Common visa categories to the UK
1/ Visiting Visa
Please note that these forms are general information only. The visa officer may still ask you to submit additional documents if necessary.
Visiting Visa
- Go travel or visit friends in the UK
- Visiting relatives including parents to visit children who are studying in England
Transit Visa
- Conventional transit (Applicable for transit between two airports/ports in the UK, transfer of aircraft, immigration or stopover in the UK for less than 48 hours). This visa is for transit without entering the UK.
- Direct Transit (applicable in case of exchange of aircraft at a single airport in the UK without immigration)
- Crew – Crew
Business Visa
- Business usually
- Go to work research
- Doctors go by categories PLAB
- Doctors go by categories researcher, observer
- Dentists applying under researcher, observer
- Professors accompanying students to participate in the training program
- Applicants religious work
- People Get involved in sports.
- People engage in recreational activities
Special Visitor Visa
- Go with Purpose Healing
- Visiting with Purpose marriage
- Parents visiting their children is studying in the UK. This applies if your child is under 12 years old and is studying at a paid school
- Visa short-term schooling for those who wish to take a short-term course in the UK. Note that you must enroll with an educational institution that has been identified as a Tier 4 guarantor. Choosing this visa option means that you are not a student and are not allowed to work or extend your visa in the UK.
- Potential students
Long-term Visitor Visa
You may consider applying for long-term visa if you are visiting the UK frequently. Long-term visas include 1 year, 2 years, 5 years and 10 years. You should consider carefully before applying for a long-term visa because it is possible that the visa will be rejected or may only be granted with a shorter term. In both cases of rejection or shortening of the visa period, the fee is not refundable.
2 / Study visa
Short-term Study Visa
For those who want to take a course short-term study in the UK. Note that you must enroll with an educational institution that has been identified as a T4 sponsor. Choosing this type of visa means that you are not a student and are not allowed to work or extend your visa in the UK.
Normal (mature) T4 student visa and younger T4 student visa
Type of visa by T4 Area of the UK scale system will create more opportunities for students than the short-term study visa. Students under the T4 category are allowed to work part-time (usually up to 20 hours / week) and are allowed to extend their visa in the UK if necessary.
3/ Work visa
Please note that these forms are general information only. Your visa officer may still ask you to submit additional documents if necessary. You should also refer to: UK Immigration Law because your visa application will have to satisfy the conditions in this Law.
Visa to work with and without a license
- Work visa by work permit
- Work Visa without license
- Exclusive representative of a foreign company in the UK
- Chief representatives of foreign press agencies, news agencies and radio and television organizations - Household maid
T1- High Qualified Worker Visa
- People who go for investment purposes (T1 Investor) - for those who want to make a large financial investment in the UK.
- Business travelers (T1 Entrepreneur) - for those who want to invest by establishing a business or franchise and actively participate in running one or more businesses in the UK.
- Working after graduation (T1 Post-study work) - for those who have graduated from a school or academy in the UK no more than 12 months before the time of visa application and want to work in the UK for a certain period of time.
- General T1 Visa Guide
T2- Qualified Worker Visa
- Qualified workers in the ordinary category (T2 General skill worker) - for those who work in the UK under a job offer for a position that does not find a suitable person from domestic labor. This visa is also for those who want to go to the UK for temporary replacement work.
- Persons working for multinational companies (T2 Intra company transfer)- for those who are transferred from an overseas company to work for a higher level in the branch of this company in the UK.
- People related to the sports field (T2 Sportsperson) - for sports field participants and senior coaches, who make important contributions to the development of sports.
- Religious visa applicants (T2 Minister of religion) - for those who come to England to work at a higher level in a church or a religious organization
- General Guide to T2 Visa
T5- Young Worker and Temporary Worker Visa
- Creative Labor and Sports Field (T5 Creative and sporting) - for people who come to England to work or participate in sporting and recreational activities including athletes, singers, actors, artists, creative artists, etc. for a period of 12 months.
- Charity worker (T5 Charity worker) - for those who travel to the UK for unpaid charity work.
- People who go to do religious work (T5 Religious worker) - person who performs tasks such as preaching and assisting in religious organizations.
- Workers under the exchange program between the two Governments (T5 Government authorised exchange) - for people coming to the UK to work under the approved programme for the purpose of sharing experience, knowledge and applications.
- Persons working under international agreements (T5 International agreement) - for persons coming to the UK to work under a contract to provide services as provided for in International Law .
- Young workers rotation program (T5 Youth mobility scheme) - for young people in some countries participating in this scheme who want to explore life in the UK.
- General Guide to T5 Visa
4/ Immigration visa
Immigration by spouse, same-sex marriage
You need to apply for a visa by this category if you wish to settle in the UK with your spouse, partner, boyfriend or girlfriend who will be residing in the UK or who has been residing in the UK
Adoption settlement
Please see the instructions in the website of UKBA
Immigration under the guarantee of relatives
You apply for a visa by this category if you want to live in the UK with relatives who are residing in the UK
Settlement as an elderly depends on relatives living in the UK
If you are a grandparent, parent or relative who is living dependent on a relative who holds British citizenship or who is residing in the UK, you may apply for this visa if you wish to reside with them in the UK. Please see the instructions for this visa on the website of UKBA
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