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Senior or Specialist Worker visa (Global Business Mobility)

Updated: Aug 6, 2023

A Senior or Specialist Worker visa allows you to come to or stay in the UK to do an eligible job at your employer’s UK branch. This visa has replaced the Intra-company Transfer visa, previously the Tier 2 (Intra-company Transfer) Long-term Staff visa.


To qualify for a Senior or Specialist Worker visa, you must:

  • be an existing employee of an organisation that’s been approved by the Home Office as a sponsor

  • have a ‘certificate of sponsorship’ from your employer with information about the work you will do in the UK

  • do a job that’s on the list of eligible occupations

  • be paid at least £42,400 per year


You can stay in the UK with a Senior or Specialist Worker visa for whichever is shorter of:

  • the time given on your certificate of sponsorship plus 14 days

  • 5 years

You can apply to extend your visa or apply for another one as many times as you like up to the maximum total stay.


If you’re already in the UK with an Intra-company visa or a Tier 2 (Intra-company Transfer) Long-term Staff visa you can apply to extend your stay as a Senior or Specialist Worker.


The maximum total stay allowed for a Senior and Specialist Worker visa is:

  • 5 years in any 6 year period if you’re paid less than £73,900 a year

  • 9 years in any 10 year period if you’re paid £73,900 a year or more

Any time you spend in the UK on one of the following visas will be included in your maximum total stay:

  • Intra-company Graduate Trainee visa

  • Intra-company Transfer visa

  • Graduate Trainee visa (Global Business Mobility)

  • Secondment Worker visa (Global Business Mobility)

  • Senior or Specialist Worker visa (Global Business Mobility)

  • Service Supplier visa (Global Business Mobility)

  • UK Expansion Worker visa (Global Business Mobility)

If you had a Tier 2 (Intra-company Transfer) Long-term Staff visa before 6 April 2011

You can stay in the UK for as long as your employer is sponsoring you if you’ve been in the UK since 6 April 2011 on any of the following visas:


Tier 2 (Intra-company Transfer) Long-term Staff visa

Intra-company Transfer visa

Senior or Specialist Worker visa (Global Business Mobility)

There is no maximum stay.




+44(0)7548856403

Email: office@arukvisa.co.uk

Immigration and Visa Advice and Services – https://www.arukvisa.co.uk/



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