Registry entry

Sri Lanka — Application for a Entry Visa (Form B, Regulations 6)

The Department of Immigration & Emigration's (Immigration & Emigration) "Application for a Entry Visa", Form B (Regulations 6), opening Sri Lanka's Visa vertical (4 of 6), following Passport (GOV-2716, 47th jurisdiction), National ID & Civic Documents (GOV-2753), and DMV (GOV-2781). This is the general entry-visa application submitted (typically at a Sri Lankan diplomatic/consular mission abroad, or at the Department itself) for a visit visa (tourist, resident, or other purpose) or a gratis visa exemption; it coexists with, and is not superseded by, the separate online ETA (Electronic Travel Authorization) system, which covers only tourist visas for nationals of a fixed list of ETA-eligible countries and has no downloadable static form of its own. Published directly by the Department (immigration.gov.lk) as a static, unauthenticated download, fetched directly (HTTP 200, application/pdf, 359,721 bytes, sha256: 78dfa0be2ee5d9afe32cfd37ae8083ab8f3dbe75a53065221614760ee74aa22). This is a flat, non-AcroForm 5-page form (confirmed via pdfjs-dist@3: zero Widget annotations, zero getFieldObjects() entries) with no extractable positioned text layer (a scanned/rasterized specimen, unlike the sibling lk/dmt and lk/drp forms' genuine text layers); every field was read from a page render (pdfjs-dist + node-canvas, standard fonts loaded) rather than a text-content transcript. Pages 1-4 are the applicant-facing application; page 5 is entirely an "Office Use Only" block (gratis/visit-visa grant particulars, visa number, correspondence number, officer name/designation, visa endorsement, and duplicate office-copy photograph/finger-mark boxes) and is excluded here as office-intake content, consistent with this registry's established convention for the same class of content. This v1.0.0 models 61 applicant-facing fields[] plus 1 documents[] entry (the applicant's photograph). GovSchema is an independent, non-profit standards body and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Government of Sri Lanka or the Department of Immigration & Emigration.

Registry entry

lk/imm/application-for-a-entry-visa

Jurisdiction
Sri Lanka · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft

Authoritative source Department of Immigration & Emigration, "Application for a Entry Visa", Form B, Regulations 6

Machine access

Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

61 fields, read from the published schema.json, with names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Fields

  • presentPassportNumber string required

    The applicant's present passport number.

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • presentPassportPlaceOfIssue string required

    The place of issue of the applicant's present passport.

  • presentPassportDateOfIssue date required

    The date of issue of the applicant's present passport.

  • presentPassportDateOfExpiry date required

    The date of expiry of the applicant's present passport.

  • previousPassportNumber string optional

    The number of the applicant's previously held passport, if any. Printed under "Details of previous passport held, if any" with no explicit yes/no gate, so left optional.

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • previousPassportPlaceOfIssue string optional

    The place of issue of the applicant's previously held passport, if any.

  • previousPassportDateOfIssue date optional

    The date of issue of the applicant's previously held passport, if any.

  • previousPassportDateOfExpiry date optional

    The date of expiry of the applicant's previously held passport, if any.

  • fullNameAsInPassport string required

    The applicant's full name exactly as shown in their passport.

    classification: pii
  • nationality string required

    The applicant's current nationality. Printed as a blank line with no options text, so modeled as free text rather than an invented enum.

  • naturalizationDate date optional

    The date of naturalization, applicable only if the applicant was naturalized. Printed with no explicit yes/no gate ahead of it, so left optional.

  • naturalizationPlace string optional

    The place of naturalization, applicable only if the applicant was naturalized.

  • formerNationality string optional

    The applicant's former nationality prior to naturalization, applicable only if naturalized.

  • gender enum required

    The applicant's gender, printed as a checkbox choice.

    enum: male | female
  • dateOfBirth date required

    The applicant's date of birth.

    classification: pii
  • placeOfBirth string required

    The applicant's place of birth.

    classification: pii
  • countryOfBirth string required

    The applicant's country of birth.

    classification: pii
  • civilStatus enum required

    The applicant's civil status, printed as a checkbox choice.

    enum: single | married | widowed | divorced
  • spouseFullName string optional

    The applicant's spouse's full name, required only when civilStatus is 'married'.

    classification: pii
  • spouseNationality string optional

    The applicant's spouse's nationality, required only when civilStatus is 'married'.

