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Apply for a Senior or Specialist Worker visa to work for your employer’s UK branch - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
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You must apply online for a Senior or Specialist Worker visa. Check which…
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Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens.
Employment rates for different ethnic groups in England, Wales and Scotland.
UK visa sponsorship information for employers - requirements, certificates and licences for Workers and Temporary Workers.
Guidance for employers. You need to have a sponsor licence to hire workers from outside the UK.
Apply for a Temporary Work – Government Authorised Exchange (GAE) visa for work experience, training, research or fellowship - eligibility, extend or switch, family members
This report identifies initiatives which attract and develop indigenous or ethnic minority employees in the public sector workforce
Find out how to prove your right to work in the UK to an employer. Get an online share code to prove your right to work if you’re eligible or check what documents you can use instead.
This report focuses narrowly on one potential economic effect, the impact on the employment of existing UK residents.
Apply for a Temporary Work - Creative Worker visa to work in the UK in the creative industry - eligibility, extend, bring your family.
Guidance for employers on employing someone outside the UK.
Apply for a Skilled Worker visa (formerly a Tier 2 General work visa) if you’ve been offered a skilled job with a UK employer - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children, taking on additional...
Apply for a Scale-up Worker visa if you’ve been offered a skilled job with a fast-growing UK employer - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
Check if you need a visa or permit to work in Germany and how to get one if you do.
Find out how to work out and make PAYE deductions for employees who come to work in the UK.
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