Editorial methodology

What we publish

StatementsCraft helps applicants prepare readable companion summaries of bank data they already hold. We are not a bank, embassy, or immigration adviser. Not affiliated with any bank, embassy, or government agency.

Applicant-prepared summary. Accompanies your original bank-issued statements; does not replace them.

Sources we prefer

• Official government pages (GOV.UK, IRCC, EU Visa Code / Annex guidance, DOS, DHA).
• Embassy / VFS checklists that name statement format, stamps, or months of history.
• Published Federal Court reasoning when it clarifies how officers weigh funds.
• Forum threads (Reddit and similar) only to discover pain points — never as authority for thresholds.

Destination footnotes and visa landing pages store a last verified date and link to official sources. We do not invent “unofficial” balance thresholds.

Review cadence

Core destination YAML is reviewed on a quarterly cadence (or sooner when a statute or IRCC/UKVI page changes). Blog posts that cite amounts should show last verified / next review where applicable.

Editorial review: StatementsCraft founder.

Integrity rules

• · We never change transactions, amounts, or balances.
• · Submit your original bank-issued statement when required; our PDF is a readable companion and summary.
• · We are not affiliated with any bank, embassy, or government.
• · We do not train AI models on your uploaded bank statement file.
• · We never show an embassy “approval %” or claim a formatted PDF guarantees a visa.
• · We never edit transactions, balances, or hide deposits.

Extraction & reconciliation

Before export we recompute running balances from the rows we read and compare them to the statement's own totals. A single mismatched debit or credit fails the gate — we do not invent corrected amounts.

We do not publish an accuracy percentage until a reproducible public test set exists. See the synthetic Visa Pack sample for an interactive walkthrough.

How to use our PDFs

1. Download official statements from your bank portal (or get stamps if your consulate requires them).
2. Use StatementsCraft for cover pages, FX notes, deposit checklists, and evidence packets.
3. Submit the bank-issued originals (or certified copies) as the primary financial evidence.
4. Attach our applicant-prepared summary only as a companion when it helps the officer read the file.