As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check which documents you need for a UK visa.

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 visa checker at https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa and record the route it suggests for your nationality, purpose and intended stay.
   2. Open the route page and its document or evidence guidance on GOV.UK, then gather your passport details, travel dates, finances, sponsor details and any information about previous UK immigration history.
   3. Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and replace every bracketed slot with your own facts, including the route suggested by the GOV.UK checker.
   4. Paste the relevant GOV.UK links or the text of the official checklist into the same chat and ask the model to compare its table against those sources rather than filling gaps from memory.
   5. Check every mandatory and conditional item in the model's table against the linked GOV.UK page, including translation, certification, validity and sponsor requirements, and mark any item the official page does not support.
   6. Use the official application page and the instructions from your visa application centre to assemble and submit only the evidence that applies to your route; ask a solicitor or regulated immigration adviser about refusals, overstays, criminal convictions or unclear routes.

   Prompt

   Help me check the documents I may need for a UK visa application. This is not professional advice.
   
   Use only current official GOV.UK information and the relevant official application instructions available as at 2026-08-13. Do not rely on memory, make up requirements or treat a general checklist as definitive. Link to the exact GOV.UK page supporting each requirement.
   
   My details:
   - Nationality or nationalities: [insert]
   - Country where I am applying: [insert]
   - Purpose of travel: [insert]
   - Intended length of stay: [insert]
   - Possible visa route, if known: [insert]
   - Planned travel date: [insert]
   - Previous UK immigration history, refusals or overstays: [insert]
   - Relevant circumstances, such as sponsorship, study, work, family relationship, children or criminal convictions: [insert]
   
   First, state whether the visa route is clear. If it is not clear, ask only the questions needed to identify the likely route and do not guess. Then produce a table with these columns: document or evidence, who needs to provide it, whether it appears mandatory or conditional, what it must show, translation or certification points, and the exact official source. Separate documents that are explicitly required from documents that may support the application. Mark anything that depends on my individual circumstances or has changed since the source was published. End with a short list of missing facts I must confirm and a final instruction to check the official application checklist and any instructions from the visa application centre before submitting. Do not tell me that I will qualify for the visa and do not draft false or exaggerated evidence.

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