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Tier 2 Scheme

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In order to apply under Tier 2 (General), you must meet all the following requirements:

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  • Your employer must have a Tier 2 sponsor licence

  • Your job must have a particular skill level

  • There is a minimum wage level of £20,800 (or £25,000 for certain applicants), though this depends on the job and can be higher

  • Usually the job must have been advertised as required by the Home Office, but most Tier 4 students who have graduated recently are exempt from this advertising requirement (the 'resident labour market test')

  • You have to prove that you have English language skills (you meet this requirement if you have a UK degree) and meet maintenance requirements

  • If you apply outside the UK, or if you apply in the UK and you have immigration permission as a Tier 4 partner, your job must score a minimum number of points

  • If you want to make your immigration application in the UK, you must meet certain additional requirements.


All of these requirements are explained in our information on this web page and in the Home Office's Tier 2 policy guidance.

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If you decide to apply under Tier 2, it is extremely important that you read the Tier 2 policy guidance before you make your immigration application.

 

If you do not provide the documents specified in the guidance, it is very likely that your application will be refused. If you are not sure whether you meet all the requirements for Tier 2, talk to the employer who has offered you a job and/or an immigration lawyer who specialises in Tier 2 immigration applications.

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Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur

 

The Graduate Entrepreneur scheme is aimed at recent graduates, and postdoctoral researchers who have Tier 2 immigration permission, who have 'genuine and credible business ideas and entrepreneurial skills' and whose UK college or university is prepared to endorse them under this scheme to help them develop these ideas.  

 

You can be endorsed by an institution other than the one at which you have studied.

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If you are a Tier 2 postdoctoral researcher, the relevant college or university (your endorsing body) must be your employer, but need not be the same institution that awarded your UK degree.

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If you are thinking about making an application under any of these schemes, and you want advice about the application, make an appointment with either an International Student Adviser or a Careers Adviser if they can offer such help. Some law centres, and other advice centres, have immigration specialists who will provide some basic advice free of charge. Some private solicitors also specialise in immigration law, although they will charge you a fee for their advice. 

 

Under many of the schemes, your spouse or civil partner, unmarried or same sex partner and children can apply to stay in the UK with you, or join you here.

 

Important

 

  • For some of the schemes, you might have to return to your home country to apply from there. This is because most of the schemes have strict rules about who is allowed to 'switch' from another immigration category (for example, 'student'), into the scheme whilst still in the UK.

  • For many of the schemes, you must have successfully completed your course before you can apply to 'switch' into the scheme.

  • If you want to stay in the UK under one of these schemes, you must make your application before your current permission to be here as a student expires.

  • If you have been sponsored by a government or international scholarship agency for your studies, most of the schemes require that you obtain their written consent before you apply to stay on in the UK.

 

 

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