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How Visa Engine works for talent petitions, skilled-work routes, and visitor visas — cases, document kits, AI analysis, next steps, drafts and letters, the filing binder, the visitor application pack, RFE help, and plans
Visa Engine is an AI-powered visa readiness tool. You create a case for a specific visa type, upload evidence documents, and see how those documents map to immigration criteria or visitor checklists — plus readiness scoring, preparation tools, and draft generation.
It is an educational and analytical tool, not a law firm and not legal advice. Analysis is checked against published immigration rules, not a generic chatbot.
A case is your file for one visa route (for example O-1A or UK Standard Visitor). Upload everything you have — there is nothing to label. Each evidence file is read, its document type is detected, and it is filed into your visa's document kit: the folders and checklist of what that route usually needs.
Evidence — passports, certificates, letters someone else wrote — is kept as filed and analyzed as soon as it is read. Working documents, the drafts you are still writing, stay editable and are analyzed only when you ask.
You can re-upload a better file and keep the latest version. Only the latest version counts toward readiness.
When a document arrives, Visa Engine:
Photos are described — an award ceremony, a talk, a performance — and count as corroborating evidence. Visa Engine never identifies anyone by their face, so it asks you to caption who is in a photo and what it shows.
Large filings — hundreds of pages, or a PDF split for upload — are cut into individual documents. Each becomes an exhibit with a permanent letter (A, B, … AA) that does not change as the case grows. A firm's own exhibit labels and exhibit list are kept.
Evidence checks run on their own too: a passport that has expired or expires before the trip, names that don't match across documents, documents not in the filing language, and — for visitors — bookings or insurance that don't cover the trip dates.
A case is worked in tabs, in order:
On paid plans Visa Engine drafts what a case needs written: criterion narratives, reference and expert-opinion letters, a request to a peer organization for an O-1 advisory opinion, and a translator's certificate for the translator to complete. The petition letter is assembled from the narratives you approved, above their exhibit letters — only its introduction and conclusion are written by AI.
Drafts open in the editor and export to Word. Anything a draft does not know is left as a visible placeholder, never invented. A draft is never rewritten over your edits: when new evidence arrives, an updated version is offered for you to compare and accept.
A letter someone else signs can be sent for signature from the document. The signer gets a link — valid for three weeks, opening only that document — downloads a Word copy, and uploads the signed file straight back into your case.
On visitor routes you enter the trip once — dates, destinations, purpose, who pays — and the application pack is written from it: a cover letter, an itinerary, and host, employer, or sponsor letters for the people who sign them. Anything unknown stays visibly marked "[to be confirmed]". The trip is also checked against your evidence.
The filing binder puts each exhibit's original pages behind a cover, a table of contents, and exhibit dividers. It stays a draft until a person approves that exact file. Visa Engine does not file anything — you or your attorney do.
Each case chooses: keep original files (the default — the binder uses the real scan), keep the evidence, not the packet (a large upload is removed once the documents inside it are saved as PDFs of their original pages and checked), or keep only extracted text. An original is deleted only once that is proven safe — never while some of its pages are still unread.
If you receive a Request for Evidence, upload the notice itself: Visa Engine recognizes it and offers to start a response, maps the officer's points to your evidence, and drafts a reply. Available on talent routes; drafting needs a paid plan.
Case chat answers from what your documents actually say, with a link to the page it read. It can also act on the case — confirm a document type, caption a photo, generate a draft, send a letter for signature — but only after you approve each action.
The public Eligibility check asks a short set of questions and returns a ranked shortlist of visa routes that may fit your profile. It is a starting point for exploration — not an approval prediction.
The Guide Library covers visa overviews, criteria deep-dives, document guides, a glossary, and FAQ. This page is the product guide; visa-specific guides explain how each route works under the law. How those guides are researched — regulation versus agency policy versus a Visa Engine score — is on the methodology page.
Immigration firms can share cases with attorneys, paralegals, and other staff, invite clients into their own case, hand the next missing piece to the client as a task, and track new leads. Individual applicants can use Visa Engine without joining a firm.
Plans are Free, Starter, and Pro. Free includes analysis, readiness tracking, prep tools, and guides. Generated drafts and letters, Intelligence, and higher limits — more cases, more documents, and more scanned pages read per document — come with paid plans. A PDF you split into parts to upload counts as one document. See Pricing for current limits and features.
No. Visa Engine helps you understand requirements and assess evidence against published criteria. For advice specific to your situation, consult a qualified immigration attorney. Guide and chat content are for informational purposes only.