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UK Visas and Immigration guidance for staff based on Appendix Innovator Founder to the Immigration Rules, which is for experienced business people seeking to establish an innovative business in the UK.
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Published 29 March 2019 Last updated 13 April 2023 +show all updates
Updated guidance, including the replacement of the Innovator route with the Innovator Founder route.
This guidance has been updated to reflect: additions to the validation actions to take when an endorsing body is no longer active or no longer supporting a migrant at the time of consideration; additions to the cancellation actions to take when an endorsing body is no longer active or supporting a migrant that already has permission to stay in the UK; changes to the section granting and refusing entry and port.
Updated guidance for use on or after 6 April 2021.
Updated guidance.
Updated guidance to reflect change in Immigration Rules coming into force on 1 December 2020.
