As of 13 August 2026, AI can check entry requirements for your UK business trip.

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 GOV.UK's foreign travel advice for the destination and the destination country's official immigration website.
   2. Gather your nationality, passport type and expiry date, country of residence, travel dates, all transit airports and countries, accommodation details, and the exact meetings, conference, training or work activities planned.
   3. Paste those details into the prompt, excluding your passport number, scan, date of birth and other unnecessary identity information.
   4. Ask the chatbot to use current official pages and to provide a source link beside every requirement, then save the resulting checklist and links.
   5. Compare each visa, electronic authorisation, passport, transit and permitted-activity conclusion with the linked official pages and GOV.UK as at 2026-08-13.
   6. Use the official application site or your employer's travel process to obtain any required authorisation, and ask the destination embassy, consulate, carrier or a regulated UK immigration adviser about any unresolved exception before booking or travelling.

   Prompt

   Check the entry requirements for this UK business trip using current official sources only, prioritising GOV.UK, the destination country's government or immigration authority, and official transit-country sources. Do not rely on travel blogs, search-result snippets or agents. If you cannot access live web pages, say so clearly and do not present old information as current.
   
   Traveller details:
   - Nationality: [nationality]
   - Passport type: [ordinary, diplomatic or other]
   - Country of residence: [country]
   - Passport expiry date: [date]
   - Destination country and cities: [details]
   - Transit countries and airports, including whether I will pass immigration: [details]
   - Arrival date and departure date: [dates]
   - Purpose: business meetings, conference, training, paid work or other: [details]
   - Activities at the destination: [exact activities]
   - Employer or host country: [country]
   - Previous visa, residence permit or travel authorisation for this destination: [details or none]
   
   Return:
   1. Whether I need a visa, electronic travel authorisation, entry permit or other approval before travel.
   2. The maximum permitted stay and whether my activities are allowed as described.
   3. Passport-validity, blank-page, proof-of-funds, accommodation, return-ticket, insurance and vaccination requirements, stating when a requirement does not apply.
   4. Separate requirements for every transit country.
   5. A document and action checklist with deadlines where an official source gives one.
   6. A table with each conclusion, the official source link, the page title and the date checked, which must be 2026-08-13.
   7. Any uncertainty, exception or fact you cannot verify.
   
   Do not guess, generalise from another nationality, or tell me that visa-free means work is permitted. End with the exact questions I must ask the destination embassy, consulate, carrier or a regulated UK immigration adviser if any material point remains unclear. This is not professional advice.

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