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How we work
Four things decide whether a site like this is worth trusting: what it publishes, who pays for it, what it does when it is wrong, and what it admits it cannot do. All four are below, and each one is checkable from the data rather than taken on our word.
50
official pages cited across the site
159
claims traced back to one of them
0
fees of any kind charged to readers
What we publish, and what we refuse to publish
This site asks people to make decisions about their savings and their family's future. That deserves rules, stated in public and checkable.
Every claim carries its source and its date
Each factual statement links to the official page it came from and shows the date we last checked it. If a page has not been rechecked recently you can see that for yourself and treat it accordingly. A confident undated page is a warning sign anywhere on the web, and that includes this one.
We count a source as due a recheck once it is more than 6 months old, and we flag it rather than quietly leaving it in place. Right now 0 of our 50 sources carry that flag.
See all our sources and their agesWe rank by official data, never by opinion
When we say a country is short of a particular trade, that ordering comes from that country's own shortage analysis. We do not rank trades by what we think, and we do not rank them by what pays us.
Where the official analysis is itself getting old, we say so on the page and in the rules feed rather than presenting it as this month's position.
See the rules feedWe publish the bad news
Where a route is closed, we say it is closed. Where a timeline is two years, we say two years rather than the best case. Our eligibility checkers score conservatively on purpose: an over-optimistic result costs you money, and you would only find the error after you had spent it.
A country appears only when we can source it
We would rather show a few countries properly than forty badly. One country is published. 5 more are listed as under research, and they stay listed that way until each track has a sourced route, a demand list taken from an official list, and a review date.
We write for people reading in a second language, on a cheap phone
Short sentences, plain words, no jargon we have not explained, and figures stated as figures. If a sentence only reads well to someone who already knows the system, it is a badly written sentence.
If something here is wrong
Tell us, and we will check it, fix it, and date the fix. The evidence index shows you every source we rely on and how old each one is, so you can often spot a stale figure before we do. The rules feed is where every change to a governing figure gets logged.