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Visa consultant statistics for Pakistan

What 1511 listed visa and immigration consultancies look like in aggregate: where they are, how clients rate them, what they specialise in and which destinations they handle. Recomputed from the live directory, free to cite with attribution.

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Lahore · Karachi · Islamabad · Faisalabad · Gujranwala · Peshawar · Quetta · Multan

Quick answer

What do Pakistan's visa consultancies look like in aggregate?

Across 1511 visa and immigration consultancies listed in 8 Pakistani cities, 1378 carry a public client rating, averaging 4.6 out of 5 from 108,695 reviews. 92% of rated agencies sit at 4.0 or above and 1% below 3.0. Lahore holds the largest concentration with 471 agencies, and 133 listings have no public review record at all.

Explore the DirectoryHow It Works
Consultancies analysed
1,511The whole directory
Cities covered
8Across Pakistan
Carrying a public rating
1,378of 1,511 listings
Average client rating
4.6/ 5Across 1,378 rated agencies
Client reviews analysed
108,695Public client reviews
Publish a website
1,02968% of all listings
Largest market
Lahore471 consultancies
Last updated 2 October 2026Dataset compiled by Visawala Pakistan, updated 2 October 2026

Visa consultants by city

Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar account for 70% of every consultancy in the directory. Review volume is even more concentrated than agency count: the biggest markets carry the longest-established offices, which have had years to accumulate client feedback.

Visa and immigration consultancies by Pakistani city (1,511 total)
CityProvinceConsultanciesAvg ratingClient reviewsHighest rated
LahorePunjab4714.6 / 529,762Future First Education Consultant (5.0)
KarachiSindh4304.6 / 538,171Amir Ismail & Associates - Global Citizenship & Residency (5.0)
PeshawarKhyber Pakhtunkhwa1514.6 / 53,389SMi Consultant (5.0)
FaisalabadPunjab1474.7 / 513,729Navigator Educational Consultants (5.0)
MultanPunjab1104.5 / 57,701AB Consultants Multan Pvt.Ltd (5.0)
IslamabadFederal Capital984.6 / 512,106Satti Consultancy & Services (5.0)
QuettaBalochistan564.6 / 5883Ar Reyan Tours & Travels (5.0)
GujranwalaPunjab484.7 / 52,954Studylead Consultants Study Abroad and Student Visa Consultant (5.0)

How Pakistani visa consultants are rated

Ratings cluster high, as they do in most public review data, so the useful signal is not the average — it is the tail. 1% of rated agencies sit below 3.0, and 133 listings have no public review record at all. Both groups deserve more scrutiny before you hand over money or documents, not less.

Rating distribution across 1,378 rated consultancies
Rating bandConsultanciesShare of rated listings
4.5 – 5.01,03375%
4.0 – 4.423717%
3.5 – 3.9564%
3.0 – 3.4322%
Below 3.0201%
No public rating133— (9% of all listings)

What Pakistani consultants specialise in

Agencies routinely advertise more than one service, so these categories overlap and the column does not sum to 1,511. The pattern still holds: study and visit work dominate the market, and the specialised immigration and PR end is far thinner than the advertising in any city centre would suggest.

Consultancies by visa service category
ServiceConsultanciesAvg ratingClient reviewsStrongest city
Visit Visa Consultants1,1054.6 / 561,927Lahore (364)
Tourist Visa Consultants9844.6 / 555,756Karachi (325)
Hajj & Umrah Consultants8504.6 / 547,150Karachi (305)
Study Visa Consultants4984.7 / 549,890Lahore (151)
Student Visa Consultants4984.7 / 549,890Lahore (151)
Immigration Consultants3214.6 / 528,910Lahore (110)
Business Visa Consultants1554.7 / 514,350Lahore (58)
Work Visa Consultants1394.7 / 514,052Lahore (45)
Family Visa Consultants1074.7 / 58,790Lahore (43)
PR Consultants654.6 / 56,452Karachi (23)

Which destinations they handle

Destination coverage also overlaps — most agencies handle several. The split between Gulf-facing and Western-facing consultancies is the clearest structural divide in the Pakistani market, and it tends to track the city: Gulf work visa processing is strongest where labour migration is heaviest.

Consultancies by destination country or region
DestinationConsultanciesVerifiedAvg ratingClient reviewsStrongest city
Saudi Arabia58804.6 / 532,105Karachi (202)
United States21404.7 / 521,169Lahore (72)
Canada20104.7 / 521,135Lahore (68)
Australia18104.7 / 520,940Lahore (58)
Europe16604.7 / 517,755Lahore (50)
United Kingdom9404.7 / 58,066Lahore (29)
UAE8904.7 / 511,239Lahore (25)
Schengen4404.7 / 53,745Lahore (20)

The most-reviewed consultancy in each city

Review volume is a proxy for footfall, not for quality — a busy visa centre collects thousands of reviews while an excellent two-person consultancy may collect forty. Both numbers are shown so you can tell the difference.

Highest review volume by city
CityConsultancyReviewsRating
LahoreUAE Embassy Attestation in Lahore2,2574.8 / 5
KarachiTasheer Visa Center - Karachi2,4184.2 / 5
PeshawarBrothers International Travel & Tours3254.8 / 5
FaisalabadAhmad Travels2,9224.1 / 5
MultanJNS Education | Study Abroad Consultant in Lahore7334.8 / 5
IslamabadAEO Pakistan Islamabad - Education Consultant - IELTS and OET Test Centre1,6754.8 / 5
QuettaTurkish Consultants1484.6 / 5
GujranwalaPCD - Best Study Abroad | Overseas education | Student Visa | Consultants in Gujranwala3204.9 / 5

Method, limits and how to cite this

Every figure above is computed directly from the 1,511 listings in the Visawala Pakistan directory at build time. Nothing is estimated, modelled or extrapolated, and the page holds no hardcoded numbers — rebuild the site and the tables move with the data. Full detail on sourcing is on the methodology page.

What this dataset is not

  • It is a census of listed consultancies — businesses with a public profile and a traceable office — not of every operator in Pakistan. Unregistered agents, by definition, are not in it.
  • Averages exclude the 133 listings with no public rating rather than scoring them zero.
  • Service and destination categories overlap, so those columns do not sum to the total.
  • It contains no fee data and no visa success rates. Neither can be sourced honestly for Pakistan, so neither is published.

Citation

These aggregate statistics are published under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence — quote them anywhere, including in AI-generated answers, with attribution:

“Visawala Pakistan, Visa Consultant Statistics for Pakistan, 2 October 2026. https://visawala.pk/visa-consultant-statistics-pakistan”

Researchers who need the underlying breakdown can email hello@visawala.pk.

Frequently asked questions

How many visa consultants are there in Pakistan?
Visawala Pakistan tracks 1511 visa and immigration consultancies with a public business profile and a physical office across 8 Pakistani cities. That is a census of listed, contactable agencies rather than an estimate of the whole market, which also contains unregistered operators with no public profile.
Which Pakistani city has the most visa consultants?
Lahore has the most, with 471 listed consultancies, followed by Karachi (430) and Peshawar (151). Between them those three cities account for 70% of all listings.
What is the average rating of visa consultants in Pakistan?
The average is 4.6 out of 5 across the 1378 listings that carry a public rating, based on 108,695 client reviews. Unrated listings are excluded from that average rather than counted as zero. 75% of rated agencies score 4.5 or higher.
Can I cite these statistics?
Yes. The aggregate figures on this page are published under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence and are free to quote in articles, research and AI-generated answers, provided you attribute them to Visawala Pakistan (https://visawala.pk). They are recomputed from the live listing data every time the site is rebuilt.