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Charity Worker
This route is for a person who wants to enter the UK to do voluntary work with a charitable organisation for no more than 12 months.
Creative Worker
This route is for a person who wants to work within the creative sector (for example, as an artist, dancer, musician or entertainer, or as a model in the fashion industry) in the UK for up to 12 months (with the possibility to extend for up to a maximum of 24 months if working for the same sponsor).
Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee
This is for employees being transferred to the UK by their overseas employer as part of a graduate training programme for a managerial or specialist role with their overseas employer. It has replaced the Intra-Company Graduate Trainee route.
Global Business Mobility: UK Expansion Worker
This is for overseas workers establishing a branch or subsidiary of their overseas employer in the UK; it has replaced the (unsponsored) sole representative provisions of the Representative of an Overseas Business route.
Global Business Mobility: Service Supplier.
This is for overseas workers providing a service under contract to a UK business as a contractual service supplier or an independent professional under an eligible trade agreement; it has replaced the provisions for contractual service suppliers and independent professionals on the International Agreement route.
Global Business Mobility: Secondment Worker
This is for overseas workers being seconded to the UK as part of a high-value contract or investment by their overseas employer.
Government Authorised Exchange Worker
This route is for a person who wants to enter the UK on an approved scheme for a period of no more than 12 or 24 months (depending on the scheme).
International Agreement Worker
This is for a person who wants to enter the UK to provide a service covered under international law, such as private servants in diplomatic households, employees of overseas governments and international organisations, or under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) or another agreement under which the UK has commitments. Workers sponsored on this route can stay in the UK for a maximum period of between six months and two years, depending on the international agreement.
Religious Worker
This is for a person who wants to support the activities of religious institutions in the UK by conducting religious work, such as working in a religious order or undertaking non-pastoral work for a religious organisation, for a maximum of two years. The work must not include employment as a minister of religion.
Scale-up
This route allows employers who are in a sustained period of high growth to recruit people to work in the UK in highly skilled roles.
Seasonal Worker
This is for workers in edible horticulture doing seasonal work in the UK with a sponsor (who must be an approved scheme operator) for up to six months in any 12-month period or, for poultry work, for a period of time commencing no earlier than 3 October and ending no later than 31 December each year.
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