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The application form for a standard UK visitor visa seems to allow the entry of only 30 visits to other countries in the past 10 years. What are you supposed to do if you have had more than 30 visits and there is not enough space in the additional information section to report them all?

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  • Does the current version of the application allow adding arbitrary documents? Commented yesterday
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    Yes, the current version of the application allows adding arbitrary documents. Commented yesterday
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    I don’t recall there being any official guidance on this, but logically you could record the 30 most recent entries in the space provided, then mention in the additional comments that you made x number of other entries and have provided a separate list of those entries with your supporting documents. Commented yesterday
  • Questions relating to travel history in the application form are split between travel to UK, “Other” (USA, Canada, NZealand, Australia, Switzerland, EEA) and “Other” (non specific). Which question(s) are you referring to? Does each question allow up to 30 trips, or is it 30 in total? Commented 10 hours ago

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That happened to me a few time (not for UK Visa, though). In some cases, I was able to attach the complete list as supplementing document, which is the preferred way of handling this.

In the other cases, this wasn't possible, so I just provided the maximum number the online form would allow. In this case I took the liberty to "curate" the list and chose countries that the Visa issuer would be more likely to consider as "friendly", although I don't think this made much of a difference.

Technically, you could sort by "most recent", "most time total time stayed", "most number of entries", etc. If they don't prescribe a method, than you can pick your own.

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    Not a problem for the UK of course but in general it would be a bad idea to completely omit countries where visiting them would be a big negative factor. Commented yesterday
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    @DJClayworth: if there are "concerning" countries, they are typical handled in a separate question anyway. On my last India visa application there was a question whether any of my grandparents where Pakistani. Commented yesterday
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The acceptable and logical way to do this would be reverse chronological order (recent to last, capped at ten, which is what the form allows).

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