As of 13 August 2026, AI can estimate your total UK visa costs.

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 relevant visa route and fee pages on GOV.UK, then record the route name, application location and the date shown for each fee.
   2. Gather the applicant numbers, ages, intended permission length, dependants, current immigration status and any possible exemptions or discounts.
   3. Paste those facts and the GOV.UK page links or copied fee text into a chatbot with the prompt above.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce separate mandatory, optional and personal-cost totals, with an explanation of every calculation.
   5. Compare every fee, surcharge, exemption and service choice in the answer with the current GOV.UK pages, correct the inputs, and recalculate any item that does not match.
   6. Keep the checked total alongside a contingency for costs the official pages identify as route-specific, and ask an immigration solicitor about eligibility or a serious, unusual case before applying.

   Prompt

   Estimate the total cost of my UK visa application using only current information from GOV.UK pages that you can identify and cite. Treat 2026-08-13 as the checking date, quote the relevant page titles and links, and do not invent or guess any fee.
   
   My details:
   - Visa route: [insert route, if known]
   - Applying from: [country]
   - Nationality or nationalities: [insert]
   - Number of adult applicants: [number]
   - Number of child applicants: [number]
   - Intended length of permission: [insert]
   - Dependants: [details or none]
   - Need priority or faster processing: [yes, no or unsure]
   - Need a biometric appointment, translation, TB test or other paid service: [details or unsure]
   - Any known fee exemption or discount: [details or unsure]
   
   Return:
   1. A table of every likely cost in pounds, including the visa application fee, Immigration Health Surcharge if applicable, biometric or appointment charges, priority services, tests, translations, travel and other route-specific costs.
   2. Separate mandatory charges from optional or personal costs.
   3. Show the calculation for each applicant and the combined total.
   4. Give a low, likely and high planning total only where the difference is based on clearly stated choices, not guesses.
   5. Mark every item that depends on an unresolved fact or must be confirmed on GOV.UK.
   6. Do not decide which visa route I qualify for, give legal advice, or present an estimate as the amount payable. If the route or eligibility is uncertain, tell me to confirm it with GOV.UK or an immigration solicitor.

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