  • spousePostalAddress string optional

    The applicant's spouse's postal address, required only when civilStatus is 'married'.

    classification: pii
  • spousePassportNumber string optional

    The applicant's spouse's passport number, required only when civilStatus is 'married'. The source form's own printed roman numeral repeats 'iii)' across the page 1/page 2 boundary (page 1 already prints an 'iii) Postal Address' under the same item 10) — a printed renumbering artifact, not a duplicate field; modeled here as a distinct spouse-passport sub-item continuing item 10 onto page 2, per its position immediately following the spouse block.

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • spousePassportDateOfExpiry date optional

    The applicant's spouse's passport expiry date, required only when civilStatus is 'married'.

  • heightCm integer required

    The applicant's height in centimeters.

    range: 0–300
  • identificationMarks string optional

    Any identifying marks or physical peculiarities of the applicant. The source form's own printed label reads "Pecularities" (a printed misspelling of "Peculiarities"), preserved verbatim in the label above. No explicit gate ahead of this item, so left optional.

  • addressInCountryOfDomicile string required

    The applicant's address in their country of domicile.

    classification: pii
  • addressDuringStayInSriLanka string required

    The applicant's address while staying in Sri Lanka.

    classification: pii
  • professionOccupation string required

    The applicant's profession or occupation.

  • employerNameAddress string optional

    The name and address of the applicant's employer, if any. The source form's own printed label reads "employee" (contextually referring to the applicant's employer, given the label's own "if any" qualifier and its pairing with item 14.ii's business-address question), preserved verbatim in the label above.

  • businessLocation string optional

    Where the applicant's business is located, if the applicant is in business.

  • businessFax string optional

    The fax number of the applicant's business, if applicable.

  • businessEmail string optional

    The e-mail address of the applicant's business, if applicable.

  • contactTelephone string optional

    The applicant's own telephone number. No explicit gate is printed distinguishing which of Telephone/Mobile/Fax/E-Mail is mandatory, so all four are left optional.

    classification: pii
  • contactMobile string optional

    The applicant's own mobile number.

    classification: pii
  • contactFax string optional

    The applicant's own fax number.

  • contactEmail string optional

    The applicant's own e-mail address.

    classification: pii
  • objectOfVisit enum required

    The purpose of the applicant's present visit to Sri Lanka, printed as a checkbox choice.

    enum: tourist | resident_visa | other
  • objectOfVisitOtherSpecify string optional

    The specified other purpose of visit, required only when objectOfVisit is 'other'.

  • routeAndModeOfTravel string required

    The applicant's route and mode of travel to Sri Lanka.

  • periodOfVisaRequired string required

    The period for which the visit visa is required (e.g. a duration such as '30 days'). Printed as an open blank box with no printed unit, so modeled as free text rather than an invented numeric+unit structure.

  • lastPlaceOfResidenceInSriLanka string optional

    The applicant's last place of residence during a previous stay in Sri Lanka, applicable only if previously in Sri Lanka. No explicit yes/no checkbox precedes this question on the source form, so left optional rather than gated on an invented boolean.

  • dateOfLeavingSriLanka date optional

    The date the applicant left Sri Lanka during a previous stay, applicable only if previously in Sri Lanka.

  • visaLastObtainedType enum optional

    The type of the last visa obtained by the applicant, applicable only if previously in Sri Lanka. Printed as a checkbox choice continuing item 19.

    enum: tourist | resident_visa | other | multiple
  • visaLastObtainedSpecify string optional

    The specified detail of the last visa obtained, required when visaLastObtainedType is 'resident_visa', 'other', or 'multiple' (each printed with its own 'Specify' blank; 'tourist' alone has none).

  • visaLastObtainedIssueDate date optional

    The date of issue of the last visa obtained, applicable only if previously in Sri Lanka.

  • visaLastObtainedValidityMonths integer optional

    The period of validity, in months, of the last visa obtained.

    range: 0–∞
  • visaLastObtainedResidentVisaNumber string optional

    The resident visa number of the last visa obtained, required only when visaLastObtainedType is 'resident_visa'.

