What updates when

Official statistics move once a year. What people post moves every day. This page shows exactly when each source was last checked — including when something has broken.

Posts collected4 raw, before extraction

New this week2 across all sources

Awaiting extraction4 collected, not yet published

Sources tracked9 official and community

Source by source

Source	Last result	Last checked	New (7d)	Notes
`telegram_us_visa_india`	off	not used	—	DISABLED: 78k-member group. t.me/s/ returns the header only — groups have no public web preview. Would need an authenticated MTProto client.
`telegram_f1_slots_india`	off	not used	—	DISABLED: same reason — t.me/s/ yields no message text.
`redbus2us_221g`	not yet run	never	—	robots.txt blocks GPTBot and SemrushBot; '*' is allowed.
`redbus2us_f1_experiences`	not yet run	never	—
`immigration_forum_niv`	not yet run	never	—	2.5M messages, robots-permissive, no AI-bot blocks.
`murthy_forum_consular`	not yet run	never	—
`dos_wait_times`	not yet run	never	—	No history is published anywhere. The archive this builds is the only one that will exist, and it cannot be backfilled.
`ec_schengen_annual`	not yet run	never	—	Watch for the next year's consulate file, usually published around May.
`dos_refusal_rates`	not yet run	never	—

How the update works

Only what is new. Each source keeps a marker of the last thing we saw. A run fetches what has appeared since — it does not re-read the whole archive.
Collect first, interpret second. New posts are stored before anything tries to read meaning into them. So a bad interpretation can be redone later without losing the material.
Nothing goes live on arrival. A post only becomes a published report once the outcome it claims is actually supported by what the person wrote. Anything unclear stays unclear.
Logged out, and polite. We read only public pages, honour each site's robots.txt and crawl-delay, and make one request at a time. We hold no accounts anywhere.
Questions are not outcomes. "Did they issue 221(g)?" is a question, not a 221(g) report. Only a first-hand account of something that happened to the writer is counted — and replies from a forum's own moderators are excluded, which on one real thread was 17% of it.
Sources we cannot use are listed as off, with the reason. A source that silently returns nothing looks exactly like a source with no news.
Failures are shown, not hidden. When a source breaks it appears above as failing and gets retried less often, rather than being quietly dropped.

Why official data lags

The European Commission publishes consulate figures once a year, usually around May. The US State Department publishes refusal rates once a year with no announcement, and has skipped years entirely. Visa wait times change weekly but no history is published anywhere — so the record we keep of them is the only one that exists.

That is the honest split: the crowd tells you what is happening this week, the governments tell you what happened last year, and neither substitutes for the other.