UK Global Business Mobility
United Kingdom
Residency
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See if you're a match →UK Global Business Mobility visas are temporary work routes for people being assigned to the UK by an overseas employer or contract relationship. They can fit senior or specialist transfers, UK business expansion, and service-supplier work, but generally do not lead directly to settlement.
- Type
- Work permit or work residence
- Work fit
- People with a qualifying work route in the United Kingdom
- Core requirements
- Eligible citizenship, job terms, and route-specific documents
- What to know
- Often temporary and route-specific
Summary
UK Global Business Mobility is a group of temporary work routes for people being sent to the UK through an overseas employer, overseas business expansion, or qualifying service contract. The main routes include Senior or Specialist Worker, UK Expansion Worker, Service Supplier, Graduate Trainee, and Secondment Worker.
These routes are useful for business assignments, but most do not lead directly to settlement. They are not ordinary job-seeker routes.
Eligibility
You may be a fit if:
- You are not already a British or Irish citizen.
- You have an overseas employer, overseas business, or qualifying service-supplier arrangement.
- A UK sponsor can issue a Certificate of Sponsorship.
- The UK work fits one of the Global Business Mobility categories.
- You meet the relevant overseas-work, occupation, salary, contract, or professional-experience rules for that category.
- You meet identity, suitability, financial, and document requirements.
What This Route Allows
The route can allow temporary work in the UK for the sponsoring business or assignment. Dependants may be able to come in some cases.
What This Route Is Not
- A route to settlement in most cases.
- A general route for finding a job in the UK.
- A route that works without a UK sponsor.
- A replacement for Skilled Worker when the UK job is ordinary local employment.
Next Steps
- Identify which Global Business Mobility route fits the assignment.
- Confirm the UK sponsor and Certificate of Sponsorship.
- Check the route-specific overseas work, occupation, salary, and contract rules.
- Gather identity, employment, sponsorship, and financial evidence.
- Apply before the Certificate of Sponsorship expires.