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- Eligibility - High Potential Individual Visa
- Eligible Universities
- Benefits - High Potential Individual Visa UK
- VisaConnect London, UK - Office
Eligibility - High Potential Individual Visa
From 30 May 2022, the UK government opened a "highly selective" visa scheme for graduates of the world's top-ranked universities, which it hopes will enhance the country's skill base.
The eligibility criteria for the High Potential Individual visa route are as follows:
- Highly skilled overseas talent to support "growth and innovation"
- Open to bachelors, masters or PhD graduates from institutions on a "Global Universities List" of 50 institutions
- The list, published by the Home Office annually, will feature institutions outside the UK that are ranked in at least two of three renowned rankings. The rankings part of the initiative are: Times Higher Education World University rankings; Quacquarelli Symonds World University rankings; and The Academic Ranking of the World Universities
- Institutions likely to feature on the list include those such as ETH Zurich in Switzerland, Canada's University of Toronto, The University of Tokyo of Japan and a range of top-ranked institutions in the US.
- Qualifications must have been awarded no more than five years before the date of the application
- The visa will last for two years for bachelors and masters grads, and three years for PhD holders