Visitors Visa
Visitors Visa
The Standard Visitor visa has replaced the:
- Family Visitor visa
- General Visitor visa
- Child Visitor visa
- Business Visitor visa, including visas for academics, doctors and dentists
- Sports Visitor visa
- Entertainer Visitor visa
- Prospective Entrepreneur visa
- Private Medical Treatment Visitor visa
- Approved Destination Status (ADS) visa
You can apply now Standard Visitor visa for:
- Tourism, including visiting family and friends
- business, including sports and entertainment
- transit through the UK
- academic visit, including teaching, exchange and visiting as a dependant of an
academic visitor - marriage or civil partnership
- private medical treatment
If you visit the UK on business
You can apply for a Standard Visitor visa if you want to visit the UK for business
related activities, for example:
- You’re coming to the UK for a conference, meeting or training
- You want to take part in a specific sports-related event
- You’re an artist, entertainer or musician and coming to the UK to perform
- Are an academic and are doing research or accompanying students on a study
abroad programme - You’re a doctor or dentist and are coming to the UK to take a clinical
attachment or observer post - You want to take the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB) test
or sit the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) - You want to get funding to start, take over, join or run a business in the UK