As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check your passport validity for UK travel.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. 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 GOV.UK pages for entering the UK, checking visa requirements and checking passport or travel-document requirements.
   2. Gather your nationality, country of residence, travel purpose, planned arrival and departure dates, route, passport type, passport expiry date, passport damage status and any existing UK immigration permission.
   3. Do not upload a passport photograph or share its number, machine-readable zone or other unnecessary personal data; enter only the relevant dates and circumstances into the prompt.
   4. Paste the prompt and your details into a chatbot, then save the GOV.UK links and the model's list of assumptions and missing information.
   5. Compare the passport assessment against the passport's physical expiry and condition, and compare the visa or electronic-permission assessment against the linked GOV.UK checker for your nationality and purpose.
   6. Use the official GOV.UK result and any required application or carrier check before booking or travelling; ask an immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser about an exception, refusal, complex route or previous immigration problem.

   Prompt

   Help me check whether I have the documents needed to travel to the UK. Do not give a definitive legal or immigration decision. Use only current GOV.UK information and provide the exact GOV.UK links used; if you cannot access current sources, say so and stop short of a conclusion.
   
   My details:
   - Nationality or nationalities: [insert]
   - Country where I live: [insert]
   - Purpose of travel: [tourism, visiting family, business, study, transit or other]
   - Planned arrival date: [insert]
   - Planned length of stay: [insert]
   - Passport type: [ordinary, diplomatic or other]
   - Passport expiry date: [insert]
   - Passport has damage: [yes or no]
   - Previous UK immigration status, visa or permission, if any: [insert or none]
   - Countries I will travel through before the UK: [insert or none]
   
   Separate the answer into: 1) whether the passport itself appears usable for this journey, 2) whether I may need a visa or electronic travel permission, 3) questions the passport details cannot answer, and 4) the official GOV.UK check I must complete. Do not ask me to upload or paste my passport number, photograph, machine-readable zone or other unnecessary personal data. State every assumption and flag any answer that depends on my nationality, route, immigration history or travel purpose.

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