UK immigration route hub
Work visas
Routes for sponsored employment, talent, temporary work and eligible graduates.
Foundational guides
Understand the main published routes
Choose a guide to see the route’s purpose, important features and current official source. This is not a personal eligibility assessment.
Skilled Worker visa
A sponsored work route for an eligible job with a Home Office-approved UK employer.
Health and Care Worker visa
A sponsored route for eligible medical professionals and adult social-care workers.
High Potential Individual visa
An unsponsored work route for recent graduates of eligible global universities.
Scale-up Worker visa
A work route that begins with an eligible job from an approved scale-up business and later provides greater work flexibility.
Youth Mobility Scheme visa
A temporary route allowing eligible young people from participating countries and territories to live and work in the UK.
India Young Professionals Scheme visa
A ballot-based temporary route for eligible Indian citizens aged 18 to 30 to live and work in the UK.
UK Ancestry visa
A five-year route for eligible Commonwealth and specified British nationals with a qualifying UK-born grandparent.
Minister of Religion visa
A sponsored route for eligible religious leadership, missionary or religious-order roles in a UK faith community.
International Sportsperson visa
A sponsored route for elite sportspersons and qualified coaches whose employment develops their sport at the highest UK level.
Seasonal Worker visa
A temporary sponsored route for eligible horticulture work and time-limited poultry work.
Creative Worker visa
A temporary sponsored route for eligible creative-sector work such as performance, production or technical support.
Charity Worker visa
A temporary sponsored route for unpaid voluntary fieldwork that directly supports a UK charity’s purpose.
Religious Worker visa
A temporary sponsored route for eligible non-pastoral religious work or work in a religious order.
Government Authorised Exchange visa
A temporary sponsored route for approved training, work experience, research, fellowship or overseas-government language programmes.
International Agreement Worker visa
A temporary route for qualifying work covered by international law or treaty obligations.
Overseas Domestic Worker visa
A short route for eligible domestic workers accompanying an overseas employer to the UK.
Frontier Worker permit
A permit for eligible EU, EEA or Swiss citizens who began working in the UK by the end of 2020 while primarily living elsewhere.
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Requirements, fees and processing times can change
Use our guide to understand the landscape, then read the current official page for the route and application location.
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