How much of this site is actually verified right now?
The Last Verified system only means something if we show our work — including when the work isn't done yet. Here's the real, current count, not a rounded-up one.
Current counts
- 151 visa records (30 countries), 106 city cost-of-living records (53 cities), 26 comparison/review pages, 35 relocation records, 7 nationality records, 27 career/tax/security guides, and 4 occupation spotlights — 356 content pages in total under the verification system.
- Every single one of those 356 pages has now completed a full verification pass with a real confirmed date. Zero pages on this site currently carry a "Pending verification" stamp. That includes correcting several things along the way that turned out to be wrong, not just unconfirmed — a visa comparison that had the wrong relationship between two countries' income thresholds, a page whose own title overstated a "lower bar" that didn't actually exist, a retirement visa's validity period that had been confused with a different, similarly-named program, and — caught only after an outside check, not by our own process — two comparison pages whose data rows were genuinely verified but whose Verdict row still held leftover template placeholder text. Both are now fixed, and a full sweep confirmed no other page has the same problem.
Why we're publishing this instead of hiding it
Most sites either fabricate a "last updated" date that nobody checks, or quietly rely on the assumption that content is trustworthy just because it's live. Neither is honest. The alternative wasn't waiting until every figure was confirmed before publishing anything — it was building the full structure first, flagging exactly what was unconfirmed, and closing that gap systematically and visibly instead of pretending it was already closed. That gap is now fully closed.
What happens next
Nothing on this page is pending anymore — but "verified" isn't a permanent state. Every page carries the date it was last checked, and pages will move back to a re-verification queue as they age past 90 days or as their underlying rules change (a visa income threshold that adjusts with inflation, a tax rate a country revises, a program that gets restructured). The discipline that got every page here once is the same discipline that keeps it here: nothing gets re-marked as current without being re-checked against a real source first.
What "verified" actually means here
A record counts as verified when its key figures have been checked directly against an official source — a government immigration portal, an insurer's own policy documents, a bank's published fee schedule — not against another blog, a forum post, or a general reputation. See the full Editorial Policy for the sourcing standard itself.