Visa application

Find the errors before the embassy does.

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.

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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.

How it works

  1. FORM / FORMULAIRE

    01

    You upload the file

    Passport, statements, letters. A PDF, a screenshot, or a phone photo.

  2. FORM / FORMULAIRE
    2

    02

    It reads every page

    Checked against the published requirements of your post, and against every other document in your file.

  3. FORM / FORMULAIRE

    03

    You fix what it finds

    Which document, from whom, saying what. Re-upload and watch the score move.

What this is

A self-check for your paperwork, not an adviser.

VisaLens is a document preparation and self-check tool. It shows you what is in your own file and what the published rules say, with a link to the page that says it.

What it does

  • Reads your documents and reports what is actually in them
  • Checks them against the published requirements, and links the source
  • Names the contradictions between one document and another
  • Writes the letters you are entitled to write yourself, from your own facts
  • Runs mock interviews and scores your answers

What it does not do

  • Choose which visa route you should apply on
  • Tell you whether you are eligible
  • Predict or guarantee any decision
  • Advise on appeals, refusals or your legal position
  • Submit anything to an embassy, or receive a decision from one

Not a law firm and not a regulated immigration adviser. Read the full terms.

The odds

Most refusals are preventable.

Not because the applicants were unqualified. Because the file was incomplete, inconsistent, or wrong at a glance. Refused applicants lose the fee as well as the trip: a Schengen application costs €90 whatever the answer.

  • 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

What's inside

Six things it does with your file.

Read the documents, score the gaps, answer questions about them, write the letters, practise the interview, and find the money.

Findings

Which document. From whom. Saying what.

Not “provide additional documentation”. An instruction you can act on this afternoon.

  • 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 the shape of a finding, not anyone’s file and not current guidance. Thresholds change constantly, so in the product every requirement arrives with the official page it came from and the date we last checked it.

Readiness

Know where you stand before you pay the fee.

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.

Document readinessUK Student
62Gaps remain

Two things are holding this down

An unexplained deposit in your statement, and a missing employment letter. Both are fixable this week.

  • Document completeness60

    3 documents still missing

  • Financial capability34

    A critical finding is holding this down

  • Cross-document alignment82

    One date disagrees with your itinerary

  • Ties to home, intent to return71

    No employment letter yet

  • Statement quality90

    No issues found

Assistant

It has read your file. Ask it anything.

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.

AssistantNigeria → UK Student

Why is my financial section scoring so badly?

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.

Draft the sponsor letterOpen my bank statement

  • 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.

The editor

The letters get written here, not in a Word document.

Drafted from the documents already in your file, so your name, your course, your sponsor and your figures are in the first version. Then edited, signed and exported without leaving the application.

Sponsor letterSaved · Signed · 284 words

Emeka Obi

12 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos

14 August 2026

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, beginning 21 September 2026. I have paid the GBP 6,000 deposit against tuition of GBP 28,000 and undertake to cover the balance and her living costs.

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

  • Edits arrive as tracked changes you accept or reject, one at a time.
  • A fact your file does not contain is marked in amber and blocks the download.
  • Sign by drawing, typing your name in a handwriting face, or uploading a photograph.
  • Export as PDF or Word, or file it onto the application so the score moves.

Interview

Say it out loud before you say it to an officer.

A spoken conversation with an AI consular officer who knows your visa and your file. It asks what real officers ask, and does not move on because you sounded confident.

Live transcript04:18
Officer

Who is paying for your studies?

You

My uncle is covering everything. He has been saving for a while.

Officer

And how long has he been supporting you?

You

…

Every unlocked application includes 12 minutes of voice practice, and text practice is unlimited.

After the callScored
68out of 100
  • Credibility
  • Financial clarity
  • Ties to home
  • Consistency with the file

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.”

Opportunities

The funded route you did not know you qualified for.

Scholarships and sponsored programmes, read from the awarding bodies’ own pages, with the deadline and the eligible nationalities carried through exactly as they were published. Compare any listing against your own profile field by field, and see which part of it stands between you and an application. The programme decides who is eligible, not us.

Opportunitieslast checked today

Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships

Fully funded

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

Commonwealth PhD Scholarships

Fully funded

Commonwealth PhD Scholarships are for applicants from least developed countries and vulnerable states for full-time doctoral study at a UK university. They are aimed at high-quality graduates who have the potential to undertake world-class research and become influential leaders in their home countries.

Closes 20 October · United Kingdom

Coverage

Whatever you are applying for, wherever you are applying from.

The checklist, the checks and the letters all change with the corridor.

17
Destinations
79
Visa routes
18
Visa categories
195
Nationalities
  • Tourist / Visitor
  • Business
  • Student / Academic
  • Vocational / Short course
  • Exchange / Research / Scholar
  • Work / Employment
  • Working holiday / Youth mobility
  • Digital nomad / Remote work
  • Investor / Entrepreneur
  • Family / Spouse / Partner
  • Transit
  • Medical treatment
  • Religious worker / Missionary
  • Journalist / Media
  • Diplomatic / Official
  • Immigration / Permanent residence
  • Refugee / Asylum / Humanitarian
  • Travel authorisation

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.

