Editorial desk

ReservationPoints Travel Documents Desk

This desk covers the documents that go into a visa file: what each one is, what it is not, and which are accepted as proof of what.

A desk is an editorial function at Reservation Points, not a person. Articles are assigned to the desk that owns the subject and the sources it is allowed to reason from. Both are stated below so you can check them.

What this desk covers

The documents that go into a visa file rather than to a check-in agent. Dummy tickets and flight itineraries for visa applications; hotel reservations and other proof of accommodation; proof of funds; travel medical insurance; cover, invitation, sponsorship, employer and no-objection letters as document classes; itinerary receipts, e-ticket numbers and EMDs as artefacts; the terminology split between real, dummy and fake.

What it reasons from

These are the classes of source this desk is permitted to use. Where a page states a rule, the rule is quoted from one of them, with the date it was read.

• The site's own product behaviour and generated output, inspected directly
• Document-class definitions from IATA and airline documentation
• Consulate document checklists, quoted with the date read, cross-referred to the regional desks for country-specific rules
• Hotel booking confirmations issued through the product, inspected as artefacts with personal data redacted

Geographic focus

None. This desk owns document classes, not jurisdictions. Where a page needs a country-specific rule, that rule is sourced from the owning regional desk’s evidence and attributed to the government source, not to this desk.

Articles from this desk

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Corrections

If something on a page from this desk is wrong, or a source has changed since the date we read it, tell us at contact us and we will check the source again.