Check your visa application against the reasons they refuse.

Answer five questions and see which grounds look weak. Free, no email.

Where are you applying to go?

Every country publishes its own reasons for refusing, and they are not the same.

Why are you going?

The purpose has to be one the visa permits, and the rest of the application has to match it.

Who is paying for the trip?

Money that is not yours has to be evidenced by the person whose money it is.

What do you do at home?

This is the tie the officer weighs most heavily, and the one most often left unevidenced.

What is your travel history?

Travel you completed and returned from is the single most useful thing you can show.

What the officer is checking

Standard Visitor

UK Visas and Immigration

Whether your circumstances at home give you a reason to return that outweighs any reason to stay. The officer weighs employment, family, property, study and previous travel together, not one by one.

Check a Standard Visitor application

Short-stay visa (type C)

the consulate of the member state that decided the application

Whether the travel document itself is genuine.

Check a Short-stay visa (type C) application

Visitor visa (temporary resident visa)

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Whether the trip you describe makes sense for someone in your circumstances, at the cost you will pay, for the length you asked for.

Check a Visitor visa (temporary resident visa) application

B1/B2 visitor visa

the United States Department of State

The law starts by presuming you intend to immigrate. The officer is assessing whether your ties to your home country are strong enough to overcome that presumption, in an interview that usually lasts two to three minutes.

Check a B1/B2 visitor visa application

What we do and don’t do

Approvable compares what you plan to submit with the published reasons this visa is refused, and tells you where it is thin and what evidence would address it. We do not tell you what to say, and nobody can guarantee a decision. Where a case needs a regulated adviser, we say so and introduce one.

Questions

Is this immigration advice?

No. It is a self-help review of your own application against published refusal grounds. For advice on your situation, we refer you to a regulated adviser.

Can a sponsor use it for a relative?

Yes. Open the case as a sponsor, add your own documents, and share the link with the applicant. One purchase covers the case whoever pays.

Does it predict whether I'll be approved?

No. It shows how well the application addresses each ground. That is what we can measure honestly.

What if I'm refused again?

Paste the new letter into your case. Included for 30 days on Reapply, and the redraft comes with it.

What happens to my documents?

Used only for this case, deleted after 90 days, never used for anything else.

Which visas?

UK Standard Visitor, Schengen short-stay, Canada visitor, US B1/B2. More are coming.