The Home Office launched the new Global Business Mobility visa category on 11 April 2022. It may provide overseas firms with new and alternative routes to transfer staff to the UK
These routes will enable an overseas business to temporarily send an employee/employees to the UK for a specific corporate purpose that could not be fulfilled by a resident worker. It will require employers to sponsor the workers they are bringing in under any of the routes.
Who will be able to use the Global Business Mobility route?
The Global Business Mobility visa category comprises the following five visa types for temporary workers from overseas firms:
- Senior or Specialist Worker – to meet specific business needs;
- UK Expansion Worker – to establish a UK presence;
- Graduate Trainee – to complete a structured training programme;
- Secondment Worker – to support high value contracts with UK firms or investments in the UK;
- Service Supplier – to transfer to the UK in line with UK trade agreements.
They are replacing existing visas such as the Intra-Company Transfer and Intra-Company Graduate Trainee visas, Representative of an Overseas Business and Temporary Work – International Agreement.
All routes under the Global Business Mobility category require the UK company (or in the case of a UK Expansion Worker visa the overseas company) to apply for, and be granted, a sponsor licence before any visas can be applied for.
Please click on the links above for further information regarding the new categories.
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