How we write, and how you can check us.
A guide about visas is only useful if you can tell where each fact came from and when it was last true. These are the rules we hold the guides to.
Who writes
Every guide is written by the Velai editorial team, as an organisation. We do not publish under invented names or stock portraits. A guide names the role that reviewed it. A reviewer is named only with their consent.
How we write
We start from the official source and write down what it says before we add anything of our own. Every figure in a guide links to the source and shows the date we read it. Where the rules leave room for interpretation, we say so and name who decides.
How we review
A Velai account manager who works on these cases reads each guide before it is published. German guides are also read by a native German speaker. A guide shows when it was last verified, and that date changes only when we have checked it again.
Corrections
If a figure or a rule is wrong, we correct the guide and say what changed and when, at the top of the page. We do not move a date to make a guide look newer. To report an error, write to the address on our contact page.
What our guides are not
They are not legal advice and not a decision by any authority. They do not quote fees or promise outcomes. If your case is unusual, the authority that handles it, or a qualified adviser, has the last word.