Source policy

Source hierarchy

1. Primary law and gazette notifications of the destination state.
2. The destination authority's official portal (immigration ministry, ICA/ICP, e-visa system).
3. Embassy and consular notices for the traveller's jurisdiction (for our scope: Embassy of the destination in India).
4. IATA Timatic, as a cross-check — never as a primary source.
5. Named airline visa-desk pages, only for sponsor-channel fees, marked as such.

We do not cite aggregator blogs, resellers or social posts as evidence for any published value. Where a copycat site mimics a free official service, the country record says so.

Update cadence

Every record has a next review date: quarterly for verified records, within 30 days for reviewed ones. Policy-monitor entries (the change log) are checked weekly, and the checker warns the moment a record ages past its review window.

Conflicts

When sources conflict, the record takes the highest authority and records the conflict in the source ledger. If the conflict cannot be resolved from official text, the record drops to verification required and displays the warning on every surface, including the checker.

Citation format

Each value links to the owning authority, with jurisdiction, checked date and reviewer shown in the record's ledger block. Snapshots of cited pages are retained internally for audit.