Can ChatGPT tell me if I qualify for a UK Skilled Worker visa?

It can make a preliminary checklist from your facts and compare basic points with GOV.UK guidance. It cannot give a binding decision or take responsibility for your application, so an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser should check a serious or complicated case.

What information does AI need to check a Skilled Worker visa?

Give it your nationality, current immigration status, job duties, employer, sponsor information, salary, hours, English-language evidence, maintenance funds, dependants and immigration history. Do not paste passport numbers, passwords or other unnecessary personal identifiers.

Is it safe to use AI for a Skilled Worker visa application?

It is useful for organising documents and finding missing questions, but it is not professional advice. A wrong answer can contribute to refusal or an immigration problem, so check the result against GOV.UK and use an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser for material risks.

Do I need an immigration solicitor for a Skilled Worker visa?

You may be able to check a straightforward case against GOV.UK yourself, but AI cannot assess every legal or factual complication. Get an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser involved if you have a refusal, overstaying, criminal conviction, unusual immigration history or uncertainty about your route.

PARTLY

As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check if you qualify for a UK Skilled Worker visa.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

15 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsA purpose-built document tool such as PDF.ai can extract information from your supporting PDFs, but no comparable alternative price is provided here.

If this goes wrong: you rely on an incorrect eligibility assessment, submit an unsuitable application or miss a requirement, and face refusal, financial loss or an immigration problem.

What to actually do

Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Use a tool built for this
Second choice
Do it yourself
The distant third
A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
1. Open the current Skilled Worker visa guidance on GOV.UK and save the relevant pages or links for checking the chatbot's references.
2. Gather your passport nationality, current location and immigration status, job offer or contract, job duties, salary, hours, employer details and any sponsor or certificate of sponsorship information.
3. Gather evidence about English-language ability, maintenance funds, dependants, previous UK applications, refusals, overstaying, convictions and other relevant immigration history, removing passport numbers and unrelated personal identifiers.
4. Paste the prompt and your facts into a chatbot, then answer its follow-up questions without asking it to guess missing information.
5. Compare each item marked as confirmed against the GOV.UK pages you opened, including the job, sponsor, salary, English-language and immigration-history requirements.
6. Send the checklist, your documents and any refusal, overstaying, criminal or unusual immigration-history details to an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser before submitting an application.
Prompt
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Help me make a preliminary checklist for whether I may qualify for a UK Skilled Worker visa. This is not professional advice and you must not give a definitive legal conclusion. Use only the current GOV.UK guidance that I provide or that you can identify, and clearly separate confirmed requirements, likely requirements, missing information and points that need an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser. Do not invent occupation codes, salary thresholds, sponsor details, visa history, exemptions or dates. Ask concise follow-up questions before assessing anything. Consider my nationality, current location and immigration status, age, job title and duties, occupation code if known, employer and sponsor status, certificate of sponsorship if available, salary and weekly hours, English-language evidence, maintenance funds, dependants, previous UK immigration history, criminal convictions and any overstaying or refusals. Tell me which documents I should obtain and which statements I must verify on GOV.UK. Do not ask me to paste passport numbers, passwords or unnecessary personal identifiers. My information is: [paste your facts here].
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Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
One pick for this task
PDF.ai
PDF.ai can extract and question the contents of contracts, letters and other supporting PDFs, which helps organise evidence before a professional checks the visa position.

What it gets wrong

AI cannot make the Home Office decision or guarantee that your job, sponsor and circumstances meet the current route requirements.
AI cannot reliably interpret unusual immigration histories, previous refusals, overstaying, criminal convictions or changes of status without specialist judgement.
AI cannot confirm that an employer is currently able to sponsor you or that the information in your documents is genuine and consistent.
AI cannot take responsibility for the application, its declarations or the consequences of a refusal.
AI cannot replace regulated immigration advice where a serious or complicated case needs a professional.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, regulated advice and context depth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

Axis	Score (0–2)
Output	2
Inputs	1
Verification	1
Liability	0
Effort delta	1
Total	5 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT tell me if I qualify for a UK Skilled Worker visa?: It can make a preliminary checklist from your facts and compare basic points with GOV.UK guidance. It cannot give a binding decision or take responsibility for your application, so an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser should check a serious or complicated case.
What information does AI need to check a Skilled Worker visa?: Give it your nationality, current immigration status, job duties, employer, sponsor information, salary, hours, English-language evidence, maintenance funds, dependants and immigration history. Do not paste passport numbers, passwords or other unnecessary personal identifiers.
Is it safe to use AI for a Skilled Worker visa application?: It is useful for organising documents and finding missing questions, but it is not professional advice. A wrong answer can contribute to refusal or an immigration problem, so check the result against GOV.UK and use an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser for material risks.
Do I need an immigration solicitor for a Skilled Worker visa?: You may be able to check a straightforward case against GOV.UK yourself, but AI cannot assess every legal or factual complication. Get an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser involved if you have a refusal, overstaying, criminal conviction, unusual immigration history or uncertainty about your route.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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