Every figure on ReResident comes from a qualifying source: the statute, the official gazette, or the authority that administers the rule. Each value stores its source, the date that source was published, and the date the value was last established against it. Where sources disagree, the value is withheld and marked. Nothing is estimated.
Where the facts come from
Sources are ranked in two tiers, and the tier decides what can carry a figure. Tier 1 is official: government migration portals, statutes and gazettes, consolidated law services (official databases that publish a law with its amendments worked in), tax authorities. Tier 2 corroborates but never carries a fact on its own: international organisations, established law-firm publications, financial press. Marketing pages of relocation agencies are never cited. Forums never appear at all.
Corroboration is sought for every material fact: a second qualifying source beside the official one, cited when found. Where the administering authority is the only official publisher of a rule, its own publication carries the fact. The source list beside each figure shows exactly what it rests on.
Consolidated texts can lag behind, and a statute read as first published shows the law as it stood that day. So amendments are always searched separately.
When sources disagree
Two qualifying sources sometimes state different figures for the same rule. When that happens the value is recorded as disputed, both sources are cited, and the figure is not shown to readers until the contradiction is resolved. A withheld figure tells you the official sources conflict. That is worth knowing before you plan around it.
On Czechia’s investment route, the fee for an application lodged at an embassy or consulate reads “Sources disagree”. The Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs publish different amounts for it, and the page cites both.
Unknown, never estimated
If a value cannot be established from a qualifying source, the page says “Not established from a qualifying source”. There are no typical figures here, no estimates, and no numbers borrowed from a neighbouring country.
The same Czech page records the processing time that way, because the Ministry of the Interior publishes no processing range for that permit.
Reference figures
Many thresholds are written in law as multiples of a national index: a minimum wage, a subsistence level, an official reference amount. This record stores the multiple and the index separately, each with its own source. When the index changes, the record shows exactly what moved.
Spain’s non-lucrative visa asks for a monthly income of four times the IPREM, an income index set in Spain’s budget law. The route page shows the multiple, and the Spain country page shows the index with its sources.
Dates on everything
Each figure carries an as-of date: when the value was last established against the sources cited for it. Usually that is the publication date of the newest cited source; where a value was re-confirmed later, the date reflects that check. Source entries also record when they were accessed, and link an archived copy where one exists.
A closed route stays on record with the date and the legal instrument that closed it. Spain’s investment route closed to new applications on 3 April 2025, and its page names Ley Orgánica 1/2025 as the law that closed it.
Editorial review
Each page carries a verification stamp: how many sources are cited, how many are official, the oldest and newest as-of dates, and when the record was last reviewed. Every count and date on the stamp can be checked against the source list beside it. Some values rest on sources published only in the local language. Those are listed for a second reading by a qualified reader of that language, and that review is still under way.
Every country, the same way
Every country is recorded on the same fields, at the same depth, whatever its commercial weight. Nothing in the data ranks countries and nothing marks one as recommended. Where an editorial selection ever appears, it is labelled as one.
What this record is not
The record shows what the law says, with sources. It does not apply the law to your individual case: your nationality, your family, your money and your timeline change which rules bite. Applying the rules to your case is what legal advice is for.
Who pays for this
Paid legal assistance funds the site. It does not affect how countries are compared. Where a page offers a next step toward that assistance, the step is labelled for what it is.
That arrangement is why this method is written down and public. A record funded by paid advice is worth what its method is worth, so the method is checkable: sources on every figure, dates on every source, the same fields for every country, and every dispute shown on the page.