How we find and check the rules

Sources

A rule is published only with evidence from an official source: the law, immigration authority, foreign ministry or embassy of the destination. Other visa sites, travel agencies, forums and airline summaries are never enough to publish a rule. Each piece of evidence is an exact quotation of the official page, shown on the destination page with the source and the date it was captured.

What is automated, and the human review step

We fetch the official pages with our own bot or a fetching service. A language model reads the captured page and proposes the rule in a fixed, structured form, with the exact sentence from the page behind each part of it. A human reviewer then checks every part against the quoted text and publishes it, corrects it or rejects it. Nothing is published without that review. Published rules carry the byline VisaPlane Editorial.

The destination pages, the lists and the trip checker apply the published rules with fixed code, not with a language model. A page may carry a short model-written summary only if every sentence in it states a fact from the published rules and a second, different model has confirmed it against the official quotes; a sentence that fails either check is removed. A page that carries such a summary says so beside it.

How often we check

Each destination's primary official source is scheduled to be fetched again daily, weekly or monthly, according to how often it changes. When the text of a source changes, the rules that rest on it are flagged for review, and the destination page says that the rule is under review and since when. The rule stays published until a reviewer decides.

What "captured" and "verified" mean

Captured is the date we fetched the official page a quotation comes from. A rule can be published only with evidence captured in the last 90 days.

Verified is the date a reviewer last confirmed the rule against the current official text. A page older than 90 days since verification shows its age, older than 120 days a stale badge, and older than 180 days a warning; from then on the page is also kept out of search indexes until it is verified again.

Where no official source confirms a rule, the page says: "We could not verify this on an official source." Where an official condition cannot be expressed in our structured form, the page says so and links to the official text instead of leaving the condition out.

When sources disagree

When two official sources disagree, the rule is held for review and the page shows that the sources disagree and since when. A reviewer decides which source governs; where the decision matters to a traveller, the page carries a note about it. A rule that turns out to be wrong is withdrawn at once and listed on the corrections page.

Privacy

Your detailed answers are stored temporarily in this browser tab and sent to our server to check the rules. We do not retain those detailed answers in server logs. Our server logs keep nationality, destination and purpose for 30 days.

If something fails on our side, an error report goes to Sentry, our error-tracking service. It says which part of the site failed and how, never what you entered, and Sentry keeps it for 30 days.

Disclaimer

We are not a government body and are not connected to any embassy, airline or border authority. Entry rules change, sometimes without notice, and the decision to let you board or enter is made by the airline and the border officer, not by this site. Use what we publish to find the official rule, then confirm it with the official source before you book or travel.