Table of Contents
- Points Based Immigration Pathways
- Eligibility - Skilled Worker Route
- Salary and Skills Threshold
- VisaConnect London, UK - Office
Points Based Immigration Pathways
1. Skilled Worker Route - Applicant has a job offer from a Home Office licensed sponsor, at the appropriate salary level.
2. Global Talent Route - This Route has opened to EU citizens on the same basis as non-EU citizens. This means the most highly skilled, who can achieve the required level of points, will be able to enter the UK without a job offer if they are endorsed under the Global Talent Visa by a recognised UK body, as approved by the Home Office.
3. Graduate Route - The Graduate Visa will be available to international students who have completed a degree in the UK from summer 2021. This will enable international students to remain in the UK and work at any skill level for two years after they have completed their studies or three years if they have completed a Phd. It will be an unsponsored route.
4. Intra-Company Transfer - The ICT route allows multinational organisations to facilitate temporary moves into the UK for key business personnel through their subsidiary branches, subject to compliance with ICT sponsorship requirements.
5. Start-up and Innovator - These routes are designed to attract entrepreneurial talent and innovative, scalable business ideas to the UK.
6. Creative route - This route is for applicants in the creative industry, with a Job offer, who are entering the United Kingdom for short-term contracts or engagements for up to 12 months.
7. Sporting routes - International sportspeople must have a confirmed job offer and their employment sponsored by a UK employer licenced by the Home Office. Note that a new International Sportsperson visa route for professional athletes coming to work in the United Kingdom will launch on 11 October 2021. Obtaining immigration permission under the route is still a two-stage process: 1. Obtain a governing body endorsement (GBE) from the governing body for the relevant sport; and 2. Apply for entry clearance or permission to stay under the International Sportsperson visa route.
8. Seasonal Workers Pilot - The Seasonal Workers Pilot is currently running until the end of 2021 enabling the recruitment of a limited number of temporary workers for specific roles in the horticultural sector.
9. Youth Mobility Scheme - The UK has arrangements in place with eight countries and territories to enable around 20,000 young people to come to the UK to work and travel each year. Applicants must be 18 to 30 years old and can stay up to two years.