Documents & Eligibility
Guidance on the documents and eligibility requirements behind a successful UK visa — supporting evidence, the application form, financial and English-language thresholds, accommodation, sponsorship letters, and the forms each route needs. These guides help you assemble a complete, well-evidenced application.
UK Visa Documents & Eligibility
A UK visa decision turns on the evidence. Beyond the application form, most routes test financial means, English ability, accommodation, and the genuineness of the relationship or sponsorship — and several need specific forms or certificates. Our guides set out the documents and eligibility thresholds across work, family, student, and settlement routes. Browse the documents and eligibility guides below.
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UK eVisa 2026: Access Your Online Immigration Status & Share Codes
An eVisa is an online record of the immigration status you already hold, reached through a UKVI account. It replaced the biometric residence permit…
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UK Visa English Requirements 2026: Complete CEFR Guide
The Immigration Rules set English requirements as CEFR levels, not as test scores. Appendix English Language says B1 or B2; it does not say…
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UK Visa Supporting Documents Checklist 2026: Complete Guide
Supporting documents win applications by answering the specific question a caseworker has to decide. GOV.UK is blunt about the limit: submitting the documents on…
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UK Visa Application Form 2026: Sample PDF Guide & How to Fill Online
Most of the UK visit application form is mechanical. Four or five free-text fields do the real work, and they are where applications are…
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ILR Application Forms 2026: Complete Guide to SET(O), SET(M) & More
Settlement applications are chosen by route, not by picking a form code from a list. The SET labels still appear in guidance and in…
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UK Spouse Visa Accommodation Requirements 2026: Complete Guide
The spouse visa accommodation requirement asks three things: that the home is available now rather than planned, that part of it is yours exclusively,…
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FLR Visa UK 2026: Complete Guide to Further Leave to Remain
Further leave to remain is any extension applied for from inside the UK. Which application you make is decided by the basis of your…
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Criminal Record Certificate UK Visa 2026: ACRO Police Certificate Cost & Complete Guide
A criminal record certificate is only required on some UK work applications, and the rule is narrower than most guides suggest: it applies to…
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Spouse Visa English Requirement 2026: A1, A2 & B1 Test Guide
The spouse visa English requirement rises at every stage: A1 to enter, A2 to extend, B1 to settle — and B2 for settlement applications…
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UK Spouse Visa Document Checklist 2026: Required Documents & Evidence Guide
A spouse visa document checklist is not a list of things to include — it is a list of things that must agree with…
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Relationship with Partner Visa UK 2026: Proof of Genuine Relationship Guide
Every partner application turns on one question: is the relationship genuine and subsisting. Married couples prove it with a certificate and a shared life.…
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