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Rejection Recovery

A refusal is not always the end

Most visa refusals are procedural, not personal — a document that didn't demonstrate what the officer needed to see, in a form they'd accept. Those are fixable. The ones that aren't, we'll tell you about before you spend anything.

Results

How the programme has performed

Approved on refile
Not published yet

First 12 months

Service fee
₹0

Government fee only

We advise against
Not published yet

Refile unlikely to succeed

Median to assessment
Not published yet

From upload

Process

How it works

  1. 1

    Send us the refusal

    Upload the refusal notice and the application that produced it. If you applied elsewhere and no longer have the application, we can usually reconstruct it from your documents.

  2. 2

    We identify the likely cause

    Most authorities give a generic reason or none at all. We score your application against historical outcomes to find the fields most associated with refusal in your specific category and destination.

  3. 3

    You get a written assessment

    What we believe went wrong, how confident we are, and — crucially — whether we think a refile will succeed. Roughly one in six assessments concludes that it will not.

  4. 4

    We refile at no service cost

    If you proceed, you pay the government fee only. The government fee is unavoidable; ours is not, and charging it twice for a second attempt would be hard to defend.

When we advise against refiling

A programme that refiled everything would show a worse approval rate and take money from people with no realistic path. Where the refusal reflects something structural — a prior overstay, an adverse immigration record, a genuine eligibility gap — we say so and do not file.

Government fees are still payable

Each submission carries its own government fee, and the destination keeps it regardless of outcome. We waive our service fee, which is the part we control.

Causes

Why applications actually get refused

Refusals cluster far more tightly than most applicants expect. These five account for the large majority of what we see.

1. Financial evidence that doesn't demonstrate what it needs to

Not insufficient funds — insufficient demonstration. A healthy balance that appeared as a lump sum three days before applying reads as borrowed. Six months of consistent statements showing an ordinary income pattern outperforms a larger balance with no history, every time.

2. Weak ties to your home country

The officer is assessing whether you will return. Employment letters, property records, family dependants and prior travel history all speak to this. Its absence is the most common cause of refusal for first-time travellers, and the most fixable.

3. Itinerary inconsistencies

Dates that do not match your bookings, a hotel booked for fewer nights than your stated stay, or a return flight after your visa would expire. These are read as carelessness at best and misrepresentation at worst.

4. Photo and document non-compliance

Entirely avoidable and still common. The photo specification differs by country in ways that catch people who reused a previous photo.

5. Prior immigration history

A previous refusal you did not declare is significantly more damaging than the refusal itself. Authorities share this data. Declaring a prior refusal and explaining it is almost always the stronger position.

Been refused? Send it over

A written assessment within six days, and an honest answer about whether a refile is worth attempting.

Start an assessment