Last updated: May 2026
Visa Advice Hub publishes practical guides for migrant workers and expats — people navigating visa, labour, banking, and financial systems, often in a second or third language. This page explains how we research, write, and maintain every guide on this site.
Our Publishing Standard
Every article is built around one question: if a worker needed to act on this information today, would it be accurate, complete, and clear enough to help them?
We do not publish claims we cannot source to an official document, government portal, or verified service provider. Opinion, speculation, and unverifiable claims are not presented as fact.
Source Hierarchy
We research and verify information using the following priority order:
- Primary official sources — UAE federal legislation (via the Official Gazette and u.ae), MOHRE official communications, ICP/GDRFA official portals, Central Bank of UAE, Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, Dubai Courts, and equivalent government portals for other countries covered.
- Regulatory and agency publications — official press releases, published circulars, and confirmed policy updates from government agencies.
- Service provider official pages — bank websites, money transfer service rate pages, insurance provider terms — for fees, rates, and procedures.
- Legal text with citations — where a rule is referenced, the specific law number, decree number, and article number are cited. If we reference a rule, we cite the rule.
We do not use secondary summaries, third-party legal blogs, or unverified forum posts as factual sources.
How We Handle Figures That Change
Fines, fees, exchange rates, and processing times change regularly. We do not present a specific number as permanent truth when it is subject to change.
Where an exact figure applies as a fixed rule (for example, the AED 50 per day overstay fine or a specific calculation formula set in law), we cite the source and its effective date. Where figures change frequently, we explain how readers can verify the current figure directly — rather than printing a number that could be outdated within weeks.
AI-Assisted Production — What This Means in Practice
Visa Advice Hub uses AI-assisted tools (including large language models) in the research and drafting process. We are transparent about this because readers deserve to know how content is produced, and because the distinction between AI-generated and AI-assisted content matters for accuracy.
What AI tools do in our workflow:
- Structure and outline guides based on research prompts we provide
- Draft initial text that is then reviewed, edited, and corrected by a human editor
- Summarise long official documents to identify relevant sections for human review
What AI tools do not do:
- AI does not have final authority on any factual claim. Every figure, date, and procedural step is verified against the official source cited in the guide before publication.
- AI does not write the official source citations — these are researched and verified by a human editor.
- AI is not used to fabricate case examples, quotes, or statistics. Illustrative scenarios are clearly labelled as worked examples, not real cases.
The reason we use AI-assisted tools is efficiency — not to replace editorial judgment. Our guides cover complex regulatory topics in a second or third language for many readers. Getting the facts right matters more than word count. A guide drafted with AI assistance and reviewed carefully against official sources is more useful than one written without assistance that contains unchecked errors.
If you believe any content on this site contains an AI-generated error, a hallucinated fact, or a claim that doesn’t match the official source cited, please use our Contact page to report it. We treat these reports as high priority.
Correction and Update Procedure
We review and update guides when:
- Official law or regulations change
- A reader submits a correction via the Contact page
- A source link breaks or a government portal is restructured
- We identify an error in a periodic internal review
Correction request process:
- Submit the page URL and the specific claim you believe is incorrect via the Contact page
- If possible, include a link to an official source that contradicts what we have published
- We aim to review within 5 business days
- If the correction is confirmed, we update the guide and revise the “Last reviewed” date
- Significant corrections are noted at the top of the relevant guide
We do not silently delete incorrect content — if a published claim was wrong, we correct it in place so readers who bookmarked the guide see the updated information.