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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 this visa if your overseas employer is transferring you to the…
To be eligible for a Secondment Worker visa, you must: be an existing…
When you apply for a Secondment Worker visa, you’ll need to have enough…
When you apply you’ll need to provide: your certificate of sponsorship…
You must apply online for a Secondment Worker Visa. Check which documents…
Your partner and children can also apply to join you or stay in the UK as…
You can apply to extend your Secondment Worker visa from inside the UK if…
You’ll need to apply to update your Secondment Worker visa if your job…
You might be able to apply to change (‘switch’) to a Secondment Worker…
How a civil servant can apply for interchanges: a secondment in an external organisation or a placement in another government office (loan).
International secondment opportunities with the FCO, for serving and retired police, and civilian experts.
Sets out the principles the CMA and sector regulators may follow when considering secondments between each other.
Details of FCO's current secondment opportunities.
Find out how to work out VAT on supplies of staff including supplies made by staff bureaux.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Michael Ford, Deputy Judge of the High Court on 19 December 2025.
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