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

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, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the official GOV.UK Student visa page at https://www.gov.uk/student-visa and note the current requirements and linked guidance pages.
   2. Gather your passport details, current immigration status, course and sponsor information, CAS information if available, fee payment records, financial evidence, English language evidence and details of any previous UK immigration decisions.
   3. Add details of dependants, convictions, overstaying, refusals, cancellations and any unusual personal circumstances, because these can change the assessment.
   4. Paste the prompt into a chatbot and replace every bracketed slot with your own facts, leaving a slot marked as unknown rather than guessing.
   5. Compare each claimed satisfied requirement with the relevant GOV.UK page and mark any statement that relies on an exception, interpretation or document assessment.
   6. Send the full fact pattern and the flagged questions to an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser before relying on the assessment or submitting an application.

   Prompt

   Act as a cautious UK immigration information assistant, not a decision-maker. Check whether the facts below appear to fit the current UK Student visa requirements by using the official GOV.UK Student visa guidance at https://www.gov.uk/student-visa and any directly relevant GOV.UK pages. Treat the rules available on 2026-08-13 as the reference point and identify the page and section supporting each important conclusion.
   
   Do not give professional advice, invent facts, assume missing information, or say that I qualify with certainty. Separate: (1) requirements that appear satisfied, (2) requirements that appear unmet, (3) facts or documents still missing, and (4) issues that need an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser. Explain what evidence would normally be relevant without claiming that evidence proves eligibility. Flag any issue involving previous refusals, overstaying, criminality, financial evidence, dependants, sponsorship, English language evidence, nationality, course eligibility or immigration status for professional checking. End with a short list of questions I should ask a regulated adviser and a checklist of the official GOV.UK pages I should read.
   
   My details:
   - Nationality or nationalities: [insert]
   - Where I am applying from: [insert]
   - Current UK immigration status, if any: [insert]
   - Previous UK visa applications, refusals, cancellations or overstaying: [insert]
   - Course title, level and start date: [insert]
   - Education provider and sponsor licence or CAS details, if known: [insert]
   - Tuition fees and amount already paid: [insert]
   - Available funds and where they are held: [insert]
   - How long the funds have been held, if known: [insert]
   - English language evidence: [insert]
   - Dependants travelling with me: [insert]
   - Any criminal convictions, medical issues relevant to the application, or other unusual circumstances: [insert]
   - Documents I already have: [insert]
   
   If any answer is missing, ask focused follow-up questions before reaching a conclusion.

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