Work and Business Visas

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Global Business Mobility

The Global Business Mobility visa is a combined category of five sponsored work routes for workers from overseas companies to work in the UK temporarily.

Senior or Specialist Worker – for employees with specialist knowledge transferring to a UK branch.

Graduate Trainee – For graduates on specialised training programmes in a UK branch.

UK Expansion Worker – ​​For employees setting up a new UK presence for an overseas company.

Service Supplier – For individuals delivering specific services to a UK client under a contract.

Secondment Worker – For employees temporarily assigned to work in a UK branch.

Starting a Business

Innovator Founder Visa

  • Length: Up to 3 years
  • How: Endorsement from an approved body required, click here for eligibility
  • What For: Starting a new, innovative business in the UK


Sponsor License

After establishing a business in the UK, individuals are, under certain conditions, able to sponsor themselves:

  • Establish a UK business
  • Obtain sponsorship license
  • Once licensed, your company can assign Certificates of Sponsorship for Skilled Worker Visas.


You register a company, apply for a sponsor license (allowing your company to sponsor employees), and then apply for your Skilled Worker visa
       

  • Tier 1 Entrepreneur Visa
  • Tier 1 Investor Visa
  • Representative of Oversea Business Visa

Long Term Work Visas

Skilled Worker visa – A Skilled Worker Visa allows you to work for a UK employer that’s been approved by the Home Office and have a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) from your employer. A Skilled Worker Visa allows you to stay in the UK and it allows you to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain after 5 years.

Minister of Religion visa (T2)you’ve been offered a job within a faith community (for example as a minister of religion, missionary, or member of a religious order) in the UK. Seeeligibility requirements.

High Potential Individual (HPI) visa – HPI visa allows you to stay in the UK for 2 years. You must have been awarded a qualification by an eligible university in the past 5 years.  An HPI visa lasts for 2 years, however if you have a PhD or other doctoral qualification, you can have an HPI visa for 3 years. You can switch an HPI visa to other category which allows you to stay in the UK towards permanent residency (i.e. Indefinite Leave to Remain).

Graduate Visa A Graduate visa gives you permission to stay in the UK for at least 2 years after successfully completing a course in the UK. You must be in the UK when you apply.

Youth Mobility Scheme visa – Youth Mobility Scheme visa allows you to live and work in the UK for up to 2 years if you are aged between 18 to 30 or 18 to 35 depending on where you are from. You need to have £2530 in savings when you apply. For a list of countries check the linkeligibility requirements

Specialist Work Visa

Global Talent Visa – A Global Talent Visa is for a leader or potential leader in one of the following fields:

  • academia or research
  • arts and culture
  • digital technology

If you are a winner of an eligible prestigious prize you can apply for the Global Talent visa without an endorsement.
You can find the eligible prizes by click the link
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/global-talent-eligible-prize-list

If you have not won a prize which is named on the above list, you’ll need to apply for an endorsement instead. You can apply for an endorsement if you work in one of the following fields:


You can apply for indefinite leave to remain after 3 or 5 years, depending on which field you work in and how you apply.

Frontier Worker Permit

  • For EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein individuals
  • Work in Uk but live in above countries
  • Usually have worked in the UK at least once every 12 months since 31 December 2020


International Sportsperson Visa

  • Endorsement from sport’s governing body confirming status as elite sportsperson or coach, internationally established, click for eligibility requirements

Short Term Work Visas

UK overseas domestic worker visa

  • Length: Up to 6 months
  • How: Must be employed by overseas employer and travelling to UK
  • What For: Accompanying employer as a domestic worker


Creative Worker Visa
A creative worker is someone who works in the creative industries, for example an actor, dancer, musician or film crew member, click for eligibility requirements.

International Agreement Visa (Temporary Work) for an overseas government or ‘recognized international organisation, as a private servant in a diplomatic household

Government Authorised Exchange Visa (Temporary Workwant to come to the UK for a short time for work experience or to do training, an Overseas Government Language Programme, research or a fellowship through an approved government authorised exchange scheme

UK seasonal worker Visa

  • Length: Up to 6 months
  • How: Sponsored by UK employer in agriculture
  • What For: Temporary seasonal agricultural work

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