How Toshiko verifies every visa fact
Visa requirements decide whether you can travel — getting one wrong is costly. So every fact on Toshiko is grounded in the official government source, quoted, dated, and re-checked. We never invent a requirement, and we never tell you that you don't need a visa unless the official source says so.
1 · Official sources only
Every requirement, fee, document and timeline is taken from a government domain (for example gov.uk, travel.state.gov, the issuing ministry of foreign affairs) or the government-appointed application channel (VFS Global, TLScontact, BLS and the official e-visa operators a state has named). We never cite a commercial visa agency, affiliate, blog or forum — and an automated build guard fails the site if any non-official source ever slips in.
2 · Grounded verbatim — not paraphrased
Each step and each document on a verified guide carries a direct quote from the official page it was taken from, with the source link and the date it was last checked. If a fact can't be backed by a quote from the official source, it doesn't ship — a guard blocks any ungrounded step or document from being published.
3 · Dated and re-checked
Every guide shows the date it was last verified. Official policies change — fees rise, rules shift — so we re-crawl the source pages and surface the freshest information, oldest-first. When you read a date on Toshiko, it means a person or our automated pipeline confirmed that fact against the official source on that day.
4 · “Verified” vs “guidance”
A verified guide (the ✓ pages) is a full, source-grounded, step-by-step plan for a specific nationality, residence and destination. A coverage-matrix page is rule-derived guidance — it tells you whether a visa is likely required and links you to the official source — and it is clearly labelled as guidance, not a verified plan. We never blur the two.
5 · What we don't do
- We don't fabricate requirements, fees, or processing times.
- We don't cite commercial visa-agency sites.
- We don't use unedited machine translation — localized pages are authored and reviewed.
- We don't replace the official source — every guide links you to it to confirm before you apply.