Visa application / Demande de visa
A self-check for your own paperwork. We read your documents the way a consular officer will, show you what does not add up, and help you write and practise. You decide what to do about it.
Free to start. No card required.
Delete any document or application whenever you want. Ask us to erase the account and we do it within a month.
What this is / Ce que c'est
VisaLens is a document preparation and self-check tool. It shows you the facts about your own file and what the published rules say, with a link to the page that says it. You stay the author of every document and you make every decision.
What it does
What it does not do
VisaLens is not a law firm and not a regulated immigration adviser. It does not provide immigration advice and it does not guarantee any decision. You are responsible for your own application, you should verify every requirement against the official source, and for advice about your own circumstances you should consult a licensed adviser. Where you need one, we will point you at your regulator’s own register.
The odds / Les chances
Not because the applicants were unqualified. Because the file was incomplete, inconsistent, or wrong at a glance.
57%
Nigeria to US visitor
B1/B2 · FY2025
US Department of State
64%
Africa to Canada study
Study permit · 2025
IRCC
45%
Africa to Schengen
Type C · 2024
Henley & Partners / LAGO Collective
Refused applicants lose the fee as well as the trip. A Schengen application costs €90 whatever the answer.
How it works / Procédure
The same document, before and after. Nothing is rewritten for you; you are told what to change.
01
Passport, statements, letters. A PDF, a screenshot, or a photo taken on your phone.
02
Each document is checked against the published requirements of the post you are applying to, and against every other document in your file.
03
Which document, from whom, saying what. Re-upload and watch the score move.
Findings / Constatations
Not “provide additional documentation”. An instruction you can act on this afternoon.
Sample report / rapport
Your balance is €4,100 short of the threshold
Schengen Type C for France wants €120 a day for the length of stay. Your statement covers 26 days of a 31 day trip.
A deposit of €9,000 arrived eleven days ago
Unexplained recent deposits read as borrowed funds. Ask the sender for a signed gift letter and add the source account.
Passport validity clears the six month rule
Expires 14 March 2029, which is well past the three months beyond departure this post requires.
An illustration of what a finding looks like, not anyone’s file and not current guidance. Thresholds and fees change constantly. In the product every requirement is shown with the official page it comes from and the date we last checked it, and you confirm it there.
Coverage / Couverture
The checklist, the checks and the letters all change with the corridor. A visitor visa to Canada and a spouse visa to the UK are judged on different things, and are treated here as different things.
Each route carries its own document list, its own weighting for the readiness score, and its own idea of what an officer is looking for. A ties-to-home statement matters enormously on a visitor application and barely at all on an intra-company transfer, and the software knows the difference.
Readiness / État du dossier
One number for the state of your file, weighted for the route you are actually on. It moves the moment you fix something, so you can see whether the thing you just did mattered.
It is a measure of the paperwork, not a prediction of the decision. Nobody can price an officer’s judgement, and any product that offers to is selling you a number it invented.
Two things are holding this down
An unexplained deposit in your statement, and a missing employment letter. Both are fixable this week.
3 documents still missing
A critical finding is holding this down
One date disagrees with your itinerary
No employment letter yet
No issues found
Assistant / Assistant
Not a chatbot with a visa personality. It answers from the documents you uploaded, the corridor you are applying on and the findings already sitting against your application.
Why is my financial section scoring so badly?
Two things, and the second is the one that gets applications refused.
Your Zenith Bank statement closes at NGN 18,420,000, which clears the maintenance requirement comfortably. But NGN 9,000,000 of it arrived on 2 February, eleven days before the statement was issued. An officer reads a large recent deposit as borrowed money shown for the application.
Ask your uncle for a signed letter confirming the transfer was a gift, and add his own statement showing the money leaving his account. I can draft that letter from the details already in your file.
Instant
A quick answer about one thing. Which document, what is wrong, what to do.
Expert
A full pass across every document at once, looking for the contradictions between them.
Vision
Reads a scan or a phone photograph, including documents that carry no selectable text.
Research
Grounds the answer in the published requirement list for your exact corridor.
Whatever it opens beside the conversation, a document, the findings list, the requirement checklist, stays on screen while you keep talking to it.
The editor / Rédaction
Drafted from the documents already in your file, so your name, your address, your course, your sponsor and your figures are in the first version. Then edited, signed and exported without leaving the application.
Emeka Obi
12 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos
14 August 2026
The Entry Clearance Officer
UK Visas and Immigration
Sponsorship for Ngozi Adeyemi, CAS E4G8H2K9L1
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to confirm that I will be funding my niece’s MSc in Financial Management at the University of Manchester. Her course begins on 21 September 2026.
I have already paid the GBP 6,000 deposit against tuition of GBP 28,000, and I undertake to cover the balance and her living costs for the duration of the course.
Yours faithfully,
Emeka Obi
Signed in the app, and in the exported PDF
What it writes
Cover letter
Who you are, why you are travelling, how it is paid for, and when you come back.
Personal statement
The statement of purpose a student route asks for: course, motivation, plan afterwards.
Sponsor letter
Signed by whoever is funding the trip, stating the relationship and the amount.
Explanation letter
Addresses a previous refusal, a gap, an odd deposit, anything an officer will query.
Ties to home statement
The case that the applicant has reasons to return, with the evidence attached.
Invitation letter
Written by the host: who they are, who they are inviting, the dates, and who covers what.
And what it does to them
Interview / Entretien
A spoken conversation with an AI consular officer who knows which visa you are applying for and what is in your file. It asks what real officers ask, follows up when an answer is thin, and does not move on because you sounded confident.
Who is paying for your studies?
