Legal

Legal & privacy

Last updated: August 2026

Our regulatory position

Verity is a product of Maturo Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17058437), registered office 6 St Peters Street, St Albans AL1 3LF.

We are not a law firm. We are not solicitors and we are not authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. We are not registered with the Immigration Advice Authority (formerly OISC).

What the free checker does

It applies the published Immigration Rules to the facts and figures you enter, arithmetically and in your own browser. For each requirement it tells you what the Rules ask for, links to the paragraph it comes from, and shows the calculation, so you can check our working rather than take our word for it.

What it does not do

• It does not recommend a route. It will not tell you which application you should make, or when.
• It does not express a view on your prospects. No likelihood, no strength, no score, no prediction about what the Home Office will decide.
• It does not decide the requirements that turn on a caseworker's judgement. Whether your relationship is genuine and subsisting, whether you intend to live together permanently, and whether your accommodation is adequate are judged by a person on your evidence. We tell you those requirements exist and what they are judged on. We never mark them met or not met.
• It does not check everything. It does not look at suitability — a criminal record, a previous refusal, overstaying — or at your documents, or at the rest of a real application. Where those apply we say so and point you elsewhere rather than scoring them.
• It does not act for you. We do not correspond with the Home Office, and we do not submit anything on your behalf.

You remain responsible for your application, for the accuracy of everything in it, and for submitting it. If you want advice on your individual circumstances — what to do, rather than what the Rules say — you should instruct a solicitor or an adviser registered with the Immigration Advice Authority. You can check whether an adviser is registered on the IAA's public register.

We are not affiliated with the government

Verity is a private company. We are not part of, endorsed by, or affiliated with the Home Office, UK Visas and Immigration, or any government department. You can apply for a UK family visa directly at gov.uk/uk-family-visa, and you do not need to use Verity or any other service to do so. Home Office application fees are payable directly to the Home Office.

Terms of use

Using Verity

By using this site you agree to these terms. You must be 18 or over. You agree to give us accurate information, and to use Verity only to prepare your own application or one you are properly involved in as a sponsor or family member.

What we promise, and what we don't

We take real care to keep the Rules we encode current and correct, and every figure we use is traceable to its source. But the Immigration Rules change frequently and often at short notice, and how they apply depends on facts we do not see. We do not warrant that what you read here is complete, current or applicable to your situation, and a result is only ever as good as the answers it was given.

We cannot and do not guarantee any outcome. Using Verity does not make your application more likely to succeed, and nothing here should be read as a prediction or an assurance about a Home Office decision.

The checker is free

The requirements checker is free to use and there is nothing to pay. We do not ask for card details and we do not hold any. If we introduce paid services later, their terms and prices will be set out before you buy anything.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from a refused, delayed or withdrawn application, from fees paid to the Home Office, or from any decision you make on the basis of information on this site. Nothing in these terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Nothing here affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

Privacy notice

Who we are

The data controller is Maturo Limited, 6 St Peters Street, St Albans AL1 3LF. You can contact us at privacy@getverity.co.uk. If Verity later moves into its own company, we will tell you before your information transfers.

The check itself is anonymous

Answering the questions and seeing your result involves no personal data at all. The whole calculation runs in your browser, and nothing is sent to us unless you choose, afterwards, to have a copy emailed to you.

What we collect, if you ask for a copy

• Your first name and email address, so we can send the copy and address it to you.
• The answers you gave and the result they produced — your application stage, your partner's immigration status, income and savings figures, relationship dates, English level and accommodation answers.
• A partner's email address, only if you ask us to send them the same copy. We use it once, for that, and do not keep it.
• Anonymous usage statistics about how the site is used. We do not use tracking cookies, and we do not build a profile of you.

Why we process it, and on what basis

• To send you the copy you asked for — because you asked us to, and because it is what you came for.
• To tell you when the rules change, or when a date you were waiting for arrives. If your result said you would meet a requirement on a future date, we can email you on that date. That is consent, and you can withdraw it at any time.
• To keep the service secure, and to correct errors in the rules we encode — our legitimate interests.
• To improve how the service works, including training models on case data. We are telling you this now, at the point of collection, rather than adding it quietly later. This is a separate purpose from serving you, we rely on your consent for it, and you can decline it without losing anything else.

Who we share it with

We do not sell your data and we never share it with advertisers. The service runs on Microsoft Azure in the UK South region, and the emails are sent through Azure Communication Services with a UK data location — both Microsoft, both bound by a data processing agreement. We do not share your information with the Home Office; you submit your own application.

Where it is held

In the United Kingdom. The database, the application and the email service are all pinned to UK regions, and that is enforced by a policy that refuses to create resources anywhere else.

How long we keep it

Three years from the day you save it. That is worked out from what the checker can tell you, not picked for convenience: the longest wait it can calculate is two years — the period an unmarried couple has to have lived together — and if we kept your result for only two years we could delete it the week before the date you were waiting for. Three years leaves room for the reminder to reach you and for you to act on it.

After that we delete it. You can tell us to stop emailing you, or to delete your result altogether, at any time — email us and we will do it within 30 days.

Your rights

You have the right to access your data, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to processing, and to data portability. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time. To exercise any of these, email us. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Cookies

We use no tracking or advertising cookies, so there is no consent banner to click through. Our usage statistics are collected without cookies and without recording your IP address.

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