Check if you need a UK visa: Information based on your answers
You'll need a visa to work, do business or academic research in the UK
The visa you need to apply for depends on your circumstances.
Business or academic visits
You can apply for a Standard Visitor visa if you’re coming to the UK for certain business or academic activities, such as:
- going to meetings or conferences
- doing academic research
- doing certain paid engagements or events (a ‘permitted paid engagement’) for UK-based organisations
Working in the UK
A work visa may be suitable if you want to work in the UK for a short time:
- in sports
- in arts or entertainment
- as a volunteer for a charity
- in a work experience or research and training programme
- for a religious organisation
- in a seasonal horticulture job, for example picking fruit, vegetables or flowers
- as a domestic worker in a private household
- in a senior or specialist role in your overseas employer’s UK branch
- in a graduate trainee role at your overseas employer’s UK branch
- to provide services to a UK company as part of an international trade agreement
- as part of a high-value contract between your overseas employer and a UK organisation
- to provide a service on behalf of a Swiss company
- in a skilled job
- in a fast-growing UK business (sometimes known as a ‘scale-up’ business)
You can also apply for an international agreement visa if you’ll be doing work covered by international law while in the UK (for example, working for a foreign government or as a private servant in a diplomatic household).
Your answers
- What’s your nationality as shown on your passport or travel document?
- India
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- What are you coming to the UK to do?
- Work, academic visit or business
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- How long are you planning to work in the UK for?
- 6 months or less
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