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • priorRefusalOrApplicationDetails string optional

    Full particulars of any previous refusal of permission to visit/extend stay in Sri Lanka, or of any previous application made to a Sri Lanka visa office abroad, including by whom and when. Printed as a descriptive question with no preceding yes/no checkbox, so left optional rather than gated on an invented boolean.

  • srilankaContactName string required

    Name of a person in Sri Lanka who can furnish information regarding the applicant and provide security for the applicant's maintenance and repatriation, if so required.

    classification: pii
  • srilankaContactAddress string required

    Address of the person in Sri Lanka referenced in item 21(a).

    classification: pii
  • srilankaContactNumber string required

    Contact number of the person in Sri Lanka referenced in item 21(a).

    classification: pii
  • srilankaContactRelationship string required

    Relationship of the person in Sri Lanka referenced in item 21(a) to the applicant.

    classification: pii
  • homeCountryContactName string required

    Name of a responsible person in the applicant's own country who can furnish information regarding the applicant.

    classification: pii
  • homeCountryContactAddress string required

    Address of the responsible person in the applicant's own country referenced in item 21(b).

    classification: pii
  • homeCountryContactNumber string required

    Contact number of the responsible person in the applicant's own country referenced in item 21(b).

    classification: pii
  • homeCountryContactRelationship string required

    Relationship of the responsible person in the applicant's own country referenced in item 21(b) to the applicant.

    classification: pii
  • fundsAvailableUSD number required

    The amount of money, in US dollars, the applicant will have with them or have available on arrival in Sri Lanka.

    range: 0–∞classification: financial
  • creditCardNames string optional

    The name(s) of credit card(s) available to the applicant, if any.

    classification: financial
  • creditCardAmountSpent number optional

    The amount printed on the source form as "Amounts spent" against the applicant's credit card(s). Printed with no unit/currency marker and no explicit yes/no gate tying it to creditCardNames, so left optional and ungated rather than inventing a requiredWhen condition on an optional string field (this registry's documented notEquals/empty-string gotcha). Modeled as a plain number in the same US$ unit as fundsAvailableUSD given the shared item-22 context.

    range: 0–∞classification: financial
  • additionalSupportingReason string optional

    Any other reason the applicant wishes to urge in support of the application.

  • applicationDate date required

    The date the applicant signed and dated the application.

Verification record

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.

Current claim

  • status: draft
  • verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
  • verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-13
  • maturity.level: structural-reference

This is GovSchema Standard Research cycle GOV-2789, opening Sri Lanka's Visa vertical (4 of 6), following Passport (lk/imm/application-for-a-sri-lankan-passport-emergency-identity-certificate, GOV-2716, 47th jurisdiction), National ID & Civic Documents (lk/drp/application-for-a-national-identity-card, GOV-2753), and DMV (lk/dmt/application-for-a-revenue-licence-for-a-motor-vehicle, GOV-2781).

Duplicate-concurrent-run check

Checked git branch -a | grep -i lk-imm and git log --all --oneline | grep -i "entry-visa\|entry_visit_visa\|lk/imm" before starting — no existing branch, commit, or PR for this candidate. Also searched the Paperclip board for any open issue mentioning "Sri Lanka" or "entry visa" beyond the closed GOV-2716/2753/2781 chain — none found, so no reconciliation was needed.

Candidate selection

This candidate was disclosed as the strongest ready-to-author backlog item for Sri Lanka's Visa vertical in GOV-2781's own VERIFICATION.md ("Visa — strong, not authored this cycle, left as backlog."). Rather than re-scouting from scratch, this cycle re-verified that disclosed claim independently before authoring:

