## VisaBuddy — Canada Immigration Assistant
### A retrieval‑augmented, QLoRA‑fine‑tuned LLM assistant for Canadian immigration guidance
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- **License**: MIT
- **Model (Hugging Face)**: `<your-hf-username>/<your-model-repo>`
- **Tech**: `LLM • QLoRA • RAG • FastAPI • React • TypeScript • TailwindCSS • ChromaDB`
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## Overview
VisaBuddy — Canada Immigration Assistant is an end‑to‑end system that combines a custom fine‑tuned LLM with a modern web UI to help users explore Canadian immigration programs in a conversational way.
The assistant:
- retrieves information from cleaned IRCC (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) documents,
- runs a **RAG (Retrieval‑Augmented Generation)** pipeline over a **ChromaDB** vector store,
- and answers questions through a **FastAPI** backend and **React** chat frontend.
> **Important:** VisaBuddy is **not** an official source of immigration advice and is **not** a substitute for a licensed immigration consultant o…
