Find your United Kingdom visa.

For people visiting the UK for tourism, to see family, for business meetings or short-term study.

For people who want to come to the UK to get married or register a civil partnership but not settle.

For people with a job offer from a UK employer holding a sponsor licence in an eligible skilled occupation.

For qualified doctors, nurses, health professionals and adult social care workers with an NHS or eligible care sponsor.

For senior managers or specialist employees transferring to a UK branch of their overseas employer.

For employees on a graduate training programme transferring to a UK branch of their overseas employer.

For senior managers or specialists sent to set up a UK branch of an overseas business with no trading presence yet.

For contractual service suppliers or self-employed professionals providing services under a UK trade agreement.

For workers seconded to the UK as part of a high-value contract or investment by their overseas employer.

For talented individuals with a high-skilled job offer from an authorised fast-growing UK scale-up business.

For leaders or emerging leaders in academia, research, arts, culture or digital technology.

For recent graduates of top global universities who want to work or look for work in the UK.

For experienced entrepreneurs establishing an innovative, viable and scalable business in the UK.

For people aged 16 or over with a place on an eligible course at a licensed UK education provider.

For children aged 4 to 17 attending an independent fee-paying school in the UK.

For international students who have completed an eligible UK degree and want to stay to work or look for work.

For young people from participating countries and territories who want to live and work in the UK.

For partners of British citizens or settled persons who want to live in the UK with them.

For a parent coming to or staying in the UK to care for their child who is British or settled.

For Commonwealth citizens with a grandparent born in the UK who want to work in the UK.

For artists, entertainers, musicians and creative workers with a UK sponsor for short-term work.

For people doing religious work such as preaching or working in a religious community on a temporary basis.

For religious ministers, missionaries or members of a religious order taking a role within a UK faith community.

For people doing unpaid voluntary work for a UK charity on a temporary basis.

For elite sportspeople and coaches endorsed by their sport's UK governing body.

For people coming to the UK for short-term roles in horticulture (edible and ornamental crops) or poultry.

For people coming to the UK for work experience, training or research through an approved exchange scheme.

For BN(O) status holders from Hong Kong and their family members who want to live, work and study in the UK.

For EU, EEA and Swiss citizens and their family members who were resident in the UK by the end of 2020.

For people who have completed the qualifying period on an eligible route and want to settle permanently in the UK.

For settled residents who meet the residence and good character requirements to become British citizens.

For people in the UK who fear persecution in their home country and seek protection as a refugee.

For domestic workers accompanying their employer to the UK for a short visit.

For EU, EEA or Swiss citizens who work in the UK but live mainly in another country.

For high-net-worth individuals investing in the UK; closed to new applicants since February 2022.

For early-stage entrepreneurs with an endorsed business idea; closed to new applicants and replaced by Innovator Founder.

For senior employees setting up a UK branch of an overseas company; closed and replaced by UK Expansion Worker.