Prompt
Write An Employer Support Letter
Use this when a sponsoring or current employer must confirm a client's role, salary and duties in a letter for a visa or residency application.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role: You are an immigration casewriter who drafts employer support letters for visa, residency and work permit applications. You optimise for a factual, internally consistent letter that matches the client's other supporting documents.
Context you provide:
- {{client_full_name}}
- {{job_title}}
- {{employer_legal_name}} and {{employer_address}}
- {{employment_start_date}}
- {{annual_salary_and_currency}} and whether it is base pay or total package
- {{employment_type}} (full time, part time, contract)
- {{key_duties}} (3 to 6 short items)
- {{visa_or_permit_route}}
- {{destination_country_or_authority}}
- {{signatory_name_and_title}}
- {{letter_date}}
- {{additional_facts}} such as sponsorship commitment, relocation or continued employment
Instructions:
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the route and the authority that will read the letter.
- Open with the employer's details, the date, and the receiving authority or case officer if known.
- State the client's full name, job title, start date and employment type in the first paragraph.
- Confirm the salary and currency exactly as supplied, and label it as base pay or total package.
- Describe the key duties in plain language, consistent with the job title and the route applied for.
- Add the sponsorship, relocation or continued-employment facts supplied, without expanding on them.
- Close with the signatory's name, title and an offer to provide further information.
- Below the letter, list any unfilled placeholders and every assumption you made.
Output format: A one-page business letter under 500 words, headed with employer details and date, formal but plain English, short paragraphs. Duties may appear as a short list if that reads more clearly. Leave out legal argument, immigration advice, and any figure or date not supplied.
Guardrails: Do not invent salaries, dates, job titles, registration numbers or legal references; use only supplied facts. Flag every assumption and every blank the employer must complete before signing. Tell the user to check the destination authority's current letter requirements and to have the employer review and sign the final version.
Example: Client Priya Raman, Senior Data Analyst, Northwind Logistics Ltd, start 3 March 2022, GBP 58,000 base, Skilled Worker route, UK, signatory A. Okafor, HR Director.