TIER 5 VISA - TEMPORARY WORKERS

If you want to come to the United Kingdom to undertake short-term, temporary work there are specific arrangements for you.

Temporary workers - creative and sporting

The creative and sporting worker category is for people coming to the United Kingdom to work or perform as sports people, entertainers or creative artists for up to 12 months.

If you are a sports person, you must be internationally established at the highest level in your sport and or your job must make a significant contribution to the development and running of sport at the highest level in the United Kingdom.

If you are a coach, you must be suitably qualified to do the job.

Temporary workers - charity workers

The charity worker category is for people coming to the United Kingdom to do voluntary work for charity, which is not paid work.  The work must be directly related to the work of your sponsor's organisation.

Temporary workers - religious workers

The religious worker category is for people coming to the United Kingdom to work temporarily as a religious worker. 

Religious workers can do:

• preaching, pastoral work and non-pastoral work;
• work in the United Kingdom in the same way you are working in an overseas organisation (although your duties in the United Kingdom may be different). The job should be done during a break from your job overseas; or
• work in a religious order with community which involves a permanent commitment like a monastery or convent. The work in a religious order must be in the order itself or outside work directed by the order. You can apply if you are a novice whose training means taking part in the daily community life of the order.

Temporary workers - government authorised exchange

The government authorised exchange category is for people coming to the United Kingdom through approved schemes that aim to share knowledge, experience and best practice and experience the social and cultural life of the United Kingdom.  This category must not be used to fill job vacancies or to bring unskilled labour to the United Kingdom.

Your sponsor will be an overarching body who manages the government authorised exchange scheme.  This overarching body must have the support of a United Kingdom government department.

Individual employers and organisations will not be allowed to sponsor migrants in this category, even if they are licensed as sponsors under other tiers or other categories of tier 5. The only exception to this is if you are coming to the United Kingdom as a sponsored researcher, where the higher education insitution you are coming to work at will be your sponsor.

Any work you do must be skilled which means it must be equivalent to N or SVQ level 3 or above. This is unless you are taking part in the scheme set up as part of the European Union?s lifelong learning programme, where you can do vocational education and training at a lower skill level.

You are allowed to stay in the United Kingdom for up to 24 months under this category.

Temporary workers - international agreement

The international agreement category is for people coming to the United Kingdom under contract to do work that is covered under international law, including:

• the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS);
• similar agreements between the United Kingdom and another country;
• employees of overseas governments and international organisations; and
• private servants in diplomatic households.

If you think we can help you with your immigration situation, contact us to make an appointment. Call 02080902408 (Office) / 07869286490 (Mobile) or email info@systimesolutions.com or fill in the enquiry form.