United Kingdom

• UK Expansion Worker Visa benefits:
• work for your sponsor in the job described in your certificate of sponsorship
• study
• bring your partner and children with you as your ‘dependants’, if they’re eligible
• do voluntary work
• travel abroad and return to the UK
• UK Innovator Founder visa:
• set up a business or several businesses
• work for your business – this includes being employed as a director, or self-employed as a member of a business partnership
• do work outside your business, as long as it is ‘skilled work’ – for example, a job on the Skilled Worker eligible occupations list or a job needing at least a level 3 qualification
• bring your partner and children with you as your ‘dependants’, if they are eligible
• travel abroad and return to the UK
• apply to settle permanently in the UK (also known as ‘indefinite leave to remain’) if you have lived in the UK for 3 years and meet the other eligibility requirements

UK Expansion Worker visa investment:

• A UK Expansion Worker visa allows you to come to the UK to set up a branch of an overseas business that has not started trading in the UK yet.
• You must already work for the overseas business as either a senior manager or specialist employee.

UK Innovator Founder visa Investment:

You can apply for an Innovator Founder visa if:

• you want to set up and run an innovative business in the UK – it must be different from anything else on the market
• your business or business idea has been endorsed by an approved body, also known as an endorsing body