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Best Tools to Check Employee Visa Eligibility Instantly

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Jemima Owen-Jones

Last Update

July 17, 2025

Table of Contents

Why it’s important to check visa eligibility

Overview of the best visa eligibility tools

The limitations of government visa eligibility tools

What is Deel’s Visa Eligibility Checker, and how does it work?

More ways Deel simplifies worker relocation

Navigate visas effortlessly with Deel

Key takeaways
  1. Visa and immigration laws are complex and ever-changing. If you misinterpret them or fall behind on updates, you risk making costly errors.
  2. Deel’s Visa Eligibility Checker simplifies the immigration process. It allows you to self-verify employees’ (and contractors) visa eligibility and provides real-time, accurate insights into visa requirements.
  3. Deel also offers comprehensive immigration solutions, including visa sponsorship and compliance management. This allows you to focus on expanding your business globally without the hassle of complex immigration issues.

When expanding globally, your company needs to move fast to hire and relocate talent. However, every country has highly specific and detailed visa requirements. Researching these complex rules can be challenging and significantly delay the relocation process.

Consulting legal experts is an option. The challenge is that these firms usually operate out of one jurisdiction and charge a high fee for their services.

Specialist software is the best option. Tools like Deel’s Visa Eligibility Checker tell you whether an employee qualifies for a visa within minutes with reliable results. Our tool also works for a variety of visa types, locations, and nationalities.

Our guide gives you a quick introduction to the best visa eligibility checker tools available. Learn how you can make fast, informed decisions and keep employee relocations on track.

Why it’s important to check visa eligibility

Confirming eligibility means your overseas hires and relocations are more likely to go according to plan. On the other hand, proceeding when you’re not 100% sure whether employees qualify can cause delays and lead to additional costs.

Here are the benefits of ensuring visa eligibility:

  • Stronger compliance: Ensuring the worker meets all visa requirements protects your organization from potential violations and legal issues
  • Streamlined recruitment processes: When employee relocations go smoother, you can onboard new hires and have them start contributing to your organization sooner
  • Fewer costly errors: A low error rate in applications leads to fewer rejections and reapplications, reducing your financial burden
  • Improved planning: Identifying challenges early on enables you to make more informed decisions and sidestep them more easily. This helps you maintain momentum during hiring and relocations
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Overview of the best visa eligibility tools

Many governments provide visa eligibility checker tools. They typically focus on entry requirements rather than employment eligibility, but they can give you an idea of what to expect.

All these services ask your employee a series of questions and compare their details against historical records. Some also state the requirements for visas.

Note that you may be unable to use the tool directly. Some countries prohibit employers from using eligibility checkers to screen employees and candidates, as it constitutes discrimination. If you’re found to be doing this, your visa sponsorship status may be revoked.

The limitations of government visa eligibility tools

Government tools like E-Verify and Self-Check are designed for potential visa applicants, not businesses. They’re limited in scope and challenging to use at scale.

Additionally, these tools don’t offer much contextual guidance. They usually give you a yes or no answer and a list of the general requirements for various categories. If your employee is close to qualifying, you might not realise.

While they can be useful, they’re best-suited for employees and candidates doing research at home. They give a general sense of what’s available and prepare them for the next steps with your company.

What is Deel’s Visa Eligibility Checker, and how does it work?

Deel has a more reliable and comprehensive alternative to free government tools. Our Visa Eligibility Checker is a user-friendly self-service feature that indicates whether a worker qualifies for a specific category within minutes.

All your team needs to do is enter a few details about the worker to receive up-to-date information for the desired country.

If you’re exploring options without a specific worker in mind, the tool also offers detailed insights on visa options and requirements for various countries, including:

  • Annual salary thresholds
  • Educational level
  • Minimum age
  • Work experience
  • Minimum employment duration

Plus, you can receive estimates for application costs and timelines, along with validity periods for various visa types.

By consolidating visa eligibility checks, Deel eliminates the need for extensive research and external consultations. This enables you to save costs, make faster hiring decisions, and kick start the employee relocation process.

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More ways Deel simplifies worker relocation

Deel Immigration goes beyond checking visa eligibility. Our range of features and services provides support throughout the visa process, making it possible to say yes to more worker relocation requests.

1. Visa sponsorship

Relocating employees often requires establishing an entity in the target country and obtaining special licenses to sponsor their visa, which can be costly and time-consuming.

Deel offers a solution by combining its immigration services with Deel EOR visa sponsorship. Our wholly-owned entity becomes the legal employer and sponsors and hires any workers you wish to relocate. This setup enables you to transfer employees to over 150 countries while Deel’s EOR handles worker classification, compliance, and other hiring requirements.

