What changed, and when
Visa rules move, and most published guides never say when. This page records every change we've confirmed to the rules we publish — what changed, the date it took effect, and the country it affects. If you read a figure here last year and it's different now, this page tells you why.
How this page is produced
Every visa record on this site carries the official government page it was checked against. Once a week those pages are fetched and compared against the last version we stored. When the text of a page moves, it's flagged for a person to read.
Nothing here is written automatically. The check finds candidates; a human reads the difference and decides whether a rule actually changed or a website was merely redesigned. That's the whole reason to trust an entry: somebody looked. A detector that published its own guesses would be faster and worth nothing.
Some government sites block automated checks or sit behind scripts we don't run. Those are listed as manual-check-required rather than quietly reported as fine — an honest gap beats a green tick that means nothing. The full method is on how we verify, and the underlying records are free to download under CC BY 4.0.
Changes by country
Thailand
Thailand Privilege's ฿750,000 promotion on the family add-on card ended on 30 September 2026, and the regular fee of ฿1,000,000 to ฿2,000,000 applies again.
Covers the next-member card for an immediate family member, offered on Platinum (฿1,000,000), Diamond (฿1,500,000) and Reserve (฿2,000,000), VAT included, per the operator's next-member terms and its September 2026 leaflet. Bronze and Gold have no family card. The operator's own card list still showed ฿750,000 on 1 October 2026, so ask the operator which price applies before you pay.
Thailand began taxing foreign income when it is remitted, whatever year it was earned — closing the long-used route of bringing money in during a later tax year to avoid Thai tax.
Revenue Department Order Por. 161/2566, effective 1 January 2024, replacing a 1987 ruling under which foreign income brought in during a later year was exempt. It applies once you are a Thai tax resident, which Thailand sets at more than 180 days in a calendar year — not the 183 most countries use, and the number people most often miscount. Order Por. 162/2566 confirms income earned before 1 January 2024 is not caught. Rates on remitted income run progressively from 5% to 35%.
Portugal
Portugal raised the residence required for naturalisation from six years to ten for most applicants, and from five to seven for EU and CPLP nationals. Permanent residency is unaffected and still available at five years.
Lei Orgânica n.º 1/2026, published 18 May 2026 and in force from 19 May 2026. A second change matters as much as the headline one: legal residence is now counted from the issue date of a valid residence card, so the wait for the card — including the declaration-of-interest stage — no longer counts toward the total. Applications already pending on 19 May 2026 are decided under the previous rules. Most guides still quote five years, which was correct only for EU and CPLP nationals and is now wrong for everyone.
Romania
Romania raised the fee for every long-stay (Type D) visa from €120 to €300, the digital nomad visa included.
Applies to long-stay applications submitted through the e-Visa portal to Romanian diplomatic and consular missions from 27 April 2026. The residence permit card issued after arrival is charged separately at RON 259. Our own Romania record carried the old figure until sprint 017 caught it — which is why this page exists.
Spotted a change before we did?
Consulates change requirements faster than they update their websites, so the people who know first are the ones who just applied. Send it through contact with the country and what you ran into — it gets checked against the official source and recorded here with the date.