Answer a few questions and get the determination the UK government's own published rules give for your passport and your trip, free. Then take away an appointment-ready report for £3.99. Information, never advice.
Study, work, family or a visit — the checker reads the officially published rules for your situation and tells you where you stand in a minute. The full requirements, documents and fees for your route come packaged in your report.
For people 16 or over with an offer from a licensed student sponsor.
Check this route free →For people with an eligible job offer from a Home Office approved employer.
Check this route free →For qualified health and care professionals with an eligible job offer.
Check this route free →For staying in the UK to work after successfully completing a course.
Check this route free →For visiting the UK for tourism, family, business activities or short study.
Check this route free →For living with a spouse, partner, child or parent settled in the UK.
Check this route free →For young people from participating countries living and working in the UK.
Check this route free →Your passport, why you are coming, and for how long. No account, no personal details stored, about a minute of your time.
The checker runs the same openly published rules the UK government uses and gives you a clear answer in plain English: visa, ETA, or neither.
Download your appointment-ready PDF report for £3.99 — requirements, documents, fees and every official source — or join the waiting list for regulated advice.
Regulated immigration advice is billed by the hour, and much of a first appointment is often spent covering published requirements. VisaBuddy exists to take that part off the clock: learn what the rules say for a fraction of the cost, arrive prepared, and use your adviser for what only an adviser can do.
Find out in a minute whether you need a visa at all with the free checker, built on the government's own openly published rules and linked to the official pages for verification.
One printable, appointment-ready PDF: your visa-check result, the officially published requirements, a tick-box document checklist, process steps and every source link. Bring it to your adviser and spend the paid hour on advice, not information. Fair pricing: if your passport is from a lower-income country, your report is just £0.99 — applied automatically after your check.
Universities, colleges and employers: make VisaBuddy available to your students or staff. Write to [email protected].
VisaBuddy shows you what the rules say. It never advises on your own situation, because that requires a regulated professional. Culture & Clarity Ltd, the company behind VisaBuddy, is opening a UK immigration advice service so the same clarity can be applied to your individual case.
Subject to IAA Level 1 registration. You can always consult the official register of regulated immigration advisers.
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We'll only use your email to tell you when appointments open — no marketing, and you can ask to be removed at any time.
You don't have to pay: the visa checker is free, and always will be. The £3.99 buys one thing — your packaged, printable report: the check result, the requirements as officially published, a tick-box document checklist and every source link, in one document ready for your adviser appointment. An hour of regulated advice costs many times more; arriving with the information already organised makes that hour count.
Because £3.99 is not the same amount of money everywhere. VisaBuddy uses fair pricing: if your passport is from a lower-income country — including India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, the Philippines and around eighty others — your report costs £0.99. The price is applied automatically from your check; the report itself is identical for everyone.
No. VisaBuddy provides general information from publicly available government sources only. It never assesses your eligibility, never recommends a route, and never predicts outcomes. For advice on your own case, speak to a regulated immigration adviser.
Exclusively from officially published GOV.UK guidance, re-checked every week. Your report carries a link to the exact official page behind every requirement, so you can verify each line yourself.
Every route is automatically re-checked against the official GOV.UK pages each week, and each answer displays the date it was last checked. Requirements can change at any time, which is why the official links are always included.
Your answers stay in your browser and are never sent to a server or stored by VisaBuddy. Close the tab and they are gone.
VisaBuddy is a trading name of Culture & Clarity Ltd, a UK company, which is opening a regulated UK immigration advice service on 30 July 2026, subject to IAA Level 1 registration.
The same rules the government publishes, in a one-minute check. Free, nothing stored. Your appointment-ready report is £3.99 when you want it.
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