every page links it. A citation line looks like this:
Suggested attribution
Source: Visa Atlas (visaatlas.org), [dataset], reviewed [date].
For example: “Source: Visa Atlas (visaatlas.org), UK Skilled Worker fee breakdown, reviewed 6 July 2026.”
Licence
The content and figures on this site are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. You are free to share and adapt the material, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit and link back. Full terms are on the use our data page.
Datasets and machine-readable feeds
The same records that power the pages are published as open datasets and citation-ready summaries. For a story, these are usually the fastest way to quote exact figures with a stable source and date:
- Citation packs — ready-to-quote figures with source and review date.
- Answer capsules — short, self-contained answers to common questions.
- Research — original analyses, indices and trackers with methods.
- Open data catalogue and API reference — the underlying JSON datasets with schema.org metadata.
- Change log — dated old→new movements for fees, salary thresholds and processing windows, with an RSS feed for newsroom monitoring.
How the figures are made
Every visa, fee, salary threshold and policy entry is built from a typed content registry, linked to a primary government source, and carries a last-reviewed date. We never quote a secondary aggregator where a primary source exists. Our full methodology, editorial standards and corrections policy set out the controls. Visa Atlas is an encyclopaedia, not an adviser, and does not give legal advice.
Contact
For corrections, data questions, or to check a figure before you publish, email corrections@visaatlas.org. We aim to respond quickly to newsroom queries.
Last reviewed: 6 July 2026.