UK Visa Route Finder

The documents required depend on your visa type, but most UK visa applications require:

• Valid passport with blank pages for the visa.
• Proof of funds — bank statements showing you can support yourself or meet financial requirements.
• Supporting evidence — depending on your visa, this could include employment letters, relationship proof, accommodation details, or sponsor documents.
• Purpose of travel — invitation letters, business documents, or study confirmations as relevant.

Our tool asks you a few questions about your situation and generates a personalised document checklist tailored to your specific visa type and circumstances.

Each UK visa category has different rules set by UKVI. For example:

• Visit visas focus on ties to your home country and proof you'll return.
• Family visas require relationship evidence and financial thresholds.
• Work visas need sponsor details and employment documentation.
• Student visas require course confirmations and proof of funds.

Our route finder surfaces the documents typically required for the route you selected, alongside the published UKVI guidance for that route.

Use our free UK visa route finder. It takes a couple of minutes:

1. Select your visa type or use Find My Visa if you're unsure.
2. Answer a few questions about your circumstances, finances, and documents.
3. See which routes match your answers and get a tailored document checklist. Whether a specific route is right for your case is for a qualified adviser to assess.

No tool can guarantee approval — UKVI caseworkers make the final decision. However, many refusals happen not because applicants were ineligible, but because their UK visa documents were incomplete, inconsistent, or poorly presented.

Our free document checklist helps you gather the right paperwork, but checklists alone can't catch common problems such as:

• Bank statements that raise questions about unexplained transactions.
• Employment or financial evidence that doesn't meet UKVI's strict format requirements.
• Relationship documents that fail to show genuine ties clearly enough.

A professional document review or full application review by a regulated immigration solicitor helps prevent refusals by:

• Identifying weak spots in your supporting evidence.
• Ensuring every document meets UK visa requirements.
• Advising on how to strengthen your application before submission.
• Providing tailored letters to UKVI to support your case.

By combining your personalised checklist with expert review, you significantly increase your chances of a successful visa outcome.

Your checklist shows exactly what to prepare and why. Next steps:

• Gather documents and ensure they're consistent (names, dates, balances, translations if needed).
• Fix known risk points (e.g., unclear bank activity, weak ties, missing relationship proof).
• Optionally add a document review or application review for expert feedback before applying.

This process helps you submit a complete, coherent application the first time.

The tool currently supports the most common UK visa categories, with more being added regularly. If you're unsure which route fits your situation, use Find My Visa first — once matched, you'll follow the same quick route comparison, document screening, and instant checklist process.

If your inputs don't match a route's published criteria, the tool will highlight the specific areas where the published requirements differ from your answers — for example, financial evidence, relationship proof, or accommodation documents. Whether the route is realistically open in your case is for a qualified adviser to assess. This gives you a clear action plan for what to improve before reapplying.

By identifying problems early, you avoid wasting time and money on a weak application. You can also choose a professional document review to confirm what steps are needed to make your case stronger next time.

If you're unsure how to proceed after an ineligible result, you can also book a free consultation to speak with us.