About EnvoyAtlas

Missions come from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and the open data of foreign ministries; town names from GeoNames; visa rules from the Passport Index dataset. Every source and licence is listed on the data sources page. Each mission page shows where its record comes from and when it was last updated.

Each mission is matched across its sources: OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and the official diplomatic lists that several foreign ministries publish (each one is named on the data sources page). The official lists complete and correct addresses, phone numbers and heads of mission; where a position is known only roughly, the map shows the town rather than a building.

A mission page is offered to search engines only when it has an address and at least one way to reach the mission: a phone number, website, e-mail address or opening hours. Records without them stay on the site for visitors but are not promoted.

The rule for each passport and destination comes from the Passport Index dataset. Where a pair rests on one government’s own published statement instead, its page names that source.

The visa guides are written from the destination governments’ official pages, never from other guides. Every visa type shows the date it was last checked against its source.

Application numbers and refusal rates come from the European Commission’s consulate-level Schengen visa statistics (reused under CC BY 4.0) and the US State Department’s monthly nonimmigrant visa issuances and adjusted refusal rates (public domain). Ranks, changes and comparisons are computed from those figures; a value the source does not publish is left out, not estimated.

Every language has its own texts, written for its readers from the same data rather than translated page by page. The numbers in them are computed from the database when a page is built, so a sentence and the table beside it always agree.

The database is rebuilt every night from the latest sources, and the footer of every page shows the date of the last update. Missions still move, change their hours and their rules without notice: before you travel or apply, confirm with the mission’s or the government’s own website, which each mission page links to when it is known.

Use the “Wrong info?” link on the mission’s page: it opens an e-mail to us with the page address in the subject. Records from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata can also be corrected there directly.

We are not affiliated with any government, embassy or visa agency, sell no visas and take no fees. For anything that matters, check the mission’s own website; see the disclaimer.

If a record is wrong, use the “Wrong info?” link on its page or write to info@envoyatlas.com with the page address. Records from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata can also be corrected there directly; corrections appear here after the next data update.