🇬🇧United Kingdom immigration routes

Every route we track for United Kingdom, with the official source behind each one.

18

routes tracked

1

need no employer sponsor

1

map to permanent residence

Routes

• Charity Worker visa (Temporary Work)

  The Charity Worker visa (Temporary Work) is the UK Home Office's sponsored route for unpaid voluntary work, replacing the Temporary Worker – Charity Worker visa (T5).

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• Family visa (partner or spouse)

  The Family visa as a partner or spouse is the UK Home Office's route for joining a partner in the UK.

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• Global Business Mobility - Senior or Specialist Worker visa

  The Senior or Specialist Worker visa (Global Business Mobility) is the UK Home Office's intra-company transfer route, replacing the Intra-company Transfer visa (previously Tier 2 Intra-company Transfer Long-term Staff): it lets an existing employee of a multinational come to or stay in the UK to do an eligible job a…

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• Global Talent visa

  The Global Talent visa is the UK Home Office's unsponsored route for leaders and potential leaders in three fields — academia or research, arts and culture, and digital technology — open to applicants aged 18 or over with no job offer or employer sponsor required.

  • No employer sponsor needed

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• Global Talent Visa (Digital Technology, Tech Nation endorsement)

  The UK's Global Talent visa for digital technology is a two-stage route: first, endorsement of exceptional talent or promise in digital technology by the sector's approved endorsing body (Tech Nation's successor arrangements), then the visa application itself.

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• Graduate visa

  The Graduate visa is the UK Home Office's post-study route: it grants permission to stay in the UK for at least 18 months after successfully completing an eligible UK course.

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• Health and Care Worker visa

  The Health and Care Worker visa is the UK Home Office's sponsored route for medical professionals coming to or staying in the UK to do an eligible job with the NHS, an NHS supplier, or in adult social care.

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• High Potential Individual visa

  The High Potential Individual (HPI) visa lets recent graduates of eligible top-ranked overseas universities live and work in the UK for 2 years (3 years for doctoral graduates), without needing a job offer.

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• Innovator Founder Visa

  The Innovator Founder visa (formerly the Innovator visa) is the UK's route for setting up and running a genuinely new business.

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  • Leads to permanent residence

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• International Sportsperson visa

  The International Sportsperson visa is the UK Home Office's sponsored route for elite sport, replacing the Sportsperson (T2) visa and the sporting part of the Temporary Worker – Creative and Sporting visa (T5).

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• Minister of Religion visa (T2)

  The Minister of Religion visa (T2) is a sponsored-work route operated by the UK Home Office for people offered a job within a UK faith community — ministers of religion, missionaries, or members of religious orders.

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• Refugee sponsorship and capped safe and legal routes (announced, not yet open)

  **This route does not exist yet.

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• Scale-up Worker Visa

  The Scale-up Worker visa lets you come to the UK to do an eligible job for a fast-growing UK business that meets the Home Office's scale-up sponsorship criteria.

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• Seasonal Worker visa (Temporary Work)

  The Seasonal Worker visa (Temporary Work) is the UK Home Office's short-term sponsored route for farm labour, replacing the Temporary Worker – Seasonal Worker visa (T5).

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• Skilled Worker Visa

  The Skilled Worker visa is the United Kingdom's main sponsored work route, under Appendix Skilled Worker of the Immigration Rules (successor to Tier 2 General).

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• Standard Visitor visa

  The Standard Visitor visa is the United Kingdom's single short-stay permission: it covers tourism, visiting family and friends, permitted business activities, short courses of study, recreational courses, transit and medical treatment, and it normally allows a stay of up to 6 months.

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• Student visa

  The Student visa is the UK Home Office's study route, replacing the Tier 4 (General) student visa.

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• Youth Mobility Scheme visa

  The Youth Mobility Scheme visa is the UK Home Office's working-holiday route for young people from participating countries and territories, and for holders of certain types of British Nationality.

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