United Kingdom
Innovator Visa
Innovator visa is an ideal route for entrepreneurs with a new innovative project who wish to start a company in the United Kingdom or experienced businessmen that have been running a business outside the United Kingdom for many years and wish to expand it to the UK. To be eligible for Innovator visa you need to invest in a new business idea, which means you are not allowed to join or invest into an already established business. Innovator visa leads to settlement and eventually to British citizenship.
Capital City
London
Visa free countries
5 (UK & Republic of Ireland)
Total area
242,495 km²
Languages
English
Currency
Pound Sterling £
Population
65 million (2017)
Time Zone
Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)


Fast priority processing in as little as 5 days-3 weeks.
No minimum investment required
2 year temporary residency visa
No minimum stay requirement
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Application Process


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Submit the application


Receive your residency permit
UK Innovator Visa
Application Process
You must be able to invest at least £50,000 into a new company. If you submit the application with other entrepreneurs and form a team, each of you must have access to £50,000. The source of funds can be any. However, if the endorsement letter confirms that at least £50,000 funds are available, there is no need to provide any other evidence.
Requirements
- You must be at least 18 years of age.
- Your business idea must be endorsed.
- A valid business plan that shows the business is Innovative, Scalable, and Viable.
- Have at least £1270 to support yourself, plus £285 for a dependent partner, £315 for a first child and £200 for each additional child
- A clean criminal record
- You must be of good health.
Other requirements:
- After 3 Years you can apply for permanent residence (ILR) assuming you can meet two of the following requirements
- At least £50,000 has been spent on running a UK company;
- Significant increase in the number of customers, higher than the market average;
- Research and development activities, patents;
- Gross revenue of £1 million in the last year;
- See all requirements in our factsheet
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