Talent visas are a long, lonely application. The rules are public, but the order of the work is not: which evidence to gather first, how a recommendation letter is usually structured, what the people one step ahead did. Talent Visa Journey puts the people on the same road in one place, and gives each of them a private workspace for their own preparation.

At a glance

  • What it is — a members-only community with one space per route (UK Global Talent, O-1, EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, H-1B), a private workspace called My road with checklists, notes and an encrypted document vault, and a directory of lawyers and regulated advisers. Live at talentvisajourney.com.
  • Who it is for — people preparing an application, visa holders who answer their questions, and the professionals who advise them.
  • Languages — every public page exists in English and Turkish.
  • Status — sign-up opened on 15 October 2026, for every country, with admission after email verification. Free during the launch period; no card is asked for.
  • Scale — 3,741 commits on the main branch between 12 September and 20 October 2026, on 25 different days. That count is mine, self-counted in a private repository I own, and nobody else has verified it.

talentvisajourney.com on 20 October 2026, captured with headless Chrome at 1440 pixels wide.

The product problem

People preparing these applications already talk to each other, in group chats and forum threads. Three things go wrong there. Advice is undated, so a rule that changed last year reads like a rule that holds today. Private documents end up in public places, because there is nowhere else to keep them. And paid advice is mixed in with peer advice, so it is hard to tell a lawyer from someone selling a template.

Talent Visa Journey keeps those three apart. Every route page links to the official source with the date it was checked. The workspace is private by construction: the vault encrypts on the member's own device, and the service cannot open the files. The professional directory lists people whose registration was checked against a public register, and nobody can buy a better position in it.

What I owned, and what I did not

I am the sole author. The public site, the member app, the server, the assistant and the release process are mine, and every architectural decision in them is one I can defend or be argued out of. The service is operated by my sole proprietorship in Ankara, which is the data controller named on the privacy notice.

What I do not own is the substance of immigration law. The product links to GOV.UK and USCIS rather than restating them, and it does not tell anyone whether they qualify.

System view

  • Public site — static pages in English and Turkish, served by a Cloudflare Worker, with dated links to official sources for each route.
  • Member app — React and TypeScript at my.talentvisajourney.com, wrapped with Capacitor for Android and iOS.
  • Server — Ruby on Rails over PostgreSQL on Railway (EU West): accounts, the community, the workspace, the directory and moderation.
  • Assistant — a separate Cloudflare Worker that answers general questions about the routes.
  • Storage and mail — media on Cloudflare R2, email through Resend.

The community section of the homepage on 20 October 2026. The member-app screen uses invented data, as the site's own caption says.

Where it stands

Live, open for sign-up, free during the launch period. The Android and iOS apps are built but not yet released on Google Play or the App Store.

What it does not claim

  • It is not a government service, a law firm or an endorsing body, and it does not predict anyone's eligibility. The site says this on its own pages.
  • No member or usage numbers are given here. None are claimed.
  • The legal and data-protection texts are still waiting for review by a qualified lawyer; the privacy notice says so.
  • The vault's encryption has not been reviewed by an independent auditor.
  • "Registration checked" in the directory records a check against a public register. It is not an approval of the professional.