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Tier 5 (GAE) |
- Sponsored researchers
- Visiting academics
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Yes |
- Comply with UK employment law, including National Minimum Wage Act
- Be sponsored
- Be able to comply with Home Office maintenance requirements
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- Be filling a normal post or a genuine vacancy.
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Permitted Paid Engagement (PPE) |
Visiting examiners, assessors and lecturers who are coming to:
- give a lecture or series of lectures (but not undertake a formal teaching role),
- examine students, or
- to participate in or chair selection panels
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1 |
Yes |
- Be paid
- Have an invitation.
- Work must relate to their expertise / qualifications and full-time overseas occupation.
- Intend to leave the UK at the end of their visit
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- Be filling a normal vacancy.
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Academic Visitor |
- A person on leave from an overseas academic institution who wishes to come to the UK to make use of their leave to carry out their own private research or exchange information on research techniques. This may include some collaboration with staff at the host university or use of facilities.
- An academic (including doctors) taking part in an arranged exchange. For example, where a UK university is collaborating with an overseas university on research and exchange staff for some or all of the duration of the project (although any salary is paid by the academic's own overseas institution).
- An eminent senior doctor or dentist, (i.e. someone considered to be top of their field of expertise) coming to take part in research, teaching or clinical practice.
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12 |
Only reasonable travel & subsistence expenses. No salary. |
- Intend to leave the UK at the end of their visit.
- Be able to maintain themselves and any dependants without having recourse to public funds or work.
- Be able to meet the cost of the return or onward journey from the UK.
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- Receive funding for their work from any United Kingdom source (payments of expenses, including travel or honoraria to cover their needs whilst in the UK may be disregarded, as may payments on an exchange basis).
- Intend to take employment or engage in any work other than the academic activity for which they are being admitted.
- Be filling a normal post or a genuine vacancy.
- Normally be a recent graduate
- Be entering to study for an academic qualification (these must come in on Tier 4)
- Be on sabbatical leave from a private research company
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Business Visitor |
- People attending interviews (where prior arrangements have been made for the interview)
- People attending a conference or meeting
- Speaking at a conference on a one-off, non-commercial basis
- People receiving specific one-off training in UK techniques & work practices (but not on-the-job training)
- Secondees from overseas companies who have a contract with a UK company, provided they are being paid by the overseas company.
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6 |
Only reasonable travel & subsistence expenses. No salary. |
- Intend to leave the UK at the end of their visit.
- Be able to maintain themselves and any dependants without having recourse to public funds or work
- Be able to meet the cost of the return or onward journey from the UK
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- Receive funding for their work from any United Kingdom source (payments of expenses, including travel or honoraria to cover their needs whilst in the UK may be disregarded, as may payments on an exchange basis).
- Intend to take employment or engage in any work other than the activity for which they are being admitted.
- Be filling a normal post or a genuine vacancy.
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