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Get a visa fee waiver if you’re applying for permission to stay in the UK and you cannot afford to pay the application fee. Apply if you're joining a partner or parent, as a refugee or if you have humanitarian...
Apply for a Secondment Worker visa to work for a UK organisation as part of a high-value contract - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
Apply for a Temporary Work - Religious Worker visa to do religious work in the UK - getting sponsored, fees, eligibility, family members
Apply for a Temporary Work - Creative Worker visa to work in the UK in the creative industry - eligibility, extend, bring your family.
Apply for an International Sportsperson visa if you're an elite sportsperson or coach with sponsorship - getting sponsored, eligibility, documents, extend your visa, family members
Apply for a Temporary Work - Charity Worker visa to do unpaid charity work - eligibility, documents, family members
Apply for a Service Supplier visa to provide a service under contract for a UK company - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
How to get married or form a civil partnership in the UK, giving notice of marriage at a register office, visas, paying fees.
Apply for a Start-up visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, switch to this visa, bring your family.
Apply to come to the UK as a representative of a news agency, newspaper or news agency and you’re from outside the EEA and Switzerland - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, extend and switch.
Visa data by local authority in separate tables for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Apply to extend your Entrepreneur visa (Tier 1), bring your family.
Apply for an Innovator Founder visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, extend or switch, bring your family.
Check how quickly you’ll receive a decision on your UK visa application if you're applying from inside the UK.
Guidance for Ukrainian nationals and their immediate family members to come to the UK under the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme.
Check if you need a tuberculosis (TB) test to support your visa application and find an approved clinic in your country
You can apply for a Parent of a Child Student visa if your child attends an independent school in the UK.
Who can apply to the scheme, how the application process works, and the checks that authorities must complete.
You can apply for indefinite leave to remain if you're in the UK on a Turkish Worker visa or a Turkish Businessperson visa.
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