Guidance Notes

Please click on the category of visa you require more information on. If your application falls outside any of the following categories please contact the Call Centre or Visa Application Centres' staff for advice as to what category you should apply under:

• Visitors
• Academic visitors
• Transit
• Direct Airside Transit Visa (DATV)
• Students and dependants
• Spouses, fiance(e)s, unmarried partners, civil partnership
• Family members
• Work permit holders and their dependants
• Permit free employment
• Overseas domestic workers
• Working holidaymakers
• Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP)
• Setting up a business in the UK
• Investors
• EEA nationals
• UK ancestry
• Sponsors
• Public funds
• UK resident permits
• The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands
• Dependant Territories & Commonwealth Countries
• Travellers to Ghana
• Knowledge of Life Test