I'm building a free community for people applying for UK and US talent visas

I'm preparing my own UK Global Talent application. A few months in, the part that took the most time was keeping track of everything around the application: which official page said what, which evidence I had already collected, what was still missing, and who I could ask when the guidance didn't answer my question.

So I built a place for that, and then opened it to other people. It's called Talent Visa Journey.

The vault

Visa evidence can include passports, payslips and reference letters. The vault encrypts files on your device before uploading them. Depending on your setup, your keys can be stored on your device, in iCloud Keychain or in Google Block Store. A vault passphrase, recovery key or passkey can also unlock the vault if you've set it up.

The server can see how many files someone stores, their encrypted sizes and when they were uploaded. It can't see file names or contents.

If you lose every way of opening your vault, I can't open it for you either. That is why there are several recovery paths.

Messages

Direct messages are end-to-end encrypted. A moderator reads a message only after one of the two members reports it, and then only what the reporting member's device sends.

Neither the vault nor the message encryption has had an independent review yet. If that's your field and you'd like to look, the security page explains how to report a problem.

The public site

The public site runs no analytics. If you choose a language from the menu, it sets a cookie to remember your choice.

What it is for

It's a free community for people on UK and US talent and work visa routes: Global Talent and Innovator Founder in the UK, and O-1, EB-1A, EB-2 NIW and H-1B in the US. Applicants, visa holders, recruiters and verified immigration professionals can find each other there.

If you're preparing an application, you pick your route and get a step-by-step view of what's ready and what's still missing. Each route has a plain-language guide that links the official GOV.UK or USCIS page and shows the date I last checked it. The official page is always the authority.

Sign-up is open and joining is free. The community is still small.

A question for you

If you've built something with client-side encryption: how did you handle recovery when a user loses their device and their passphrase? I'd like to hear what worked and what users actually did.