Editorial Policy

Every article on GulfVisaHub begins with primary sources. We do not publish second-hand summaries of other websites' summaries. Our research hierarchy, from most authoritative to supplementary, is:

Gulf immigration rules change more frequently than almost any other category of regulatory information. Fee schedules shift with fiscal years. Visa categories are added, modified, or suspended. Bilateral labour agreements are renegotiated. We maintain the following update commitments:

We link directly to primary sources wherever possible. If a fee schedule is published as a PDF on a government portal, we link to that PDF. If a rule change was announced via a Royal Gazette notice, we cite the gazette reference.

When we cannot verify a figure: Gulf government portals are not always comprehensive or current. Some fee schedules are not published online at all, or are published only in Arabic without an official English translation. In these cases, we do one of the following:

• Mark the figure with [VERIFY] and note the source of our estimate
• State explicitly: "Fees vary - verify the current amount with the relevant authority or your employer before submitting payment"
• Provide a range rather than a single figure when official documentation describes multiple scenarios

We never present an unverified estimate as a confirmed official fee. We consider this the most important single editorial standard we maintain - because an incorrect fee figure has real financial consequences for our readers.

We make mistakes. When we do, we correct them transparently and promptly.

• Factual errors (incorrect fee, wrong procedure, outdated rule) are corrected within 24 hours of being reported to us and independently verified.
• All corrections are noted at the top of the affected article with the date the correction was made and a brief description of what changed. We do not silently edit errors out of articles.
• For significant corrections - particularly changes that affected financial advice or application steps - we include a plain-language explanation of what was wrong and what the correct information is.
• Disputed information that we cannot independently verify within 24 hours is flagged with a note that the figure is under review, rather than being left as-is while we investigate.