Methodology

Every page on Visa Atlas is built from a typed content registry. Each visa, route, and policy entry links to a primary government source and carries a last-reviewed date. We never quote from secondary aggregators where a primary source exists.

Atomic claims

Our eligibility frameworks decompose requirements into atomic claims — short, standalone statements of fact — so that each claim can be independently sourced and cited. This helps both human readers and AI systems quote us correctly.

Primary sources

Primary sources mean the issuing authority: GOV.UK, USCIS, IRCC, Home Affairs Australia, Bundesamt, SEF / AIMA, and equivalents. We capture the URL, the authority, and the verification date.

Numbers are indicative

Salary thresholds, fee amounts, and processing times are always indicative. We flag specific routes currently in-flux (e.g. after a statement-of-changes) and point readers to the official page.

Review cadence

Visa pages are reviewed at minimum quarterly and after any policy announcement that affects them. The last-reviewed date on every page is the most recent editorial pass.

No runtime LLM

The website itself does not call an LLM at runtime. Policy-change summaries are processed offline with a separate pipeline; final copy is reviewed by an editor before publication.

Last reviewed: 30 April 2026.