Permit Free Employment

• Ministers of religion, missionaries or members of a religious order
  
  
  • Foreign nationals who have been working for at least one year in the last five years as a minister of religion or, where ordination is the only way in their religious faith to enter the ministry, they must have been ordained as a minister of religion after at least one year's full-time or two years' part-time training for the ministry
    
    
  • Foreign missionaries who must have been trained or worked as a missionary and been sent to the UK by an overseas organization
    
    
  • Foreign members of a religious order who are coming to the UK to live in a community funded by the religious order of which they are a member
    
    
• Sole representative of an overseas company in the UK
  
  
  • Foreign nationals employed outside the UK as a representative of a firm that has its headquarters and carries out most of its business outside the UK, and which has no branch, subsidiary or other representative in the UK coming to the UK as a senior employee with full authority to take decisions on behalf of the overseas firm and are not a majority shareholder in that overseas firm
    
    
• Representatives of overseas newspapers, news agencies and broadcasting organizations
  
  
  • Foreign nationals employed by an organization outside the UK and their posting to the UK must be a long-term assignment as their representative and intend to work full-time as a representative of that overseas newspaper, news agency or broadcasting organization
    
    
• Airport-based operational ground staff of overseas-

  owned airlines

  
  
  • Foreign nationals who have been transferred to the UK by an overseas-owned airline, which operates services to and from the UK, to work at an international airport as a station manager, security manager or technical manager
    
    
• Postgraduate doctors and dentists (for training purposes) including those attending Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB) tests
  
  
  • Foreign nationals having a UK degree in medicine or dentistry who have spent at least 2 years in the UK studying for their medical or dental degree and have a letter from the Postgraduate Dean responsible for their training to confirm that they have been offered a full-time place on a Foundation Programme in the UK
    
    Note: If a government or international sponsorship agency sponsored their studies at medical or dental school, they must have the sponsor's consent to undertake a Foundation Programme in the UK
    
  
  
• Teachers and language assistants coming to the UK under approved exchange schemes
  
  
  • Foreign nationals coming to an educational establishment in the UK under an exchange scheme approved by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Scottish or Welsh Office of Education or the Department of Education, Northern Ireland, or administered by the British Council's Education and Training Group or the League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers
    
    

• Seasonal agricultural workers

  
  
  • Foreign nationals, coming to the UK as a seasonal worker at an agricultural camp, who are studying in full-time education abroad and aged 18 or over having a valid Home Office work card issued by the operator of an approved scheme
    
    
• Writers, composers and artists
  
  
  • Foreign nationals who have built a reputation outside the UK and are mainly involved in producing original work, which has been published (not just in newspapers and magazines), performed or exhibited for its literary, musical or artistic merit and have supported themselves and their dependants for the last year from their own income without working, except as a writer, composer or artist
    
    
• Overseas government employees
  
  
  • Foreign nationals who are employed by an overseas government or by the United Nations organization or other international organization of which the UK is a member
    
    
• Science and engineering graduates
  
  
  • Foreign nationals who have graduated from a UK university or other educational institution in the last 12 months with a bachelor's degree (second-class honours or above), masters degree or PhD in an approved subject and intend to work during their 12-month stay
    
    Note: Foreign science and engineering graduates must have written permission from their official sponsor to return to the UK for employment if their studies were sponsored by an overseas government or international scholarship agency
    
    

• Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme

  
  
  • Foreign nationals who graduated from a Scottish university or other Scottish educational institution in the last 12 months with an HND, a bachelor's degree (BA or BSc), a master's degree (MA) or a PhD, have lived in Scotland for an appropriate period of time while studying and intend to look for work in Scotland
    
    Note: They must have written permission from their official sponsor to return to the UK for employment if their studies were sponsored by an overseas government or international scholarship agency

Immigration Service Includes:

• Full Review of your personal circumstances
  
  
• Confirmation that Permit Free Employment is appropriate for you
  
  
• Checklist of documents that you need for your Permit Free Employment
  
  
• Accurate preparation of your visa application
  
  
• Submission of your visa application to the proper government agencies
  
  
• Careful co-ordination of all correspondence with government agencies
  
  
• Expert advise on how to handle yourself at your interview, and what to expect
  
  
• Online access to your case status
  
  
• Unlimited personal communication with your own VisaPro immigration adviser
  
  
• Fast, easy and secure processing through your
  

  personal online VisaPro account

Services Do Not Include:

• Judicial review
  
  
• Appeals from adverse initial decision
  
  
• Deportation proceedings
  
  
• Any certification to the successful outcome of the

  case

Notes

• If you are a fully qualified doctor or dentist and you want to take up employment or higher specialist training, you will need a work permit. Apply for Work Permit
  
  
• For Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS), the total number of seasonal workers recruited each year is restricted. There is no limit to the number of times you can take part in the scheme, as long as you still meet the necessary requirements, and it is at least three months since your last stay in the UK. Apply for Permit Free Employment under Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS)
  
  Note: You will not be allowed to switch into seasonal agricultural work after you come to the UK
  
  
• Foreign nationals posted to a business in the UK owned by an overseas government (such as a state-owned shipping company) do not qualify as Overseas Government Employees and they must get a work permit. Apply for Work Permit
  
  
• 'Writers' include authors, essayists, playwrights, poets, and journalists who have built reputations as literary figures, for example journalists who have had their journalistic work published in books. If you are not one of these workers, you will need a work permit. Apply for Work Permit
  
  
• 'Composers' means composers of music. If you want to perform someone else's work or perform as part of a band, you will need a work permit. Apply for Work Permit
  
  
• 'Artists' include painters, sculptors, photographers of international reputation, and cartoonists and illustrators whose work has been published or exhibited for its artistic merit. If you want to exhibit or sell your work in the UK, you qualify under this section, even if you do not want to stay in the UK
  
  Note: If you are a craftsman, an architect, or a designer you do not qualify unless you are mainly involved in producing original work that has been published or exhibited on its own merits
  
  
• The information provided here is applicable to New Permit Free Employment or Renewal of Permit Free Employment. Apply for New Permit Free Employment or

  Permit Free Employment Renewal

We thoroughly review your circumstances, select appropriate visa and submit an accurate application to the necessary
Government Agencies.