Wrong visa information causes real harm. Someone books a flight, gives notice on a job, or misses an age cut-off because of a number on a page. So we hold every visa fact to one rule: confirmed on the official government source, or not published. This page explains exactly how that works, who signs off, how often we re-check, and what happens when we get something wrong.
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A visa fact is only true on this site if it appears on the immigration authority’s own page. Visa agencies, comparison sites and blogs can point us to the right page, but they are never what we record as the source. We record the government URL, and that is the link you can click to check it yourself.
| Destination | Official source | Programs we verify against it |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | Department of Home Affairs (immi.homeaffairs.gov.au) | Working Holiday subclass 417, Work and Holiday subclass 462 |
| New Zealand | Immigration New Zealand (immigration.govt.nz) | Working Holiday Scheme (each nationality has its own scheme page) |
| United Kingdom | GOV.UK (gov.uk) | Youth Mobility Scheme |
| Canada | Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (canada.ca) | International Experience Canada, Working Holiday category |
We verify each nationality-to-destination route on its own. The same destination has different rules depending on the passport you hold, so a fact confirmed for one nationality is not assumed to hold for another. It is checked again.
Before any visa fact goes live, it has to pass four checks. All four, every time.
A visa fact is only published when:
If any one of these fails, the fact is held as “needs review” and does not publish. One wrong published fact is worse than a missing one.
When we cannot confirm a figure on an official page, we do not guess and we do not fill it from memory. We do one of two things: hold the specific claim until a person can confirm it, or keep the statement general and true without the unverified number. A correct general statement always beats a precise number we cannot stand behind.
Nothing on this site publishes itself. This is the rule that does not bend.
We use automation to watch for change, not to make it. A scheduled job re-reads each fact’s official source on its due date and compares it to what we have stored. If something looks different, it creates a draft and flags it for a person. It never edits the live page and it never publishes.
A person then opens the official source, confirms what actually changed, and decides: approve the update and publish, or reject it and keep the current value. Visa facts never auto-correct and never auto-publish. The human gate is permanent, by design. Automation can tell us where to look. It cannot decide what is true.
Not everything has a single official source. Visa rules do. Living costs often do not: rents, everyday prices, typical wages, the finer details of a bank’s new-arrival account. For those we use the most reputable current source we can find and we label it clearly.
Every fact on the site carries one of two confidence levels, and we show which:
You will always be able to tell which one you are reading. We never dress an estimate up as a government fact.
A fact that was right last year can be wrong today. Fees rise, minimum wages are reviewed, caps open and close, rules change. So every fact carries two dates: the date it was last confirmed, and the date it is due to be checked again.
We set the re-check date to when a fact is actually likely to move, not to a generic interval. A few examples of how that plays out:
When a re-check finds a change, it goes through the same human gate as a new fact. It is confirmed against the official source by a person before the page changes.
We will get things wrong sometimes. Rules change without notice, sources contradict themselves, and verification is human. When that happens, our job is to fix it quickly and openly.
Finding errors is part of how this site stays accurate, not something we hide from. If a number here does not match what you see on the official source, the official source wins, and we want to know.
Only the official immigration authority for each destination: Home Affairs for Australia, Immigration New Zealand, GOV.UK, and IRCC for Canada. Every visa fact links to the government page it came from.
No. Automation watches official sources for change and flags it, but a person confirms and approves every visa fact before it publishes or updates. Visa facts never auto-correct.
Every fact shows the date it was last confirmed and is on a re-check schedule tied to when it is likely to change. If a fact is overdue or in doubt, we hold it rather than show it.
We do not publish it as fact. We either hold the specific number until a person can confirm it, or keep the statement general and true without it.
Use the contact address on this page (hello@workingholidayessentials.com). We check every report against the official source and, if it is wrong, fix it and reset the verified date.