POINT BASIS REQUIRED FOR EVERY TIERS – IMMIGRATION SYSTEM IN UK.
Tier 1 Visa
This tier is for highly skilled individuals, entrepreneurs, investors, and graduate students from outside of the EU who can offer growth and progress in the UK. The candidate does not have to have a job offer to apply, just assessing points required for this tier. This tier has 3 routes:
- Graduate Entrepreneur: This route permits recent graduates to open a business in the UK.
- Investor: This route permits people who want to invest a minimum of 2000000 pounds in the UK.
- Exceptional Talent: This route permits people who have exceptional talent in their field of expertise.
- The visa holder can apply for a family visa if he can provide for them easily. The stay’s length is 3 years and 4 months and can be prolonged up to 2 years.
Tier 2 Visa
This visa is for skilled workers, professionals, sportspeople, and clergy members outside of the EU with a job offer so they can fill the labor gap in the UK. It has 4 main routes:
- General Visa: This is for those who have job offers within the UK.
- Intra-company transfer visa: This is for overseas companies who can transfer medium or high skilled staff to the same company within the UK.
- Ministers of religion visa: this is for migrants who have a pastoral role in taking employment in the UK in their religious community.
- Sportsperson visa: This is for sports personnel and coaches.
- This tier needs at least 70 points.
Tier 3 visa
This visa is for low-skilled workers who want to fill a specific labour shortage within the UK. But now it has been removed by the Uk government.
Tier 4 visa
- Child student visa: This is for children of ages 4 to 16 who want to apply to independent schools.
- general student visa: This is for post 16 education in the UK.
- The candidate must have at least 40 points for this visa tier.
Tier 5 visa
This visa has 6 sub-tiers of temporary workers, such as creative, sporting, charity, religious workers, youth mobility schemes, etc. It has 2 routes:
- Youth mobility scheme: this is for young migrants who can become familiar with the culture of the UK while temporarily working.
- Temporary workers visa: This is for other temporary workers.
The candidate must have 40 points in this tier.