Is Endorsa legit? An honest answer

Is Endorsa a scam?

No. But you were right to ask, and we would rather you asked us plainly than lay awake wondering. The endorsement-help market attracts bad actors precisely because applicants are anxious and the stakes are high: a refusal costs money, time and momentum. When you are about to hand over both your evidence and several thousand pounds, "is this a scam?" is not paranoia — it is due diligence.

So we will not answer with adjectives. Trust is not something we can assert into existence with the word "trusted" in a headline. It is something you build by checking. Below are the concrete, verifiable signals a scam cannot easily fake — and exactly how to test each one yourself before you part with more than the price of a £200 report.

Are the fees fixed and published, or vague quotes?

Fixed and published — the whole ladder is on the website, in numbers, before you speak to anyone. Vague "contact us for a quote" pricing is where a lot of the anxiety in this market comes from, because a price that only appears after a sales call is a price that can be tuned to how desperate you sound. Ours does not move.

Government fees are entirely separate and we never mark them up: the endorsement fee is £561, the visa fee is £205 (combined £766), and the Immigration Health Surcharge is £1,035 per year for each applicant. You pay the Home Office directly for those; we do not touch them, add to them, or route them through us. For the full breakdown see our cost page. By comparison, immigration law firms typically charge £4,500–£9,000 +VAT for the same outcome — so a published, fixed fee is not only more honest, it is usually cheaper.

How do I know the advice is not out of date?

Because we date our facts and check them against GOV.UK — visibly. The single most common way applicants are quietly misled is stale information: fee folklore that predates the April 2025 rise, or references to the old, separate Tech Nation application form that was withdrawn on 4 August 2025. Since that date, applicants complete a single GOV.UK Stage 1 endorsement form; Tech Nation remains the endorsing body. A guide that still describes the old two-form process is not lying on purpose — but it is wrong, and wrong advice is how good applicants get refused.

Every fact-led page on this site carries a verification date, like the line under the heading above. The current, GOV.UK-checked figures we work from are simple to confirm: the endorsement decision usually takes 5 to 8 weeks; a refusal has no statutory appeal, only a free endorsement review requested within 28 days; the evidence pack is a maximum of 10 documents plus a CV and 3 recommendation letters; and settlement follows after 3 years as a leader or 5 years as a potential leader. You can check every one of those against GOV.UK right now. We would rather you did.

What exactly does Endorsa guarantee?

Two concrete, written commitments — and, deliberately, not a guarantee of the outcome itself. No honest adviser can promise you an endorsement, because the decision belongs to the endorsing body, not to us. Anyone who guarantees a pass is either misunderstanding the process or misleading you. What we can and do put in writing is practical protection if the decision goes against you:

• End-to-End Writing (£4,500) includes one free reattempt support if the outcome goes against you — we help you go again rather than leaving you on your own.
• Done-with-you (£2,500) includes support for one endorsement review, so if you choose to challenge a process error within the 28-day window, you are not doing it alone.

To be equally plain about the limits: service fees are non-refundable, which our refund policy states directly rather than burying. We would rather tell you that upfront than surprise you later. The formal terms of every commitment are set out on our Terms page, and if anything there is unclear you can ask before you buy.

Can I speak to a real person before committing?

Yes — a real assessor, not a chatbot and not a salesperson reading a script. Every £200 Fit Assessment includes a 45-minute review call: a live walkthrough of your scored report, your route recommendation, and the specific gaps in your evidence. That call exists so you can look someone in the eye (figuratively) and judge for yourself whether they know the Digital Technology route and whether they are being straight with you.

Before you buy anything at all, you can reach the team directly. Email support@endorsa.uk, or message us on WhatsApp. A working support email and a real messaging channel, answered by people, are exactly the things a fly-by-night operation cannot sustain — so use them, and see how we respond.

Why does Endorsa not advertise a big success rate?

Because the honest answer is that no official refusal statistics exist for the Digital Technology route — so any confident, precise success rate you see advertised anywhere in this market has, at some point, been invented. We refuse to manufacture one to win your trust, and that refusal is itself the point.

A firm willing to fabricate a statistic to sign you up is a firm willing to fabricate other things later — in your letters, in your evidence, in what it tells the endorsing body. We would rather lose a sceptical reader than manufacture a number. What we will say is grounded and framed honestly: the visa is reported to be approved in the large majority of cases once the endorsement is secured, while the endorsement itself is widely reported to be the hard, selective stage. We will always tell you where the real risk sits — at endorsement — rather than paper over it with a reassuring figure.

The same honesty applies to how we prove quality. We do not publish a redacted sample report, because a public template is trivially copied and would help exactly the low-quality operators we are warning you about. Instead we show you the report's structure and contents, we put you on the review call, and we stand behind the written guarantees above. Substance you can inspect, not a specimen you cannot.

How can I test all of this myself?

Do not trust this page. Test it. Every claim here is designed to be checked in an afternoon:

• Fees: read the numbers on this page and on the pricing page. They match, and they do not change based on how you sound on a call.
• Accuracy: take any figure above — 5 to 8 weeks, 28 days, 10 documents, 3 letters — and confirm it against GOV.UK.
• Contact: email support@endorsa.uk with a hard question before you spend anything, and judge the reply.
• Value: the £200 Fit Assessment is the lowest-risk way to see how we work. It is credited in full against any package within 14 days, so if you go on to buy, it costs you nothing net.

If you have already been refused and are wondering whether it is even worth trying again, start with your 28-day window. If you are unsure your employer counts as a product-led technology company, read the service-company question. And if you simply want the full map of what worries applicants most, our pain points hub is the place to start.

Frequently asked questions

Related reading: services & pricing, the full cost breakdown, what changed in 2025/26, refused? your 28-day window and the pain points hub.

Last updated: 6 July 2026. Facts on this page were verified against GOV.UK on 6 July 2026.