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Countries and classes

How to read BROVi Scan's coverage, and the general visa-class taxonomy.

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Two layers of coverage #

Coverage has a broad layer and a deep layer, and it is worth knowing which one you are looking at:

  • The registry is broad: nearly every country carries a baseline set of general visa classes, so any corridor has a starting point.
  • The verified document library is deep but narrower: actual human-approved links to official documents exist where curators have done the work, and that set grows corridor by corridor.

A corridor appearing in the registry does not mean every document for it is verified yet. The coverage and transparency page shows live, computed counts of what is actually verified today; the docs deliberately do not duplicate numbers that go stale.

The general class taxonomy #

Where a country does not yet have detailed, country-specific visa classes, it carries eight general purpose-of-travel classes:

ClassCovers
Tourist / VisitorTourism and short visits
StudentStudy at any level
Work / EmploymentEmployment-based travel
BusinessBusiness trips, conferences, trade
Family reunificationJoining family members
TransitPassing through en route elsewhere
Medical treatmentTravel for medical care
OtherAnything not covered above

Countries with detailed curation carry their own official class names on top of this baseline.

Reading a corridor page #

Each corridor page under Visa corridors lists the registered visa classes for that country and, for each, the document links that have been verified. An empty or short document list means curation has not reached that corridor yet, not that no documents are required.