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Apply for an Innovator Founder visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, extend or switch, bring your family.
You can apply for an Innovator Founder visa if: you want to set up and run…
Before you apply you need to have your business or business idea assessed…
You’ll usually need to prove your knowledge of the English language when…
When you apply you need to provide an ‘endorsement letter’ to show that an…
You must apply online for an Innovator Founder visa. Check which documents…
Your partner and children can also apply to join you or stay in the UK as…
You can usually apply to extend an Innovator Founder visa if both of the…
You might be able to apply to change (‘switch’) to an Innovator Founder…
List of authorised organisations for Innovator Founder and Scale-up visas.
Immigration staff guidance on how decisions are made about applications from Innovator Founders.
Apply for indefinite leave to remain if you have an Innovator Founder or Innovator visa - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.
Appendix Innovator Founder
How we will use your personal data if you respond to the founder survey, and what your rights are.
Guidance for Innovator Founder and Scale-up visa endorsing bodies.
Apply for a Start-up visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, switch to this visa, bring your family.
An independent study of spinouts from public sector organisations, commissioned by the Government Office for Technology Transfer.
Three members of the veterans community have received Points of Light awards as part of events to mark Armed Forces Week.
Tech Nation has become part of Founders Forum Group and will continue to assess digital technology applications for the Global Talent visa.
Priya Lakhani OBE is the Founder CEO of CENTURY Tech, an artificial intelligence education technology company that develops AI-powered learning tools for schools, colleges, universities and employers across the world. In 2008, Priya left her career as a barrister to...
Guidance for endorsing bodies operating under the legacy provisions for the Innovator Founder and Start up routes.
Sir Lloyd Dorfman is a British entrepreneur who founded Travelex in 1976, which became the world’s largest retail currency exchange business. After an agreement was reached to sell the business in 2014, he focused his attention on a variety of...
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