My uncle is covering everything. He has been saving for a while.
And how long has he been supporting you?
…
Your answer contradicts your bank statement
You said your uncle had been supporting you for two years. The statement in your file shows his first transfer in February this year. An officer with both in front of them will ask about it.
Try instead
“My uncle committed to funding the course in January and paid the deposit in February. Before that I was working and saving on my own salary, which is what the earlier part of the statement shows.”
Carry on afterwards in writing with something that has the whole transcript in front of it. Every unlocked application includes 75 minutes of voice practice, which is three or four full interviews, and text practice is unlimited.
Opportunities / Financements
Scholarships and sponsored programmes, read from the awarding bodies’ own pages, with the deadline and the eligible nationalities carried through onto every listing exactly as they were published.
We keep the list small on purpose and check it against the source rather than scraping everything in reach. You can compare any listing against your own profile, field by field, and see which part of your profile is the thing standing between you and an application. The programme decides who is eligible, not us.
Sources in the feed today
The Commonwealth Fellowships are for mid-career professionals and academic staff from eligible Commonwealth countries to undertake professional or academic development in the UK. This opportunity is aimed at those looking to enhance their skills and establish future collaborations.
Closes 25 August · United Kingdom
Commonwealth Startup Fellowships are designed for high-potential startups from low and middle income Commonwealth countries. The programme provides essential skills and a global network to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses successfully.
Closes 1 September · Ghana
Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships are for candidates from eligible lower and upper middle income Commonwealth countries to undertake full-time taught Master’s study at a UK university. These scholarships enable talented individuals to gain the knowledge and skills required for sustainable development.
Closes 20 October · United Kingdom
Pricing / Tarifs
You are already paying $524 for a UK student visa, or $90 for a Schengen visitor visa, and you do not get it back if you are refused. A consultant charges $500 to $2500 for one application, which most people applying simply cannot reach.
This is one payment for one application, for 90 days. No subscription, because you are not applying for a visa every month.
Refusal Reason Decoder
Paste a refusal letter and get it in plain English: what each ground actually means, what they looked at, and what usually fixes it. It will also tell you when the answer is a lawyer rather than a better letter.
Decode a refusal letterYour first document, read properly
Open an application and upload one document. You see the real findings on it straight away, with the published requirement each one is measured against and a link to the page it comes from.
Start an applicationNeither builds an application, a checklist or a readiness score. Those need the corridor, and the corridor is what you are buying below.
$39 once
Everything for one visa application, for 90 days.
$89 once
For a household applying together, or more than one route.
$149/month
For consultants and study-abroad agents handling volume.
When the 90 days end your documents and letters stay yours to read and download. Renewing reopens the work.
Questions / Questions
No, and nothing can. The decision belongs to a consular officer applying their own judgement to your case, and we never see it: you submit through the official channel yourself. What this does is show you the paperwork problems before they do: gaps, contradictions between documents, unexplained money, a photo that fails the spec. Always check the requirements on the official page for your post as well.
No. Choosing a route, ruling on eligibility and predicting an outcome are regulated activities in the UK, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, and VisaLens is a preparation tool rather than a licensed adviser. Ask either of those and we will say so plainly, link your regulator's own register so you can find somebody who can answer it, and then get on with everything we legitimately can: reading your documents, quoting the published requirement with its source, drafting the letters you write yourself, and running interview practice.
They are stored privately, keyed to your account, and nobody else can read them. Delete any single document or application from inside the product whenever you want, which removes the file and the text extracted from it together. To erase the whole account, email privacy@visalens.app and we action it within a month. We do not sell data and we do not share files with anyone.
There is nothing to tell. The letters are written from your own documents in your own details, and you edit and sign them yourself. What an officer sees is a well-prepared application, which is what a good consultant produces too.
Seventeen destinations across every major category: visit, study, work, family, business, investor, transit and permanent residence, from any nationality. The checklist and the checks change with the corridor, because a visitor visa to Canada and a spouse visa to the UK are judged on different things.
That is the case it was built for. A previous refusal has to be declared on the next application and is read alongside it, so the second attempt has to answer the first. Upload the refusal notice with the rest of your file and the assistant will work against what it actually says.
The Refusal Reason Decoder is free and needs no account: paste a refusal letter and it tells you in plain English what each ground means, what the officer was looking at, and when the answer is a licensed adviser rather than a better letter. Building an application, with its corridor checklist, readiness score, drafting and interview practice, is what you pay once for.
No. You pay once for one application and it stays open for 90 days, which is longer than most people need to prepare and submit. There is a bundle for households applying together, and a monthly plan for consultants handling client caseloads, because that is the one case where the work really does repeat every month.
Nothing disappears. Every document, letter and finding stays yours to read and download. What stops is new work: fresh analysis, new drafts and interview practice. Renewing that application reopens all of it, and the file is exactly where you left it.
Because $39 is an evening out in one place and most of a week's food in another. The product is identical everywhere, the price is adjusted for where you are, and it is shown in the currency you will actually be charged in so nothing changes at the card screen.
Why we built it / Pourquoi
Nobody can. The decision belongs to a consular officer and it takes in things no software sees.
What we can do is remove the preventable reasons for refusal: the missing letter, the deposit with no history, the two dates that disagree. That is the whole mechanism. There is nothing magic in it.
VisaLens is a document preparation and self-check tool. It is not a law firm and not a regulated immigration adviser, it does not give immigration advice, and it does not submit applications or receive decisions. For choosing a route, a question of eligibility, a prior refusal on misrepresentation grounds, an inadmissibility issue or an appeal, speak to a licensed adviser.