United Kingdom

Tier 1 Visa – High-value migrants

This category is for extraordinarily talented applicants and highly qualified employees who want to come to the UK and live without a job offer or sponsorship. In the United Kingdom, high-value migrants include innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, highly skilled professionals, and post-graduates. Global Talent Visa, Innovator Visa, Entrepreneur Visa, and Highly Skilled Migrant Programme are some of the categories that come under this (HSMP).

Tier 2 Work Permit for Skilled Workers

Candidates who have a competent job offer in the UK, such as physicians, engineers, management consultants, social workers, accountants, and so on. These candidates’ prospective employers should be willing to sponsor them. This category includes categories such as Skilled Worker Visa (replacing Tier 2 General), Tier 2 (Minister of Religion), Tier 2 (Sportsperson), and Tier 2 (Intra-company Transfer).

Temporary workers

This visa category is intended to allow temporary employees to travel to the United Kingdom for short-term and temporary work. Temporary employees include those involved in the arts and sports, charity, religion, government-approved exchange, and international agreements.

Other categories

Applicants may also come to the UK to work as a domestic worker, as the sole representative of an overseas firm (only extension), or as a representative of an overseas newspaper, news agency, or broadcasting organization, or on a BNO visa, Ancestry visa, High Potential Individual visa, or Youth Mobility Scheme visa route. These are not point-based categories.