How we check facts
Every rule, fee and deadline on Overseasy comes from an official page, and shows when we last checked it.
Where our facts come from
We start from the government or scheme's own page: Home Affairs for Australia, Immigration New Zealand, canada.ca, embassy pages, GOV.UK. Each fact on a route page links to the page it came from. If we ever rely on a secondary source, it's labelled.
How often we check
- Every route is re-checked at least every 90 days, and every 30 days when a deadline or ballot date is near.
- A route that's past its check date shows Needs re-check and drops down the rankings until we've confirmed it again.
- When a source page changes, we review the route before it goes back to normal.
How the route finder decides
Eligibility is decided by plain rules from each official page, never by AI. You'll see one of three answers: You appear eligible when every rule we can check passes, Check this when your age on the day that counts depends on your birthday or our data is due a check, and Not eligible yet with the reason and what would change it. Conditions we don't ask about, like health, character or past visas, are listed on every route as "also required".
Routes are ranked in a fixed order: how certain the rules are, how trustworthy the provider is, whether your money covers the conservative estimate, and then how well it fits your goal. Payment never moves a route up.
How the runway calculator works
It adds up what going safely needs: upfront costs (fees, insurance, programme fees), living costs until your first pay day, and a reserve you never touch (a flight home plus two weeks' living). It compares that, and the money the route asks you to show, with your savings.
- Conservative (the default): higher living costs, 4 weeks to find work, 4 weeks to first pay, and a 3% currency buffer.
- Expected: typical costs, 2 weeks to find work and 2 to first pay.
- Optimistic: lower costs and 1 week to find work. Labelled uncertain for a reason.
Income from a job you haven't been offered is never counted. Living costs come from each government's student living-cost figure where one is published, and exchange rates from the European Central Bank's daily reference rates.
What this isn't
Overseasy is general information, not immigration advice. "You appear to meet the published criteria" never means "you'll get this visa". For advice on your own case, talk to a regulated immigration adviser.