XOYA Visa Technology
XOYA is a visa application platform that validates travel documents against embassy rules before applicants pay or submit, reducing rejection rates for travelers with hard-to-travel-on passports. The platform covers 27 live destination routes and offers a free WhatsApp-based passport photo tool, with enterprise API integration for travel agencies, banks, and government ministries.
- Hospitality & Travel Technology
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Travelers with passports that are difficult to travel on face high rejection rates due to guesswork, missing documents, and fragmented visa application systems. Embassies rely on manual verification, while agents review documents only once from memory, leaving applicants to discover gaps only after paying and submitting.
Solution
XOYA provides a visa application platform that validates documents against embassy rules before users pay or submit. The checklist is sourced from consular partners with direct standing at the embassies XOYA covers, reflecting rules actually enforced at the counter rather than only published ones. Users upload documents such as payslips, land titles, and sponsor letters, and the system flags gaps against current requirements for the traveler's exact passport and destination. XOYA also offers an API that travel agencies, banks, universities, and corporates can embed to integrate visa verification into their own platforms.
Target Audience
Primary customers are individual travelers with hard-to-travel-on passports, as well as travel agencies, banks, universities, and corporates that need embedded visa verification. XOYA also works directly with government ministries, including the Nigerian and Ghana Ministries of Tourism.
Features
- Document checker trained on real submissions from applicants with hard-to-travel-on passports, including Nigerian payslips, Ghanaian land titles, and multi-language sponsor letters
- Validation against embassy rule logic sourced from consular partners with direct standing at covered embassies
- 27 live destination routes: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, UAE, Uganda, United Kingdom, and Zambia
- Three integration patterns for enterprise partners: embedded widget, headless API, or white-label flow
- Audit-grade logs and immutable event logging for every document event, with GDPR and NDPR compliance and SOC 2 Type II in progress
- Encryption of documents at rest and in transit with local data residency available for ministry deployments
- Free WhatsApp-based passport photo tool that crops and backgrounds photos to consulate specifications, with one free use per phone number
- Transparent fee display showing government fees and XOYA fees on separate lines