Business visitor visas
Business visitor visas
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Business visitor visas
Who can apply for business visitor visas?
You will only need permission (known as 'entry clearance' or 'a visa') to come to the UK on a business visitor visas for up to six months if you are a visa national. If you are a non-visa national, permission to come for up to six months is not required on a business visitor visas. Multiple entry Business visitor visas are available for business visitors for six months, one, two, five and 10 years. Business visitors can only remain in the UK for up to a maximum of 6 months at a time on a multiple entry Business visitor visas before having to exit the UK before re-entering again to activate a further 6 months period on a one, two, five and 10 year Business visitor visas, exception to academic visitors. You can't switch into another category whilst in the UK as a business visitor? However you may do activities such as sports or entertainer visitor as well as business visitor activities. Applicants can bring dependants for up to six months. Dependants are classed as wives, husbands, civil partners, same sex partners, unmarried partners and child under the age of 18 years old. Dependants may need entry Clearance before they come.
Applicants must ensure they provide all necessary documentation at the time of submitting their application, and only accepted documents as specified. Applicants who fail to provide specified documentation; will not be contacted to request them. Therefore, applicants that fail to send the correct documents may be refused. All documentation used as evidence must be the original (not a copy) unless specifically said otherwise.
For your Business visa call us on 0845 2911229 for a quote
How to come to the UK on business visitor visas
To enter the UK on business visitor visas you must be able to show the following:
- maximum visit for up to six months;
- plan to leave the UK at the end of your visit;
- finiancial position for duration of stay
- do not intend to charge members of the public for services provided or goods received;
- do not intend to study;
- can meet the cost of the return or onward journey;
- proof of intention to leave UK at the end of your business visit
- Receive your salary from abroad.
You must also show how you plan to conduct your business activities whilst in the UK.
For your Business visa call us on 0845 2911229 for a quote
Others who can apply under business visitor visas:
- academic visitors (may enter or stay for 12 months maximum, subject to entry clearance if over six months);
- doctors taking the professional and linguistic assessment board (PLAB);
- doctors coming for clinical attachment or dentists coming for observation;
- Visiting professors accompanying students undertaking study abroad programs
- film crews on location shoots only, provided they are employed or paid by an overseas company;
- representatives of overseas news media, directly employed or paid by an overseas company and gathering information for overseas publication or programs
- secondment representatives from overseas companies;
- Religious workers undertaking some preaching or pastoral work during a business visit, provided their based abroad and are not relocating to the UK.
- interpreters and translators employed by an overseas company who are coming to the UK solely to accompany and provide a service to business visitors from the company;
- advisers, consultants, trainers or trouble shooters employed abroad by the same company to which the client firm in the United Kingdom belongs, provided this does not amount to paid or unpaid employment for the UK branch; and
- Persons undertaking specific, one-off training in techniques and work practices used in the UK, in certain circumstances. Persons coming to the UK for one-off training in other circumstances will need to apply as student visitors. Please contact us directly should this apply to you on 0845 2911229
Can I appeal if I am refused leave to enter on a business visitor visas?
In all circumstances we recommend you contact us directly as individual circumstances regarding submission of an application always dictates if you're in a position to appeal successfully or not. To find out call us on 0845 2911229