  • Source is still live and unauthenticated, fetched from scratch via curl -sL: https://www.immigration.gov.lk/content/files/visa/entry_visit_visa.pdfHTTP 200, Content-Type: application/pdf, 359,721 bytes. sha256: 78dfa0be2ee5d9afe32cfd37ae8083ab8f3dbe75a53065221614760ee74aa22 (computed via sha256sum), matching GOV-2781's own independently reported hash byte-for-byte. A separate curl -I confirms last-modified: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 06:43:45 GMT — a static, long-unchanged specimen, consistent with a stable general-purpose entry-visa form rather than a frequently revised one.
  • Not superseded by the ETA system, independently re-checked. Fetched https://eta.gov.lk/slvisa/visainfo/center.jsp?locale=en_US directly: the ETA (Electronic Travel Authorization) online system covers tourist visas only, for nationals of a fixed list of ETA-eligible countries (30-day, double-entry under specified conditions), with diplomatic/ official/service passport holders exempted from ETA entirely and directed to "alternative options." The ETA page has no downloadable static form of its own and does not address resident visas, "other purpose" visas, or gratis-visa-exemption cases at all — all of which Form B explicitly covers (item 16: Tourist / Applied for resident visa / Other Purpose). This confirms GOV-2781's claim that Form B "coexists as a separate free-of-charge channel" rather than being superseded.
  • Domain immigration.gov.lk is the correct, official first-party national agency (Department of Immigration & Emigration) — the same authority (imm) already used for this registry's lk/imm passport schema.

PDF structure, independently confirmed via pdfjs-dist

  • 5 pages. Confirmed via pdfjs-dist@3 (legacy build, scratch install in /tmp, never inside tools/): getFieldObjects() returned none (no AcroForm fields) on the whole document; zero Widget annotations on every page.
  • getTextContent() returned zero non-whitespace text items on every page — unlike the sibling lk/dmt/lk/drp forms (both genuine positioned-text PDFs), this specimen is a scanned/rasterized document with no extractable text layer at all. Confirmed this is not a font- loading artifact (the lk/dmt/lk/imm-passport precedent gotcha where a blank-glyph render was actually a missing standardFontDataUrl) by rendering with standardFontDataUrl explicitly set to the installed package's standard_fonts/ directory and still getting zero text items from getTextContent() — the absence is in the PDF's content stream itself (image XObjects, not text operators), not a font-resolution failure.
  • Rendered all 5 pages to PNG via pdfjs-dist + node-canvas (2x scale, custom NodeCanvasFactory) and read every field directly off the rendered images. Page 1: passport/personal-particulars block with the "Affix a photograph" box. Pages 2-4: continuing personal/travel particulars, references, and financial-means questions, ending in the declaration, date, and signature line. Page 5 is entirely "Office Use Only": gratis/visit-visa grant particulars, visa number, correspondence number, the overseas-mission officer's name/designation, a visa- endorsement box, a duplicate office-copy photograph box, a duplicate finger-mark box, and a duplicate "Receives Passport" / signature line — every item on page 5 is completed or affixed by the issuing office, not the applicant, and is excluded in full from fields[], consistent with this registry's established convention for the same class of content (e.g. lk/dmt page 2, rs/mup's deciding-authority items, rs/mfa's consular-only column).

Scope: what is modeled as fields[], and what is excluded

Included (pages 1-4, applicant-facing, 61 fields): present/previous passport particulars, full name, nationality, naturalization detail, gender, date/place/country of birth, civil status with a conditional spouse block (spouseFullName/spouseNationality/spousePostalAddress/ spousePassportNumber/spousePassportDateOfExpiry, all gated requiredWhen civilStatus == married), height, identification marks, domicile and Sri Lanka addresses, profession/employer/business detail, contact numbers, object of visit (with a conditional "other, specify"), route/mode of travel, requested visa period, an optional "previously in Sri Lanka" block (last residence, date of leaving, and the last visa obtained's own sub-block — type, conditional specify, issue date, validity, and a conditional resident-visa number), a free-text prior-refusal narrative, two fixed reference-contact blocks (a person in Sri Lanka; a responsible person in the applicant's home country — each flattened to name/address/contactNumber/relationship fields rather than a generic table, matching this registry's established precedent for a fixed, small number of named contacts, e.g. in/mha/evisa-etourist's referenceName/Address/PhoneIndia + .../HomeCountry pairing), funds available in US$, optional credit-card detail, an optional supporting- reason narrative, and the application date.

Excluded: page 5 in full (office-only content, see above); the "Signature of applicant" line and the "Finger mark of the applicant" box (both physical marks, not structured data — consistent with this registry's convention of modeling only surrounding metadata, e.g. applicationDate, never the mark/signature itself); the "For office use only" Application No / Visa exemption No boxes on page 1 (explicitly labeled office-use in the printed text).

