Resources
This library is deliberately small. It covers how to evaluate information and advisers, not what any particular country currently requires, which only the responsible authority can tell you.
In preparation
Published only when written and dated
- 01
Verifying who is authorised to advise you
How representation is regulated differently across jurisdictions, and how to check a public register before engaging anyone, including us.
- 02
Reading an official requirement at source
Why requirements should be read from the responsible authority's own publication, and how to tell a government source from a commercial one.
- 03
Warning signs in migration marketing
Guaranteed approvals, quoted success rates, pressure to pay quickly, requests for passports by email: what these signals mean.
- 04
Preparing documents without oversharing
Practical document preparation that does not require sending sensitive identity records to anyone who has not been engaged in writing.
Nothing is listed here as though it were already published. When an article is written it carries an author, a publication date and a review date, because material about immigration goes out of date quickly and undated guidance is unsafe to rely on.
Always read the rule at its source.
Requirements, fees, quotas, occupation lists and processing times are set and published by government authorities. Any private website, including this one, is a secondary source, and a secondary source can be stale, incomplete or simply wrong for your circumstances.
Find the authority responsible for the destination jurisdiction and read its own publication.
Check the date the page was last updated before relying on any figure.
Confirm anyone advising you appears on the relevant regulator's public register.
Treat a guaranteed outcome, a quoted success rate or urgency pressure as a reason to stop.