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Eligible visas when applying from inside the UK

You can apply for a faster decision on certain visa applications or applications to settle in the UK.

These tables list the eligible applications and whether you can pay to get a faster decision:

  • within 5 working days
  • by the end of the next working day

There’s a limit on how many people can apply for a faster decision. If you’re not offered the option to apply for a faster decision, you can still complete a standard application.

Whether you can get a faster decision depends on what you’re applying for and how you prove your identity.

You’ll prove your identity by either:

  • attending an appointment at a UK Visa and Citizen Application Services (UKVCAS) centre
  • using the ‘UK Immigration: ID Check’ app to scan your identity document

You’ll find out if you can get a faster decision and what you need to do when you apply.

Eligible visa applications

UKVCAS appointment: within 5 working days UKVCAS appointment: next working day ID app: within 5 working days ID app: next working day
Child student visa Yes Yes  Yes Yes
Global Talent visa Yes Yes Yes Yes
Graduate Trainee - Global Business Mobility visa Yes Yes Yes Yes
Graduate visa No No Yes No
Health and Care Worker visa Yes Yes Yes No
High Potential Individual visa  Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hong Kong BNO visa Yes No No No
Innovator Founder visa Yes No Yes Yes
Intra-company visas Yes Yes No No
Investor visa (Tier 1) Yes No No No
Minister of Religion visa (T2) Yes Yes No No
Scale-up Worker visa Yes Yes Yes No
Secondment Worker - Global Business Mobility visa Yes Yes Yes Yes  
Senior or Specialist Worker - Global Business Mobility visa Yes Yes Yes Yes  
Service Supplier - Global Business Mobility visa Yes Yes Yes Yes
Skilled Worker visa Yes Yes Yes No
International Sportsperson visa Yes Yes Yes No
Student visa Yes Yes Yes Yes
Temporary Work - Charity Worker visa Yes Yes Yes No
Temporary Work - Creative Worker visa Yes Yes Yes Yes
Temporary Work - Government Authorised Exchange visa Yes Yes Yes Yes
Temporary Work - International Agreement visa Yes Yes Yes Yes
Temporary Work - Religious Worker visa Yes Yes Yes No
Temporary Work - Seasonal Worker visa Yes Yes Yes No
UK Expansion Worker - Global Business Mobility visa Yes Yes Yes Yes
Applying as the dependent child or partner on a work, student, global talent, start up or innovator founder visa Yes Yes No No
Applying as the dependent child or partner on an investor visa Yes No No No
Applying on the basis of family life as a partner, parent or dependent child or on the basis of private life in the UK (through form FLR(FP) or form FLR(M)) No Yes No No
Applying for human rights claims, leave outside the rules and other routes through form FLR(HRO) No Yes No No
Applying for other routes through form FLR(IR) No Yes No No

Eligible applications to settle in the UK

UKVCAS appointment: within 5 working days UKVCAS appointment: next working day ID app: within 5 working days
Application to settle on the basis of UK Ancestry (through form SET(O)) No Yes No
Application to settle as a former member of HM Forces (through form SET(AF)) No Yes No
Application to settle as a child under 18 (through form SET(F)) No Yes No
Application to settle if you’ve been in the UK legally for 10 continuous years (known as ‘long residence’) No Yes No
Application to settle if you work, establish a business or invest in the UK (through form SET(O)) Yes Yes No
Application to settle as the partner of a person, or parent of a child, who is present and settled in the UK (through form SET(M)) No Yes No
Application to settle as an Innovator Founder Yes Yes Yes
Application to settle as the dependent child or partner of an Innovator Founder Yes Yes No
Application to settle on the basis of BNO Hong Kong Yes No No
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