VAMOLA
Document: About

About Vamola

What it is

Vamola matches you against the routes you can use to enter a country: which visa fits your Passport, Destination, Purpose and age, how long you can stay, which vaccinations and documents you need, and what it costs, now including direct permanent residence pathways. Canada, Australia and the USA at launch, for a holiday, for work or for permanent residence.

One page at a time

How the data is built

Nothing in Vamola is generated or guessed. Every Fact, a fee, a maximum stay, a document requirement, is read off a primary government or health-authority Source, one assertion at a time, never generated, never inferred, and never from a blog, a news article or another aggregator. Each Fact carries its Source link and a Checked-on date, the date Vamola last checked that value against the page it cites, so you can see exactly where it came from and when it was last confirmed.

Vamola reports what a government page said on a date. It reads its sources automatically. It is not immigration advice and it is not a guarantee, and Vamola is not responsible for what those pages say. Every figure links to the page it came from, so you can check it yourself: that link is the point, and it is stronger than any promise we could make.

Staying current

Government pages change. Vamola re-checks its Facts monthly, and detects Drift automatically when a Source page changes after it was last checked, which brings that Fact forward for an earlier check. A Checked-on date never moves on a timer: it moves only when the page was fetched again and still said the same thing.

Coverage gap

Coverage gaps, honestly

Vamola aims to cover every Passport, Destination and Purpose combination for its launch countries; 42 combinations are matched today, still a small slice of the whole grid. Where a cell is not curated yet, we call it a Coverage gap and link you straight to the official source, rather than guessing or hiding the gap.

What Vamola will not do

Vamola will not tell you whether you personally will be approved for a Route. See the Disclaimer for that line, and why it matters.

Money

Everything Vamola does is free: the match, the Dossier when it is built, and Change alerts when they are built. There is nothing to buy and no paid tier. Neither the Dossier nor Change alerts exist in the app yet, and neither will cost anything when they do.

Vamola carries one unobtrusive ad slot below the answer at most, never inside the answer, and never from the immigration lawyer or visa agency categories. There is no ad blocker detection: block ads and you simply see no ad, with nothing else degraded.

A one off donation of any amount is welcome and entirely optional. Nothing is withheld from somebody who does not give, and nothing is promised to somebody who does. There is no way to donate in the app yet either.

No sign-in is needed to use anything. Sign in only if you want alerts sent to you by email once they exist, and then with Google or Apple only, never an email and a password.

Languages

English, Italian and Spanish at launch.