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The Global Business Mobility Senior or Specialist Worker route is for overseas workers who are undertaking temporary work assignments in the UK, where the worker is a senior manager or specialist employee and is being assigned to a UK business linked to their employer overseas. This type of assignment is often called an intra-company transfer or ICT.

A partner and dependent children can apply to come to the UK on this route.

The Global Business Mobility Senior or Specialist Worker route is not a route to settlement.

Validity requirements for Global Business Mobility Senior or Specialist Worker (Senior or Specialist Worker)

1. SNR 1.1. A person applying for entry clearance or permission to stay as a Senior or Specialist Worker must apply online on the gov.uk website on the specified form as follows:
   1. (a) for applicants outside the UK, form Global Business Mobility visa; or
   2. (b) for applicants inside the UK, form Global Business Mobility.
2. SNR 1.2. An application for entry clearance or permission to stay as a Senior or Specialist Worker must meet all the following requirements:
   1. (a) any fee and Immigration Health Charge must have been paid; and
   2. (b) the applicant must have provided any required biometrics; and
   3. (c) the applicant must have provided a passport or other travel document which satisfactorily establishes their identity and nationality; and
   4. (d) the applicant must have a Certificate of Sponsorship that was issued to them by their sponsor no more than 3 months before the date of application.

SNR 1.3. The applicant must be aged 18 or over on the date of application.

SNR 1.4. An applicant applying for entry clearance or permission to stay as a Senior or Specialist Worker who has received an award from a Government or international scholarship agency in the 12 months before the date of application which covers both fees and living costs for study in the UK, must have provided written consent to the application from that Government or agency.

1. SNR 1.5. An applicant applying for permission to stay must be in the UK and must not have, or have last been granted, permission:
   1. (a) as a Visitor; or
   2. (b) as a Short-term Student; or
   3. (c) as a Parent of a Child Student; or
   4. (d) as a Seasonal Worker; or
   5. (e) as a Domestic Worker in a Private Household; or
   6. (f) outside the Immigration Rules.

1. SNR 1.5A. An applicant who is applying for permission to stay and has, or last had, permission as a Student, must fulfil one of the Conditions A, B or C below on the date of application:
   1. (a) Condition A: the applicant must have completed the course of study for which the Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies was assigned (or a course to which ST 27.3 of Appendix Student applies); or
   2. (b) Condition B:
      1. (i) the applicant must be studying a full-time course of study at degree level or above with a higher education provider which has a track record of compliance; and
      2. (ii) the Certificate of Sponsorship in SNR 1.2(d) must have a start date no earlier than the course completion date; or
   3. (c) Condition C:
      1. (i) the applicant must be studying a full-time course of study leading to the award of a PhD with a higher education provider which has a track record of compliance; and
      2. (ii) the Certificate of Sponsorship in SNR 1.2(d) must have a start date no earlier than 24 months after the start date of that course.

SNR 1.6. An application which does not meet all the validity requirements for a Senior or Specialist Worker is invalid and may be rejected and not considered.

Suitability requirements for a Senior or Specialist Worker

SNR 2.1. The applicant must not fall for refusal under Part 9: grounds for refusal.

1. SNR 2.2. If applying for permission to stay the applicant must not be:
   1. (a) in breach of immigration laws, except that where paragraph 39E applies, that period of overstaying will be disregarded; or
   2. (b) on immigration bail.

Eligibility requirements for a Senior or Specialist Worker

Entry requirements for a Senior or Specialist Worker

SNR 3.1. A person seeking to come to the UK as a Senior or Specialist Worker must apply for and obtain entry clearance as a Senior or Specialist Worker before their arrival in the UK.

SNR 3.2. A person applying for entry clearance as a Senior or Specialist Worker must, if paragraph A39 and Appendix T of these rules apply, provide a valid medical certificate confirming that they have undergone screening for active pulmonary tuberculosis and that this tuberculosis is not present in them.

Points requirement for a Senior or Specialist Worker

SNR 4.1. The applicant must be awarded 60 points based on the table below:

Points for Sponsorship for a Senior or Specialist Worker

1. SNR 5.1. The applicant must have a valid certificate of sponsorship for the job they are planning to do, which to be valid must:
   1. (a) confirm the applicants name, that they are being sponsored as a Senior or Specialist Worker, details of the job, salary and any allowances the sponsor is offering them (if applicable) and PAYE details if HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) requires income tax and national insurance for the sponsored job to be paid via PAYE; and
   2. (b) include a start date for the job, stated by the sponsor, which is no more than 3 months after the date of application; and
   3. (c) not have been used in a previous application which was either granted or refused (but can have been used in a previous application which was rejected as invalid, made void or withdrawn); and
   4. (d) not have been withdrawn by the sponsor or cancelled by the Home Office; and
   5. (e) unless the applicant is applying as a high earner, confirm that the applicant has worked outside the UK for the sponsor group for the period required at SNR 5.7.(b); and
   6. (f) confirm whether the Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) requirement in Appendix ATAS applies.

SNR 5.2. The sponsor must be authorised by the Home Office to sponsor a Senior or Specialist Worker.

SNR 5.3. The sponsor must be listed as A-rated on the Home Offices register of licensed sponsors, unless the applicant was last granted permission as a Senior or Specialist Worker and is applying to continue working for the same sponsor as in their last permission.

SNR 5.4. The sponsor must have paid in full any required Immigration Skills Charge.

1. SNR 5.5. The decision maker must not have reasonable grounds to believe the job the applicant is being sponsored to do:
   1. (a) does not exist; or
   2. (b) is a sham; or
   3. (c) has been created mainly so the applicant can apply for entry clearance or permission to stay.
2. SNR 5.6. The decision maker must not have reasonable grounds to believe the job the applicant is being sponsored to do amounts to:
   1. (a) the hire of the applicant to a third party who is not the sponsor to fill a position with that party, whether temporary or permanent; or
   2. (b) contract work to undertake an ongoing routine role or to provide an ongoing routine service for a third party who is not the sponsor, regardless of the nature or length of any arrangement between the sponsor and the third party.
3. SNR 5.6A. The decision maker must not have reasonable grounds to believe the job the applicant is being sponsored to do does not comply with the National Minimum Wage Regulations or the Working Time Regulations.
4. SNR 5.7. An applicant as a Senior or Specialist Worker must:
   1. (a) be currently working for the sponsor group; and
   2. (b) unless they are applying as a high earner must have worked outside the UK for the sponsor group for a cumulative period of at least 12 months.
5. SNR 5.8. In SNR 5.7.(b) the 12 months work outside the UK can have been accumulated over any period provided that:
   1. (a) the applicant was continuously working for the sponsor group , whether in or out of the UK, from the start of the 12 months to the date of application; and
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