Open data
The consulate dataset
Everything this site claims about consulate requirements lives in one JSON file. It is free, needs no key, and is open to any origin. Take it, cite it, or use it to check us.
Verified 2026-08-17
Why it exists
The whole category publishes one number per country. “Spain: 90 days.” That is wrong twice over. It is six months, and it is set per consulate rather than per country. Consulates inside one country do not agree with each other, and some do not ask for the document at all.
So the data is recorded the way the offices actually publish it: one row per consulate, with the sentence quoted and the date we read it. Where posts disagree, the disagreement is kept. Nothing is averaged, and nothing is filled in from another apostille website.
Get it
What is in each row
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
post | The consulate, named the way it names itself. |
required | Whether an FBI Identity History Summary appears on that post’s published list. null where the post does not say. |
recency | How recent the report must be, in the consulate’s own words. |
quote | The sentence itself, verbatim, so you can check us against the source. |
source | The URL we read. The consulate, never another apostille service. |
checked | ISO date we read it. |
Licence and citation
Free to use, including commercially, under CC BY 4.0. Cite it as ExpatPapers consulate dataset, expatpapers.com/data, with the date you fetched it. You do not need to ask.
How often it changes
Each row is re-read when we touch that destination, and every row carries its own
checked date rather than one date for the file. The file also reports the
day it was generated.
Read the caveat before you build on it. Consulates revise their
instructions without notice and do not announce it. Treat any row older than a few
months as needing reconfirmation, and follow the source link before you
act on it. This is a record of what was published on a date. It is not legal or
immigration advice.
Corrections
If you read a consulate page that contradicts a row, tell us and we will re-read it. A correction with a source is the most useful email we get: support@expatpapers.com.