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The Scale-up Worker visa lets fast-growing UK businesses sponsor skilled workers. You need a high-skilled job offer from an approved scale-up sponsor for at least the first six months, after which you can work more freely without ongoing sponsorship. It can lead to settlement.
Skilled workers with a job offer from an approved high-growth (scale-up) UK employer.
Our licensed advisors assess your eligibility, build a strategy to strengthen your application, and manage the process end to end, so you submit a complete, competitive application with confidence.
Yes. After 5 years of continuous qualifying residence you can apply for indefinite leave to remain.
The Scale-up Worker visa requires a job offer from an approved scale-up sponsor, a high-skilled job, meeting the salary threshold, and English language proficiency, with varying costs and processing times that can be confirmed on the official government website.
Yes, in many cases you can switch into the Scale-up route from inside the UK if you have a qualifying job offer and meet the requirements.
Yes. You can study, take on additional work, be self-employed and do voluntary work, subject to the first 6-month sponsorship condition.
You must work for your sponsor in the qualifying role for the first 6 months, but after that you can change jobs or employers without telling the Home Office.
Yes. Your partner and children can apply to come to or stay in the UK as your dependants if they are eligible.
The first visa is granted for 2 years. You can then extend it in 3-year periods, with no limit on the number of extensions while you keep meeting the rules.
