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Business Visitor Visa UK

The Business Visitor visa has been replaced with the Standard Visitor visa. You can apply for a UK Standard Visitor visa if you want to visit the UK for a short period of time (up to 6 Months) for business-related activities.

One of the key factors in the visitor visa entry clearance applications is to satisfy the Entry Clearance Officer (ECO) that the applicant has strong family, financial and social ties to the country of origin and therefore he will return to the country of origin upon visiting the UK.

You can apply for a Standard Visitor visa if you want to visit the UK for business-related activities, for example:

  • you're coming to the UK for a conference, meeting or training
  • you want to take part in a specific sports-related event
  • you're an artist, entertainer or musician and coming to the UK to perform
  • are an academic and are doing research or accompanying students on a study abroad programme
  • you're a doctor or dentist and are coming to the UK to take a clinical attachment or observer post
  • you want to take the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB) test or sit the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
  • you want to get funding to start, take over, join or run a business in the UK

UK Business Visitor visa requirements

You must meet the basic eligibility requirements to visit the UK and you must show that:

  • you'll leave the UK at the end of your visit
  • you're able to support yourself and your dependants during your trip (or have funding from someone else to support you)
  • you're able to pay for your return or onward journey (or have funding from someone else to pay for the journey)
  • you'll not live in the UK for extended periods through frequent or successive visits, or make the UK your main home

You must have a passport or travel document that is valid for the whole of your stay in the UK.

You must also only plan to do activities in the UK that are allowed under the Standard Visitor rules.

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