After managing immigration and onboarding, Deel EOR takes care of the following processes through our advanced HR and payroll systems:

  • Wages, salaries, and contributions
  • Tax filing
  • Payslips
  • Expense management
  • Terminations

If you have entities in the target location and prefer to sponsor workers directly, Deel can assist in obtaining the necessary sponsor licenses.

Deel was also able to help retain an employee looking to work from the Netherlands through sponsoring a highly skilled migrant visa, which only took 2-3 weeks (talk about Deel speed)!

Lysette Randall,

Executive, HR Performance & Partnering at Quantium

See also: How to Get Employee Visas Through US Entities: A Guide For Employers

2. Entity setup

Setting up an entity abroad is one of the biggest barriers to hiring internationally. It’s complex, resource-intensive, and often takes months to arrange.

While EOR sponsorship is a viable option, it may not suit your current business plans. Besides hiring workers, you may wish to establish a direct presence and open offices, outlets, or manufacturing centers.

Deel Entity Setup removes the roadblocks by handling the process for you. Our specialist team registers your company, manages the tax paperwork, and opens a local bank account. We can help you establish a legal presence without delays, meaning your expansion plans won’t fall behind.

Once you’re set up, Deel Immigration can take over and assist you with sponsoring your first work visas and permits in your new location.

3. Compliance with local laws

Navigating immigration compliance requirements is complex and resource-intensive—a burden that Deel takes off your shoulders.

Deel tailors our features and services to comply with country-specific laws and regulations. It also incorporates the latest immigration reforms to ensure up-to-date compliance.

For instance, Deel requires that workers relocating to the US complete an employment eligibility verification (I-9) form. Its purpose is to verify the employment authorization of international workers hired for employment in the US. This verification is done by comparing information provided in the I-9 form against records from the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.

Other precautions Deel takes to ensure continuous compliance include:

  • Providing updates on changes in immigration and labor laws that affect your business
  • Alerting you to upcoming visa expirations and other critical deadlines
  • Ensuring all your contracts and agreements are compliant
  • Offering guidance from legal experts on maintaining compliance with payroll, tax, and employment requirements across multiple countries
  • Proactively monitoring our system to keep sensitive employee data secure

Deel's immigration experts guide us through critical decisions, especially in complex countries like the United States, always ensuring legal compliance in each applicable state.

David Holguín,

Benefits & Mobility Manager at FEMSA

4. Transparent visa and immigration tracking

Deel handles the visa and immigration paperwork through a transparent process. Both you and the worker can track application progress using a centralized immigration dashboard.

The applicant can:

  • View their onboarding checklist and complete the steps
  • Get an overview of the process, including upcoming actions and requirements, and an estimated timeline
  • Upload the required documentation without external help
  • Check status updates for completed actions

As the employer, the dashboard provides you with:

  • An overview of all active visa applications
  • The application details of a specific worker, including the estimated timeline for case completion, applicable fees, and the status of required documentation
  • The current stage of each applicant and the upcoming steps

Because Deel makes the immigration process extremely straightforward, myself and the rest of the TalentQL team are able to focus on the core aspects of our operations, without expending too much time or resources. You simply upload everything to the dashboard, and Deel’s team takes it from there.

Adewale Yusuf,

Co-founder, TalentQL and CEO of AltSchool Africa

If you or your workers have questions about the immigration process, an in-house team of immigration experts is available to assist.

See also: How to Streamline Global Mobility for Enterprises

The complexities of visa applications and immigration requirements can be overwhelming. However, the benefits of global mobility far outweigh these challenges.

Deel Immigration offers a streamlined approach to visas and immigration, making employee relocations effortless.

Use Deel’s Global Visa Eligibility Checker to confirm if a visa is viable. Enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing your visa processes are free from last-minute surprises.

Then, take a hands-off approach to the immigration process by leveraging Deel’s services for:

  • Visa and work permit sponsorship
  • Tracking visa applications
  • Managing compliance throughout the immigration process
  • Providing expert guidance for any issues that arise

Deel helps me get things done quicker, easier and more cost effectively. We can offer unparalleled worker mobility and flexibility which our team values,

Emma Leipold,

Senior Global Mobility and Total Rewards Partner at ZipCo

Looking to offer more employee relocations? Book a free consultation with the Deel Immigration team to get a closer look at our visa and immigration services.

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About the author

Jemima is a nomadic writer, journalist, and digital marketer with a decade of experience crafting compelling B2B content for a global audience. She is a strong advocate for equal opportunities and is dedicated to shaping the future of work. At Deel, she specializes in thought-leadership content covering global mobility, cross-border compliance, and workplace culture topics.