Types of UK Business Visa

The UK is a nation where the business is uninterruptedly flourishing, which is attracting overseas entrepreneurs and investors. Due to the high attention of businesspersons to travel or settle in the UK, there is a diversity of UK Business visas, as follows:

• Standard visitor visa for businesspeople.
• Innovator visa.
• Start-up visa.
• Exceptional Talent visa (Tier 1).
• Graduate Entrepreneur visa (Tier 1).
• The investor visa (Tier 1).
• The representative of a Foreign Business visa.
• Turkish Entrepreneur visa.

Categories of UK Business Visa

There is a diversity of UK Business visas, as follows:

Standard visitor visa for businesspeople: The UK Standard Visitor Visa has swapped the earlier Business Visitor Visa, along with numerous UK visa categories. Individuals who desire to travel to the UK for business, for short-term can apply for this visa. The principal activities that an entrepreneur visiting the UK on a Standard Visitor visa can achieve are as follows:

• Appear in conferences, meetings, workshops, interviews within the UK.
• Quick series of talks and speeches.
• Negotiate and sign contracts and agreements.
• Go to trade fairs, for publicity work only, providing the visitor is not directly selling.
• Carry out site visits and reviews.
• Collect info for their employment overseas.
• Be well-versed on the necessities of a UK based customer, providing any work for the customer is completed outside of the UK.

You can remain in the UK for a maximum of six months with a UK Standard Visitor Visa.

Innovator visa: The UK innovator permit is for stockholders who wish to start a business in the UK or undertake activities of an already established business. Qualified for application are all non-EEA and non-Swiss citizens. For those wishing to set up a business, an investment fund of at least £50,000 is required. There are other admissibility standards, as well. If you are applying for this visa, you should verify you have the required means of subsistence, come across the English Language necessity and be at least 18 years of age. You can remain in the UK for a maximum of three years with a UK Innovator Visa. You can then apply for an extension prior to its expiration. After five years in the UK with this permit, you can appeal for settlement in the UK.

Start-up visa: If you wish to begin a business in the UK as a non-EEA and non-Swiss citizen, you can appeal for a UK Start-Up Visa. The core standard is that an official body should recommend you that is either a UK higher education institute or a business institution with a record of supporting UK businesspersons. You can remain in the UK for a maximum of two years with a UK Start-Up Visa.

Exceptional Talent visa (Tier 1): If you work in a qualifying area and have been recommended as a known leader or an evolving leader, you can appeal for Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa. The appeal procedure contains two key steps:

• Recommendation by the home office
• Visa appeal. You can remain in the UK for a period of five years and four months if you apply outside the UK and for up to five years if you apply within the UK.

Graduate Entrepreneur visa (Tier 1): The Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur visa is basically for graduates who have been legitimately recommended as having a good and reliable business idea. The Graduate should have been recommended by a UK higher education body or the Department for International Trade (DIT) as part of the best international graduate entrepreneur program. The Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur visa allows you to remain in the UK for one year on Tier 1. You can extend the visa for an extra one year.

The investor visa (Tier 1): You can appeal for a UK Tier 1 Investor Visa if you desire to invest a minimum of £2,000,000 in the UK, and you are a non-EEA and non-Swiss national. You can stay in the UK with a Tier Investor Visa for up to three years and four months. You can also lengthen the visa for an additional two years.

The representative of a Foreign Business visa: You can appeal for a Representative of a Foreign Business visa if you are from outside of the EEA and Switzerland. It would help if you came across one of the following:

• You are the solitary representative of a foreign business which is planning to start a branch in the UK or an only preserved subsidiary for a foreign parent company.
• You are a worker of a foreign medium, as a newspaper, a news agency or a broadcasting association, with a long-term task in the UK.

This visa allows you to remain in the UK for an initial period of 3 years. You can then appeal for an extension of two years. Afterwards five years in the UK, you can request for a settlement visa.

Turkish Entrepreneur visa: Turkish citizens that wish to begin a new business in the UK or to help run an established business in the UK require to apply for a Turkish Entrepreneur visa. There is no visa charge, and the initial legalized period of stay is for one year.  The candidate can then extend the permit for an additional three years.