UK Visitor Visas
For the moments that bring you together.
Personal support with your UK Visitor visa application, including your visit plans, funding and supporting evidence.
Fixed Professional Fee £500 / applicationPer person. Government and third-party charges are separate.
A visit may mean time with family, an important occasion or a new experience. We help you present your plans, funding and supporting evidence clearly. The advice and checklist are tailored to your visit and circumstances.
UK visitor visa application support from advisers in Barking, east London. We help present your visit plans, finances and personal circumstances clearly, and prepare the application for your review before submission.
Who this service is for
- Tourists, and people visiting family or friends
- Business visitors attending meetings, conferences or events
- People travelling for private medical treatment
- Parents visiting a child who is studying in the UK
Basic eligibility
This is a general guide only. A professional case review is needed to assess your circumstances; a free next-step call explains how to begin.
- A genuine intention to visit, for a purpose the Rules permit
- You intend to leave the UK at the end of your visit
- You can meet your own costs during the visit
- You meet the requirements that apply to your type of visit
Documents typically required
- Your passport and your travel history
- Evidence of your finances and your ties to your home country
- Details of your trip, and of any UK host
- Supporting letters, where they apply
Before your first discussion: Set out your proposed travel dates, where you will stay and who will pay for the visit. Bring details of your work or other commitments at home, any UK host and previous visa decisions. The checklist is tailored to your reason for visiting.
How the process works
An initial case review to assess your visitor application; we confirm the agreed service scope before professional work begins
A checklist tailored to your case
Preparation of your application and the covering letter that supports it
Your approval before we submit
Support with submission, plus ongoing updates
What the caseworker is really deciding
On paper you must show four things. That you will leave the UK at the end of your visit. That you can support and house yourself without working or claiming public funds. That you can pay for the trip, including the journey home. And that you are not using repeated visits to live here in practice.
In reality all four collapse into one question. Does this person intend to go home.
Nobody can prove an intention directly, so the caseworker reads it from your circumstances. What is waiting for you at home, whether that is a job, a business, a tenancy, a property, children, studies, or a parent you care for. Whether your finances make sense next to the trip you have described. Whether your account of the visit is specific or vague.
The strongest visitor applications answer that question before it is asked, in a covering letter that connects the evidence together instead of leaving a stranger to assemble it. That connecting work is most of what you would be paying us for.
Where visitor applications really go wrong
Visitor applications depend on eligibility and how the case is put together.
The same principle applies here as everywhere else in the system: the format and coherence of your evidence decides the outcome. Money that genuinely exists gets discounted because it appeared in the account three days before you applied with nothing to explain it. Support that is genuinely available gets ignored because the person offering it never evidenced their own status or income.
- Thin evidence of ties to your own country. One employment letter is weak. Employment, property, family responsibilities and ongoing commitments taken together are strong.
- Finances that do not match the plan. A modest income beside an expensive itinerary, with nothing saying who is paying, can leave the application unsupported.
- Unexplained large deposits shortly before you apply. If a relative gave you the money, say so and evidence it. Silence looks worse than the truth.
- A UK host whose position is not evidenced, including their immigration status, their income, their address and their relationship to you.
- Immigration history or an overstay that was not disclosed. The Home Office may already know. Leaving it out turns a difficulty into a question about your honesty.
- A pattern of long, frequent visits that begins to look like living here rather than visiting.
Nobody will contact you to clear up a doubt. The doubt can leave the application unsupported.
What it costs
A visitor application carries a smaller Home Office fee than most routes, so it is fair to ask whether paying for professional help makes sense at all. We would rather you asked that out loud.
Whether professional help is worthwhile depends on your case. If your ties are strong, your finances are clear and your plans are straightforward, we will tell you so at the consultation. Where the circumstances need more explanation, we help you build a clear and complete application.
Home Office fees, biometrics and any translation costs are separate from our fee and are set by other people. We put the full list in writing before you decide. Our fees page has the detail.
What we do, and what we cannot do
We look at your circumstances honestly first. If we take the case on, we build the application around the question the caseworker is actually asking. We gather the evidence of your ties, make sure the financial picture is coherent and explained, and write a covering letter that walks the caseworker through it in order.
We cannot promise an outcome. We only provide services within our authorised scope and focus on preparing a clear application before it is submitted.
We are regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority, and you can check that on the public register before you speak to us. It is worth doing for any adviser you consider. Giving immigration advice in the UK without authorisation is a criminal offence, and if the person you paid is not on that register, you cannot get your money back.
Choose your next step
Planning to join relatives for a longer stay? Read our family visa service or spouse and partner visa service and discuss the appropriate route with an adviser.
Our preliminary eligibility checker can help you organise your questions; it does not replace an adviser’s assessment. Read our professional fees and use the visa cost calculator for an estimate of separate government charges. When you are ready, start your application and save your details securely for review.
Prepare your next conversation
Explore visitor visa guidance, organise your questions and understand the separate charges before deciding how to proceed. A guide or tool result does not establish eligibility.
Frequently asked questions
Usually up to six months per visit. Longer-validity visas exist that let you come and go over several years, but each individual stay is still limited, and you must not use repeated visits to live here.
No. You cannot take a job or do paid work for a UK organisation. A defined list of business activities is permitted, such as meetings, negotiations, conferences and some training, but that is not the same as working, and the line matters.
Yes. A relative or friend here can fund your visit and host you. Their side has to be evidenced properly though: who they are, their immigration status, their income, their address, and their relationship to you. A short letter on its own rarely carries it.
Show a coherent purpose for the trip, the funds available, and the commitments that support your plans to leave the UK at the end of the visit. We will tell you what evidence is useful for your circumstances.
No. Marrying or forming a civil partnership in the UK needs a Marriage Visitor visa or a family route, not a standard visitor visa. If your plan is to marry and then stay, look at the spouse and partner route instead.
Only in limited circumstances, and the total stay generally cannot go beyond six months. Wanting to stay longer is not by itself a reason, and overstaying causes far more damage than it solves.
The rules do not require it, but it is sensible. If you are coming for private medical treatment, evidence of how that treatment will be paid for is important and is looked at closely.
Begin your visitor visa application
Start your application securely, or book a free 10-minute next-step call to ask about our service first.