Editorial policy

How we check a guide

We start from the website, notice or form published by the office that runs the process. For each guide we record which sources we used and the date we checked them.

We don't fill gaps with guesses. If we can't confirm a fee, a processing time or an address, the guide marks it as not verified.

What “last verified” means

It's the date we last compared the guide with its official sources. It doesn't mean nothing has changed since. The older the date, the more important it is to open the official link before you go.

Forms and office details

Form pages describe each official form and link to the government's own file. We never host or change the form itself. In the Divisional Secretariat finder, an office marked “Not verified” hasn't been checked yet, so we link to its official page instead of showing details we can't vouch for.

Before and after publishing

A new guide is reviewed against its sources before it goes live. When a guide goes out of date, we take it off the site and out of our lists, and send its old address to a newer guide if there is one.

Reporting a mistake

Email us from the Contact page with the page address and what looks wrong. We check it against the official source, update the guide if needed and give it a new verification date.

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