Overview

A Senior or Specialist Worker visa allows you to come to or stay in the UK to do an eligible job at your employer’s UK branch.

This visa has replaced the Intra-company Transfer visa, previously the Tier 2 (Intra-company Transfer) Long-term Staff visa.

 

Eligibility

To qualify for a Senior or Specialist Worker visa, you must:

• be an existing employee of an organisation that’s been approved by the Home Office as a sponsor

• have a ‘certificate of sponsorship’ from your employer with information about the work you will do in the UK

• do a job that’s on the list of eligible occupations

• be paid at least £42,400 per year

 

How long you can stay

You can stay in the UK with a Senior or Specialist Worker visa for whichever is shorter of:

• the time given on your certificate of sponsorship plus 14 days

• 5 years

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With a Senior or Specialist Worker visa you can:

• work for your sponsor in the job described in your certificate of sponsorship

• study

• bring your partner and children with you as your ‘dependants’, if they’re eligible

• do voluntary work

travel abroad and return to the UK