Hi everyone,
I am planning my 3rd submission for the Global Talent Visa (Exceptional Promise) as a startup founder and Software engineer
My previous applications had the weirdest, most frustrating outcomes:
- Application 1: OC2 and OC3 were Accepted, but MC was Rejected.(January 2025)
- Application 2: MC was Accepted, but OC2 and OC3 were Rejected (October 2025)
MANDATORY CRITERIA EVIDENCE (Impact & Leadership Beyond Employment):
- 1.Tech-for-Good Architectural Leadership for an NGO (Volunteer)
- Architected the charity’s core digital infrastructure (Connect app) and accessible online donation system**
- 30% increase in international donor engagement.
- Backed by a detailed reference letter from the Charity President (NHS Doctor).
- Charity featured in various regional newspapers, Online news channel
- My contibuttions are marked in their landing page with name & photo
Commercial Innovation / Side Project:
- Solo-built a side project App.
- #2 Product Hunt winner daily.
- #1 Product Hunt winner weekly in Health and fitness category
- Scaled to 20,000+ downloads with a growing base of paying users, proving independent commercial viability outside my main startup.(in 7 months),
- featured in uneed.best top 10 tracking apps of 2025
- 4.8 star rating
High-Impact Sector Publications:
- Published widely read technical frameworks on AI and edtech
- Verified 1.2 Million+ cumulative views on Technology.org. for 2 articles
- Featured in InfluencerUK magazine. 313k read count
This MC was accepted last time
OPTIONAL CRITERIA 2 (Mentorship & Sector Contribution):
Global Developer Recognition (Stack Overflow):
- Stackoverflow profile, continuos contribution
- 600+ reputation score
- 35 badges won including gold( gold badge is new evidence)
- Mentored multiple software engineers as part of a 7 week mentorship program,
- letter from a Mentee a BBC Software Engineer to architect and launch her own EdTech app.
- Helped her reach 600 beta users and 200 active monthly testers. Backed by a direct reference letter from the mentee.
- Github open source contribution 400+ stras on my all repositories combined,prequalified for Github Grants Program(email screenshot)
- Medium Code based tutorial articles written in 2022 with 200+ claps for multiple articles(new evidence)
OPTIONAL CRITERIA 3 (Commercial & Product Impact):
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Product Traction:EdTech Startup
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Solo-engineered native apps Swift, Kotlin,Ktor backend
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~10,000 active installs in 3 months(new evidence)
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3 figure MRR, Hit 4 figure monthly revenue this month (Revenucat dashboard)(new evidence)
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Won muslim Tech fest 2024 London free stall alongside google and amazon(international event London,Sanfrancisco, event was featured in BBC, Guradian)
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Won Elevenlabs startup grant ($4000 worth)
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Accepted into a Buildathon like accelerator 7 weeks in london, 20 applicants accepted from 500+ applications , won 1000 GBP Cash grant
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Invitation to Talk on a UK TV channel for morning show to speak(But i have to be there for this)
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Angel Investment Offer (LOI):(new evidence)
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signed Letter of Intent for a $50,000 angel investment at a $1000,000 valuation.
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Offered by the former UK Head of similiar field product company (validating industry product-market fit), strictly conditional on my UK visa approval.
RECOMMENDATION LETTERS (3 Mandatory):
- CEO & EdTech Founder (2M+ downloads):
- Founder/CEO & Ex-VC ( $2.2M funded startup founder ):
- Staff Data Scientist of a Popular fintech company & Startup Founder of a well known app in news & media: --all from the UK