Most visa refusals are avoidable — a document in the wrong form, a requirement misread, a question answered carelessly. Our visa application checking service is the fixed-fee middle path: you prepare your own application, and an immigration solicitor checks it against the rules before you submit — catching the problems while they're still free to fix.
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How We Can Help
What the Application Checking Service Is
A fixed-fee review of your self-prepared application by a qualified immigration solicitor — not a proofread, but a check against the actual Immigration Rules and caseworker guidance your application will be judged by. You keep the savings of doing it yourself; we add the layer that catches what the gov.uk forms don't warn you about.
What We Check
The form's answers against your documents; the documents against the rules' specified requirements — dates, formats, who issued what and when; the financial evidence against the calculation the caseworker will actually run; and the overall story for the inconsistencies and gaps that trigger refusals. You get the findings in writing: what's wrong, what's missing, and exactly how to fix each item before you press submit.
Applications Covered
The service covers the applications people most often prepare themselves: visitor visas, spouse and family visas, student visas, settlement applications and British citizenship applications — where the good-character and residence questions punish casual answers. If your application type isn't listed, ask; if a solicitor can check it, we will.
How It Works
Send us your completed draft and supporting documents; we review and return written findings — corrections, missing evidence, risk flags — typically within a few working days, faster where a deadline demands it. You make the fixes and submit with confidence. One fixed fee, agreed up front, no surprises: the pricing sits on our fees page.
Who It's For
Confident applicants with straightforward cases: the requirements are met, the documents exist, and what you want is a professional set of eyes before the fee and the risk of a refusal on your record. It's the proportionate option — a fraction of full representation, and vastly cheaper than the refusal it prevents. Our maintenance calculator pairs well with it for financial-requirement cases.
When You Need More Than a Check
Some cases shouldn't be self-prepared: refusal history, criminal records, gaps in status, complex finances, or anything where the honest answer to "do I qualify?" is unclear. If your check reveals that, we'll say so plainly and quote for full representation — with the checking fee credited, so caution costs you nothing.
Why a Solicitor Check Beats a Template
Checklists and forums tell you what usually matters; a solicitor reads what matters in your case — the rules as they stand this month, the specified-evidence details refusals actually cite, and the questions where your particular history needs careful wording. Refusals cost the fee, months of delay and a mark that must be declared on every future application. The check exists to make sure you never meet one.
Why Connaught Law
01Checked against the rulesReviewed by immigration solicitors against current rules and guidance — not a generic checklist.
02Fixed fee, fast turnaroundOne agreed price, findings in writing, days not weeks — with urgent turnaround when deadlines loom.
03Honest triageIf your case needs full representation, we say so — and credit your checking fee against it.
04The full firm behind itOur experienced immigration team handles every route — so the advice doesn't stop at the checklist's edge.
Fixed fees for the checking service are set out on our fees page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the checking service guarantee my visa will be approved?
No honest service can promise that — decisions belong to the Home Office. What checking does is remove the avoidable refusals: the documentary defects, calculation errors and inconsistencies that sink otherwise-qualifying applications. If our review suggests you don't qualify at all, we'll tell you that too, before you spend the application fee.
How long does the check take?
Typically a few working days from receiving your complete draft and documents, with expedited turnaround available when a deadline or visa expiry is close. Build the check into your timetable a week or two before you plan to submit — that leaves room to fix what we find.
Can you check a British citizenship application?
Yes — citizenship checking is one of the most requested versions of the service, because the residence calculations and good-character disclosure questions are where naturalisation applications go wrong. We check the form, the absence arithmetic and the disclosure approach before you submit.
What if the check finds serious problems?
Then it's done its job at the cheapest possible moment. You'll get plain advice: fix and submit, wait until you qualify, or move to full representation for the complex cases — with your checking fee credited against it. Every one of those outcomes beats discovering the problem in a refusal letter.
Application ready to submit?
Don't press the button yet. Send it to us first — a fixed-fee solicitor check today is cheaper than any refusal tomorrow.
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