As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot check whether you meet the UK good character requirement.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

   How to actually do it

   1. 1. Open the relevant nationality or immigration good character guidance on GOV.UK and save or copy the current text that applies to your route.
   2. 2. Gather your application route, immigration records, police or court documents, dates, outcomes, tax or financial records and any previous applications or refusals.
   3. 3. Remove passport numbers, National Insurance numbers, full addresses and other unnecessary identifiers, then put the remaining facts into a dated timeline.
   4. 4. Paste the prompt and the relevant GOV.UK guidance into a chatbot, replacing each bracketed slot with your facts and marking anything you do not know as unknown.
   5. 5. Compare every issue and quotation in the response with the GOV.UK guidance you pasted, and delete any conclusion that is not supported by that text or your documents.
   6. 6. Send the timeline, documents and the chatbot's list of unresolved issues to an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser before submitting an application if there is a conviction, deception allegation, refusal, breach or other serious concern.

   Prompt

   I want a preliminary review of whether my facts raise issues under the UK good character requirement. This is not professional advice and must not be treated as a decision on whether I will be granted status.
   
   First identify the application or route: [naturalisation, registration, or other route]. Use only the current GOV.UK good character guidance that I paste below, and quote or point to the relevant section for each conclusion. Do not rely on memory, guess missing rules, or state that I meet or fail the requirement.
   
   My facts:
   - Application or route: [insert]
   - Relevant residence and immigration history: [insert]
   - Convictions, cautions, warnings, arrests or pending matters, including dates and outcomes: [insert]
   - Civil penalties, tax issues, bankruptcy or financial matters: [insert]
   - False statements, document issues or breaches of immigration conditions: [insert]
   - Any other potentially relevant conduct: [insert]
   - Evidence I have: [insert]
   - Missing or uncertain information: [insert]
   
   The pasted guidance is:
   [ paste the relevant current GOV.UK guidance here ]
   
   Return four sections: (1) a factual timeline using only my information, (2) each possible good character issue with the exact guidance passage supporting it, (3) missing facts or documents that could change the assessment, and (4) questions to take to an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser. Separate confirmed facts from assumptions, flag contradictions, and do not invent dates, offences, explanations or outcomes. Tell me which parts need professional advice rather than giving a final eligibility answer. Redact passport numbers, National Insurance numbers, addresses and other unnecessary identifying information before analysing.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.