SCALE-UP VISA

The Scale Up visa has been designed to help qualifying UK businesses, with the potential for growth, to recruit skilled overseas workers more easily.
While scale-up workers must initially be sponsored, they will be able to change employers after 6 months, allowing them greater flexibility and choice than other sponsored work visas.
The scale up worker will be able to bring dependent family members to the UK, as in other work routes, including a dependent partner and dependent children. The primary visa-holder and any qualifying family members may also be able to eventually apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK, provided they meet the eligibility requirements for settlement.

Eligibility

To qualify for a Scale-up Worker visa, you must:

• Have a confirmed job offer to work for an approved scale-up business for at least 6 months.
• Have a ‘certificate of sponsorship’ from your employer with information about the role you’ve been offered in the UK.
• Have a job offer to do a job that’s on the list of eligible occupations.
• Be paid a minimum salary in your new job