How The Citizenship Desk is built
Measured numbers
Counted by the collection, not written by hand. A figure we cannot support is left out rather than shown as zero.
- Pages
- 137,365
- 2nd of 24 measured in Legal/Civic, by sitemap URLs
- Page count over time
- 137,232 → 2,240 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
- Languages
- English
- Uptime
- 100.00% over 30 days
- From the public status feed
- Deploys
- 20 in the last 30 days
- Last deploy 22 Oct 2026. From the public status feed
- llms.txt
- Published
- llms.txt 2.6 KB · llms-full.txt 1.3 MB
- Feed
- Published
- Sitemap
- Listed in robots.txt
- Content last updated
- 14 Oct 2026
- As reported by the site itself
Tech and AI search
Read from the live site on 2026-10-23: its homepage, robots.txt and llms.txt. A line we could not read is left out.
- Built with
- Next.js
- Read from the homepage markup
- Structured data
- Organization, WebSite
- schema.org types on the homepage
- AI crawler access
- Allows all 11 major AI crawlers
- From the site’s robots.txt
- llms.txt link depth
- 21 page links
- Markdown links in the site’s llms.txt
- Search
- Search box on the homepage
How it is built, by role
The same roles apply across the whole collection. Nothing in this block is specific to this site; what the site says about itself is quoted word for word below it.
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Edge network
Visitors reach a site through an edge layer: a content delivery network with a web application firewall in front of it.
- 2
Application host
The edge talks to an application host that serves the site and renders its pages.
- 3
Data
What the pages show comes from a relational database or, for a site pre-rendered at build time, from data files built into its release.
- 4
Scheduled measurement
The collection measures its sites on a schedule: content dates and site health nightly, page counts read from each site’s sitemap weekly. Every reading is kept with its date. A site too large to re-walk is not re-measured, and shows no trend.
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Public status feed
A monitoring panel sends a signed report on uptime, deploys and backups once a day, and the Operations page publishes it. A figure on this page that comes from that report says so.
In the site's own words
Each passage is copied unaltered from a page the site publishes, with the address it was taken from and the date we took it. We add nothing between them.
“The Citizenship Desk is a neutral reference site for residency, citizenship, and global relocation. We catalogue visa programs, citizenship-by-investment and citizenship-by-descent pathways, country profiles, internationally accredited hospitals, non-resident banking options, and company formation jurisdictions.”
“We do not sell visas. We do not take referral fees. We do not accept payment for placement. We do not make recommendations. We publish verifiable facts about programs sourced from official government publications and let users decide.”
“Every program page links to its official government source. Every page carries a “last verified” date. We include restrictions, red flags, and suspension notices because transparency is the entire point.”
“A plain-English map of which countries offer jus sanguinis, how many generations back they accept, which require court proceedings, and where recent reforms (UK, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain) opened or closed doors.”
“A sourced comparison of the shortest EU naturalisation timelines, from 2-year descent fast-tracks to 5-year residency routes — plus the hidden requirements that extend them in practice.”
“Programme-by-programme comparison combining minimum income requirements with actual cost-of-living data, so the buffer you keep after rent, food, and tax becomes legible at a glance.”
“How the 90-days-in-180 limit actually works: rolling-window mechanics, what counts as Schengen, when residence permits override the count, and how the new ETIAS and EES systems change compliance from late 2025 onwards.”
“Decision framework comparing CBI, descent, RBI/golden visa, and naturalisation through residence. When residency suffices, when citizenship is worth the price, and the most common mistakes in matching route to goal.”
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Timeline
137,232 → 2,240 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
| Date | Pages |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 137,232 |
| 2026-10-10 | 137,347 |
| 2026-10-18 | 137,365 |
| 2026-10-25 | 2,240 |
- 30 Sep 2026137,232 pages
- 10 Oct 2026137,347 pages
- 18 Oct 2026137,365 pages
- 25 Oct 20262,240 pages