United Kingdom

Take part in an approved work-experience, training, research, fellowship or overseas-language programme.

Transfer to a linked UK business for a graduate training programme leading to a senior or specialist role.

Take an eligible health or adult social-care job with the NHS, an NHS supplier or another approved care sponsor.

Perform work covered by international law or treaty, including certain overseas-government, international-organisation, contractual-service or diplomatic-household roles.

Accompany an overseas employer to the UK for a short visit as an established domestic worker.

Work in the UK as an employee of an overseas newspaper, news agency or broadcasting organisation posted on a long-term assignment.

Take an eligible high-skilled job with an approved UK scale-up business.

Perform eligible seasonal horticulture work or time-limited poultry production work.

Work temporarily in the UK under a qualifying high-value contract or investment secondment.

Transfer to a linked UK business as a senior manager or specialist employee.

Provide a service covered by a qualifying UK international trade agreement as an overseas employee or self-employed professional.

Take an eligible skilled job with a Home Office-approved UK employer.

Undertake work connected with establishing a UK branch or subsidiary of an overseas business that has not yet begun UK trading.

Establish and run an innovative, viable and scalable business endorsed by an approved body.

Work as a leader or potential leader in academia or research, arts and culture, or digital technology.

Work or seek work after obtaining a recent qualification from an eligible global university.

Study at an independent school in the UK while aged 4 to 17.

Remain after successful completion of an eligible UK course to work or look for work.

Study an English-language course lasting more than six months and no more than eleven months.

Study an eligible course with a licensed UK student sponsor.

Enter or remain as a child being adopted, already adopted or brought to the UK under a qualifying intercountry adoption arrangement.

Join a qualifying close relative in the UK where long-term personal care is required and unavailable or unaffordable in the country of residence.

Join a close relative with protection status where the child meets the specific protection-relative rules.

Enter the UK to join a qualifying EEA, Swiss or other eligible person under Appendix EU family-permit rules.

Join a qualifying spouse or partner with UK protection status under the protection-family reunion rules.

Join or remain with a qualifying parent in the UK.

Enter to marry or form a civil partnership with a qualifying UK-based partner and then apply for partner permission.

Join or remain to care for a qualifying child living in the UK.

Join or remain with a qualifying partner who is British, Irish, settled, protected or otherwise eligible under the family rules.

Accompany and care for a qualifying Child Student aged 4 to 11.

Settle after the death of a qualifying British, settled or otherwise covered partner.

Obtain indefinite leave after completing the applicable partner, parent or child family-life route.

Obtain indefinite status under Appendix EU after the qualifying residence or other protected condition.

Live, work and study in the UK as a British National (Overseas) ordinarily resident in Hong Kong, the UK or Crown Dependencies.

Remain where the applicant meets the child, young-adult, long-residence or very-significant-obstacles private-life test.

Return to settle after previous indefinite UK residence has lapsed through absence.

Live and work in the UK without immigration restriction where a statutory right of abode already exists.

Settle after at least ten years of continuous lawful residence on qualifying permissions.

Obtain or retain limited status under the Withdrawal Agreement as an eligible EEA or Swiss citizen or family member.

Continue qualifying UK work while primarily resident outside the UK under preserved pre-2021 frontier-worker rights.

Live, work and study in the UK under Common Travel Area rights as an Irish citizen.

Live and work temporarily in the UK after selection in the India Young Professionals Scheme ballot.

Live and work temporarily in the UK as an eligible young national or territory passport holder.

Perform unpaid voluntary fieldwork for a UK charity.

Work temporarily in the UK creative sector as a performer, entertainer, musician, model or production worker.

Take a leading pastoral role, missionary post or qualifying role in a UK faith community.

Perform temporary non-pastoral religious work or work in a religious order.

Travel to the UK without a visa for an eligible visit, transit or permitted short purpose.

Come to the UK to marry, form a civil partnership or give notice without settling.

Visit for tourism, family, business, permitted study, medical treatment or another permitted visitor activity.

Request international protection in the UK because return would expose the person to persecution or another qualifying serious harm.

Enter under the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme with an eligible UK-based sponsor.

Remain where return would create a qualifying real risk of serious harm despite the refugee definition not being met.

Remain and work temporarily after recognition as a victim of modern slavery while holding or having held qualifying Overseas Domestic Worker permission.

Remain after recognition as a refugee under the Refugee Convention and UK rules.

Settle after completing the qualifying protection period and continued protection assessment.

Settle where a qualifying partner relationship permanently broke down because of domestic abuse.

Remain after formal determination that the applicant is stateless and cannot be admitted to another country.

Remain temporarily where permission is necessary for recovery, cooperation with authorities or pursuit of compensation after a positive trafficking or slavery decision.

Enter under the limited UK-France transfer pilot after a successful expression of interest and entry-clearance process.

Extend eligible existing Ukraine Scheme permission from within the UK.

For a person aged 18 or over, born on or after 1 July 1979, who is the child of a Hong Kong BN(O) status holder or of that holder's partner; a partner and children may come as dependants.

For a Commonwealth citizen, British overseas citizen, British overseas territories citizen, British national (overseas) or citizen of Zimbabwe aged 17 or over with a grandparent born in the UK, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the pre-1922 Irish Free State.

Enter for planned healthcare covered by a qualifying S2 arrangement.

Work or coach at elite level where the sport's governing body endorses the contribution.

Pass through the UK en route to another country.

Settle as an eligible pre-July-1997 Gurkha or Hong Kong military-unit veteran or qualifying family member.

Enter, remain or settle under the immigration provisions for non-British HM Armed Forces members and qualifying family.

Enter or remain for a qualifying NATO, visiting-force, Australian Department of Defence or international civilian assignment.

Enter as an officially notified member of a qualifying head-of-state or head-of-government delegation.