CALCULATORS & ELIGIBILITY CHECKERS
Work out your settlement date under the published rules, audit your time outside the UK, and check what each visa route actually requires. Every tool cites the rule it applies.
SETTLEMENT & ILR CALCULATORS
Pick the route you hold permission on. Each one works out your qualifying period and earliest application date.
Long Residence (10-Year) ILR Calculator Most detailed
Full qualifying-period engine: lawful residence, gaps in permission, Section 3C leave, Para 39E overstay, absence limits and your earliest filing date.
Skilled Worker, Health & Care, Scale-up ILR Calculator
Qualifying period on the Skilled Worker route, including Health and Care Worker, Scale-up, and other combinable work routes.
Global Talent ILR Calculator
Includes the 3-year fast track for endorsed applicants.
Spouse / Partner Route ILR Calculator
Qualifying residence on the 5-year and 10-year family routes.
STUDENT & GRADUATE TOOLS
ROUTE REQUIREMENTS & ELIGIBILITY
These ask about your circumstances — sponsorship, income, endorsement, English language — rather than your dates.
Not sure which route applies to you?
Answer a few questions and the eligibility engine shows every work, study, family and settlement route open to you.
Start the eligibility checker →Skilled Worker requirements
Sponsorship, salary and points questions for the Skilled Worker route.
Spouse / Partner requirements
Relationship, financial and English language requirements.
Health & Care Worker requirements
Eligible occupation, sponsorship and salary questions.
Global Talent requirements
Endorsement routes and what each endorsing body expects.
Student requirements
CAS, funds and English language requirements.
Graduate route requirements
Eligibility after completing a UK qualification.
Innovator Founder requirements
Endorsement and business plan criteria.
Long Residence requirements
Suitability, knowledge of language and life, and residence conditions.
How an answer is produced
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What you enter
Your dates, visas, absences and circumstances.
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What we apply
The published Immigration Rules in force for those dates.
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What you see
A calculation, an explanation, and the rule it came from.
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What it cannot tell you
Whether an application will be granted, or what you should do.
What VisaExplain is not
VisaExplain is not a law firm and is not regulated to give immigration advice. It applies published rules to the information you enter. It is not a decision on your case, it does not know facts you have not given it, and it cannot tell you what to do.
How we produce our answers →Where the rules come from
Every route page cites the GOV.UK page or Immigration Rules Appendix it comes from, and every calculation records which dated policy version produced it.