Pricing

Pay once, for the application you are making.

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.

Free, no account needed

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Refusal Reason Decoder

Paste a refusal letter and get it in plain English: what each ground means and what usually fixes it. It will also tell you when the answer is a lawyer rather than a better letter.

Decode a refusal letter

Your first document, read properly

Upload one document and see the real findings on it straight away, each with the published requirement it is measured against and a link to the page it comes from.

Start an application

Three free document reads before you buy anything

The same analysis the paid tiers run, then unlimited on any unlocked application.

Neither builds an application, a checklist or a readiness score. Those need the corridor, and the corridor is what you are buying below.

In every paid plan

Your corridor

  • The full document checklist for your exact corridor · 17 destinations, 79 visa routes, 18 categories, adjusted for where you apply from
  • The assistant, working from the documents you actually uploaded
  • Funded opportunities, checked against your nationality and profile

Reading your documents

  • Unlimited document analysis on an unlocked application · seven checks per document: completeness, authenticity markers, dates, financial pattern, cross-document contradictions, identity match, and rules specific to that post
  • Every finding with the fix and the points it returns to your score
  • Compare two documents field by field, with every disagreement marked
  • The whole review as a PDF, to work through away from the screen
  • Scanned and photographed documents read, not refused

Writing your letters

  • Unlimited drafting on an unlocked application · cover letter, personal statement, sponsor letter, explanation letter, ties statement, invitation letter
  • Every letter checked before you see it · 24 quality rules, including one that blocks any fact that is not in your documents
  • Tracked changes, version history, and a signature you draw, type or upload
  • Export as PDF or Word, and file it onto the checklist so the score moves

Interview practice

  • Unlimited written mock interviews · five officer personas, scoped to your corridor and your file
  • A scored report after every interview · a mark per answer, the red flags an officer would have caught, and a stronger version of each weak answer written from your own details
  • More practice time available whenever you run out · 10 minutes at a time

One application

Most chosen

₦36,000 once

Everything for one visa application, for 90 days.

  • One application · 90 days from purchase
  • 12 minutes of spoken interview practice with an AI officer · on this application
Unlock an application

Up to four applications

₦120,000 once

For a household applying together, or more than one route.

  • Four applications · 90 days from purchase, used whenever you like inside the window
  • A spouse, children, or one person trying two routes · one account, one payment
  • 40 minutes of spoken interview practice with an AI officer · pooled across all four applications
Unlock an application

Agent, 10 a month

₦300,000/month

For consultants and study-abroad agents handling volume.

  • 10 client applications a month · each one open for 90 days from the day you start it
  • Unused slots do not carry into the next month · the count resets on your renewal date
  • Billed monthly, cancel whenever · applications you have already opened keep their full 90 days
  • Priority support
  • 120 minutes of spoken interview practice with an AI officer · a month, pooled across your whole account
Start monthly

Agent, 25 a month

₦750,000/month

For a practice running a full caseload.

  • 25 client applications a month · each one open for 90 days from the day you start it
  • Unused slots do not carry into the next month · the count resets on your renewal date
  • Billed monthly, cancel whenever · applications you have already opened keep their full 90 days
  • Priority support
  • 120 minutes of spoken interview practice with an AI officer · a month, pooled across your whole account
Start monthly

Every price is in naira and is what your card is charged. Paying from outside Nigeria works the same way: your bank converts at its own rate and shows you what it came to.
When the 90 days end your documents and letters stay yours to read and download. Renewing reopens the work.

Questions

Before you sign up.

Does this guarantee my visa?

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.

Will you tell me which visa to apply for, or whether I qualify?

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.

What happens to my documents?

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.

Which countries and visa types does it cover?

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.

Is it useful if I have already been refused?

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.

Is it a subscription, and what happens after the 90 days?

No subscription. You pay once for one application and it stays open for 90 days, which is longer than most people need to prepare and submit. When the window ends nothing disappears: every document, letter and finding stays yours to read and download. What stops is new work, meaning fresh analysis, new drafts and interview practice, and renewing that application reopens all of it exactly where you left it. 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.

Why is the price in naira?

Because naira is what your card is actually charged, wherever you are. We settle in Nigeria, so ₦36,000 is the real price of one application rather than a dollar figure converted at this morning's rate and quietly different by the time it reaches your statement. Paying from outside Nigeria works normally: your own bank does the conversion and shows you what it came to. The product is identical everywhere and the free tools are open everywhere.

The founder of VisaLens at a desk with an application file and a passport.

Why we built it

We cannot promise you a visa.

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, and there is nothing magic in it.

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