As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly find out which visa you need for a business trip.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   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 and entry-requirements pages and the destination country's official immigration or embassy website.
   2. Gather your passport nationality, country of residence, passport expiry date, existing visas or permits, travel dates and every country where you will enter or transit.
   3. Write down the exact business activities, including meetings, conferences, training, negotiations, site visits, installation, hands-on work and services for a local company.
   4. Paste those facts into the prompt and ask the chatbot to use only current official sources with URLs and page titles.
   5. Open each cited official page and compare its nationality, purpose, duration, transit and work-activity rules with the drafted answer.
   6. Contact the relevant immigration authority, your employer's travel team or a UK immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser if the official pages do not clearly cover your activities or personal circumstances.
   7. Save the confirmed permission type, application link and required documents, then apply through the official channel before booking or travelling.

   Prompt

   Work out what immigration permission I may need for this business trip, but do not make a final decision for me and do not guess.
   
   Use only current official sources, preferably GOV.UK and the destination country's official immigration or embassy website. Give the URL and page title for every important claim, and state that the information was checked on 2026-08-13. Distinguish clearly between a visa, visa waiver, electronic travel authorisation, entry permit and permission to work. If an official source is unavailable or contradictory, say so.
   
   My details:
   - Passport nationality or nationalities: [nationality]
   - Country of residence and immigration status there: [details]
   - Passport expiry date: [date]
   - Destination country or countries: [countries]
   - Entry date and departure date: [dates]
   - Transit countries and whether I will leave the airport: [details]
   - Purpose of the trip: [meetings, conference, training, negotiations, site visit or other]
   - Activities I will carry out in each country: [details]
   - Whether I will do paid or hands-on work, provide services, install equipment or work for a local entity: [yes/no and details]
   - Who will pay me and where my employer is based: [details]
   - Number of previous visits or time already spent there in the relevant period: [details]
   - Any existing visas, residence permits or travel authorisations: [details]
   - Any criminal convictions, previous refusals or immigration issues that may be relevant: [details or prefer not to say]
   
   Return:
   1. The missing facts that could change the answer.
   2. A country-by-country table with the likely permission, whether an application is needed before travel, permitted business activities, maximum stay if the official source states it, passport and document requirements, processing considerations if officially stated, and the official source URLs.
   3. A separate list of activities that may require work authorisation rather than ordinary business visitor permission.
   4. A final section titled "What I must confirm before booking" containing only checks I can make on the relevant official websites or with the relevant immigration authority.
   5. Say plainly when the case needs advice from a UK immigration solicitor or regulated immigration adviser. This is not professional advice.

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

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

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