One disclosed printed-form artifact: the source's own roman-numeral sub-item labels repeat iii) across the page 1/page 2 boundary — page 1 ends item 10 ("If Married") with iii) Postal Address, and page 2 opens with a further iii) Passport Number / iv) Date of expiry continuing the same spouse block. This is modeled as two additional spouse fields (spousePassportNumber, spousePassportDateOfExpiry), both gated the same way as the rest of item 10, rather than treated as a duplicate or dropped — disclosed here rather than silently resolved.

Two disclosed apparent typos, preserved verbatim in label, explained in description: item 12's printed label reads "Any identification Marks of Pecularities" (a misspelling of "Peculiarities"); item 14(i)'s printed label reads "Name and address of employee, if any" where context (this item follows "Profession/Occupation" and precedes "If in business, where business is") makes clear the source means the applicant's employer, not their own employee. Both are printed exactly as-is in label per this registry's "read directly from the source" convention, with the likely intent noted in description rather than silently corrected.

No invented boolean gates, per this registry's documented precedent: several sections (naturalization, "previously in Sri Lanka," the prior- refusal narrative, the last-visa-obtained sub-block) are printed with no preceding yes/no checkbox on this specimen, only a descriptive lead-in ("if any" / "if so" / "If So:-"). These are modeled as plain optional fields rather than gated on an invented boolean condition field that does not exist in the source. creditCardAmountSpent follows the same reasoning: left optional and ungated rather than a requiredWhen keyed off creditCardNames via notEquals "", per this registry's documented notEquals-empty-string-on-an-optional-field gotcha.

Documents

documents[] models one entry: passportPhotograph (category supporting-evidence, belongsTo: applicant, required: true), sourced directly from page 1's own "Affix a photograph" box. Checked immigration.gov.lk/pages_e.php?id=24 (the Department's own Applications page) for any separate documents-required checklist accompanying Form B, matching lk/dmt's precedent of citing an external checklist where one exists — none was found; the page offers only the downloadable form itself, with no accompanying document list. documents[] is therefore limited to what the form itself prints, rather than an invented general "supporting documents" list.

Conformance fixtures

Two valid scenarios (0 errors each):

  • valid-single-tourist.json — a single, first-time visitor applying for a tourist visa; no spouse block, no naturalization block, no "previously in Sri Lanka" block, no credit-card detail — every conditional field correctly omitted.
  • valid-married-resident-visa-with-prior-visit.json — a naturalized, married applicant applying for a resident visa, with a previous passport, a full spouse block, a full "previously in Sri Lanka" / last-visa- obtained block (resident type, with its conditional specify and resident-visa-number fields both present), and credit-card detail — exercising every conditional field this schema defines.

Eight mutation controls, each raising exactly one error:

`` $ node check.mjs schema.json mutation-control-missing-required-field.json ["fullNameAsInPassport: required but missing"] $ node check.mjs schema.json mutation-control-invalid-enum-value.json ["gender: value \"other\" not in enum [male, female]"] $ node check.mjs schema.json mutation-control-invalid-type-height.json ["heightCm: expected type integer, got string (\"tall\")"] $ node check.mjs schema.json mutation-control-invalid-date-format.json ["dateOfBirth: expected date (YYYY-MM-DD), got \"20/05/1990\""] $ node check.mjs schema.json mutation-control-value-below-minimum.json ["fundsAvailableUSD: -100 below minimum 0"] $ node check.mjs schema.json mutation-control-missing-required-document.json ["document passportPhotograph: required but not provided"] $ node check.mjs schema.json mutation-control-requiredwhen-missing-spouse-name.json ["spouseFullName: required but missing"] $ node check.mjs schema.json mutation-control-requiredwhen-in-missing-visa-specify.json ["visaLastObtainedSpecify: required but missing"] ``

The last of these specifically exercises the in operator of the shared condition grammar (visaLastObtainedSpecify's requiredWhen is {"field": "visaLastObtainedType", "in": ["resident_visa", "other", "multiple"]}), not just equals — this registry's lk/dmt precedent only exercised equals, so this schema's own fixture set deliberately adds in coverage.

