A new visa introduced for graduates from top non-UK universities

News highlights

• A new pathway for international graduates opens to migrate to UK
• Alumni of top non-UK universities to benefit from the new scheme
• Graduates/PGs of top-ranked universities aimed at

The road to the UK is now open to graduates/Ph.D. holders from the world’s top non-UK universities. A new visa scheme called the “high-potential individual” route is now ready to rope in the best and the brightest of individuals for employment in the UK.

The new scheme is available to alumni of the top non-UK universities who will get a UK work visa valid for a period commensurate to the degree they have. Graduates will get a UK work visa that is valid for 2 years and Ph.D. holders will get a work visa lasting 3 years. And they won’t need a job offer from the UK to qualify for migration.

Regarding job outlook in UK, refer to Job outlook in the UK for 2022.

Under this new scheme, such graduates will be allowed to switch to a long-term employment visa if they meet certain criteria. There won’t be any limit on the number of eligible graduates welcome under this scheme.

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 How can you qualify for this new scheme?

To qualify, you must have attended a university that has been enlisted in the top 50 of at least 2 of the following rankings in the year in which they graduated:

• Times Higher Education World University Rankings
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities
• The Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings

Here are some of the universities ranked in 2021 that qualified under this scheme:

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	USA
Cornell University	USA
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
Karolinska Institute	Sweden
McGill University	Canada
New York University (NYU)	USA
Peking University	China
Tsinghua University	China
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	USA
University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
University of Munich (LMU Munich)	Germany
University of Tokyo	Japan
Yale University	USA
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong
Duke University	USA
Harvard University	USA
Kyoto University	Japan
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore
Northwestern University	USA
Princeton University	USA
University of British Columbia	Canada
University of California, San Diego	USA
University of Melbourne	Australia
University of Pennsylvania	USA
University of Toronto	Canada
Columbia University	USA
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL Switzerland)	Switzerland
Johns Hopkins University	USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
National University of Singapore	Singapore
Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University	France
Stanford University	USA
University of California, Berkeley	USA
University of Chicago US	USA
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	USA
University of Texas at Austin	USA
University of Washington	USA

The new visa will cost £715. The immigration health surcharge will also apply which is paid to get access to the NHS in the UK. Under this scheme, graduates could bring their families. However, it will be required that they have minimum maintenance funds of £1,270.

Other formalities you will have to undergo will include passing a security and criminality check. You should also prove your English proficiency of at least at the B1 intermediate level. At this level, you will be expected to be fluent enough to communicate effortlessly with native speakers in the UK.

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 Comments on the new route

"The route means that the UK will grow as a leading international hub for innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship.”

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

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