Select a visa category

You will be shown more information once you select a category, click 'Next' and enter the country you are applying from.

Join or accompany a family member, who either is already in or will be travelling to the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man (and you cannot apply on any other form)

Apply as the family member of someone who is part of one of the following categories:

work (non points-based)
armed forces
exempt from immigration control
study

settled in the UK
British citizen
has limited leave to enter or remain in the UK
other

If you are a dependant of someone who is applying for, or already has a points-based work visa, you should apply here.

Armed forces subject to immigration control and dependants, international civilian employees, HM Armed Forces service leaver or a bereaved family member of certain Armed Forces

Apply to come to the UK as:

Armed Forces subject to immigration control (formerly known as course F) and dependants
bereaved family member of someone who was a member of HM Armed Forces under appendix HM Armed Forces
former HM Armed Forces
former Gurkha or Hong Kong military unit veteran discharged before 1997
international civilian employee (NATO forces, the Australian defence department, the American National Red Cross or a federal employee, contracted or sub-contracted personnel of the US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Security Administration deployed to work with US Forces)
widow of a former Gurkha or Hong Kong military unit veteran discharged before 1997

Other work visas for the UK (non points-based working visas)

Apply to work in the UK as:

an airline employee
a continental shelf worker
a representative of an overseas business
a sheep shearer

Click here if you want to apply for points based work visas

Visit, study, work or settle in certain Commonwealth countries or British overseas territories

Apply for a visa to travel to the following places:

Gibraltar
Jamaica
Turks and Caicos

Return to the UK if you:

were removed, deported or left the UK and have won an appeal against an immigration decision made by the Home Office, or
were last granted permission as a partner under the family or Armed Forces route (for example Appendix FM, Appendix AF, Appendix Family Life: Partner) or a partner of a person with refugee status and are seeking to return to the UK as:
- a victim of domestic abuse who has been abandoned outside the UK; or
- a child of a person who is a victim of domestic abuse who has been abandoned outside the UK.

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