check.mjs is a scratch, from-scratch conformance checker (built in /tmp, never committed) that walks fields[]/documents[], required/ requiredWhen (evaluating the shared condition grammar's field/ equals/notEquals/in/greaterThan(OrEqual)/lessThan(OrEqual)/all/ any/not shape), type, and validation (enum/minimum/maximum/ minLength/maxLength/pattern), plus an unknown-field check. It reads fixtures in this registry's established flat-field-plus-documents-array shape (matching lk/dmt's and rs/mfa's own fixture format — top-level field keys, documents: [{id, provided}, ...]), not the {fields: {...}}-nested shape a first draft of this schema's fixtures mistakenly used before being corrected to match precedent. All ten fixtures (two valid, eight mutation controls) were run against it; both valid fixtures returned [] and every mutation control returned an array of exactly one error string, matching the results above.

The registry's zero-dependency structural validator and its ajv-based meta-schema validator were both run against this new schema individually and pass:

``` $ node tools/validate.mjs registry/lk/imm/application-for-a-entry-visa/1.0.0/schema.json 1/1 document(s) passed.

$ node tools/validate-ajv.mjs registry/lk/imm/application-for-a-entry-visa/1.0.0/schema.json 1/1 document(s) validated against the meta-schema (ajv 2020-12). ```

The scratch pdfjs-dist/canvas install used for PDF rendering and the scratch conformance checker were both done in an isolated /tmp scratch directory, never inside tools/ or tools/govschema-client/. Running node tools/validate-ajv.mjs itself required a one-time npm ci --include=dev inside tools/ (its ajv/ajv-formats devDependencies were not yet installed in this worktree) — this registry's documented "local NODE_ENV=production makes npm ci skip ajv" gotcha.

tools/govschema-client/registry-index.json was regenerated via npm run build-index inside tools/govschema-client/.

Field-count note

61 fields is toward the higher end of this registry's typical range for a Visa-vertical form, reflecting Form B's genuine breadth as a general- purpose entry-visa application covering tourist, resident, and "other purpose" pathways in one instrument (unlike, e.g., a single-purpose transit or tourist-only visa form). This tracks GOV-2781's own disclosed estimate ("~45-55 fields across 4 applicant-facing pages") — modestly higher once every printed sub-item (spouse passport continuation, business fax/email, duplicate contact rows, last-visa-obtained sub-block) was counted individually; disclosed here rather than trimmed to fit the earlier estimate.

Scope and jurisdiction notes

  • Opens Sri Lanka's Visa vertical (4 of 6). Business Formation and Taxes remain open: Taxes is a confirmed dead end (per GOV-2781: e-filing-mandatory, no paper exception found); Business Formation has only a provincial (Western Province BNR-01), not national, candidate — see GOV-2781's own VERIFICATION.md and CATALOG.md's "Known Gaps & Opportunities" for the full disclosed record.
  • jurisdiction.level is national — the Department of Immigration & Emigration is Sri Lanka's national visa-issuing authority; unlike lk/dmt's Provincial-Council-administered licensing, there is no sub-national issuing-authority wrinkle here.
  • process.type is application, matching the form's own printed title ("APPLICATION FOR A ENTRY VISA").
  • process.language is en — the source PDF is monolingual English (unlike lk/dmt's/lk/drp's trilingual Sinhala/Tamil/English forms), consistent with this being the Department's general-purpose form for foreign-national applicants rather than a domestic-facing one.

Re-verification

Per the practice's cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-13 (6 months). A future review should prioritize: (1) re-screening Business Formation if the Registrar of Companies (DRC) ever publishes a national incorporation form outside the eROC portal, or revisiting the provincial BNR-01 business-name-registration candidate as a lower-bar alternative; (2) re-screening Taxes if IRD ever publishes a paper-filing exception; (3) confirming whether a documents-required checklist for Form B is published elsewhere (e.g. by individual overseas missions) that would let documents[] grow beyond the single photograph requirement modeled here.

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

  • 1.0.0 draft latest this page has verification record schema.json

Independent and non-affiliated

GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by Department of Immigration & Emigration, Sri Lanka or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.