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The Health and Care Worker Visa category allows doctors, nurses and other medical professionals of all nationalities (except British and Irish) to enter or remain in the UK to do an eligible job with the NHS, an NHS Supplier or to work in Adult Social Care.
If you’re permitted to enter or stay in the UK as a Health and Care Worker, you will be able to apply for indefinite leave to remain after 5 years. You will also be permitted to have your partner and children join you in the UK as your dependent.
Prior to your application for a Health and Care Worker Visa, you must have obtained a job offer from an approved UK employer that holds a sponsor licence. Approved employers are also referred to as sponsors because they are sponsoring you to enter or remain in the UK.
The job offer you present in support of your application for a Health and Care Worker Visa must be from:
The NHS
An organisation providing services to the NHS
An organisation providing adult social care
If your sponsor is not currently approved, they can apply for a sponsor licence which will be granted to them subject to their meeting the eligibility requirements for Sponsor licence (https://www.gov.uk/uk-visa-sponsorship-employers) applications
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You are over the age of 18 at the date of application
You are a qualified doctor, nurse, health professional or adult social care professional
You work in an eligible health or social care job
Your proposed UK employer has been approved by the UK Visas and Immigration
You have secured a Certificate of Sponsorship from a UK employer that contains key details regarding the role you are taking up with the UK employer
You are paid the required minimum salary the extent of which depends on the type of work you do
You are able to demonstrate knowledge of English Language to the required level
You are able to demonstrate that you hold sufficient funds to maintain yourself in the UK unless your employer is A-rated and it has ‘certified’ your maintenance
The specific requirements, that may be applicable to you, will differ depending on your circumstances. You may wish to seek expert advice from an immigration lawyer
To qualify for a Health and Care Worker Visa, you must demonstrate to the UK Visas and Immigration that you will be employed in one of the following occupations:
1181: health services and public health managers and directors
1242: residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors
2211: medical practitioners
2213: pharmacists
2215: dental practitioners
2218: podiatrists
2221: physiotherapists
2112: biological scientists and biochemists
2113: physical scientists
2212: psychologists
2214: ophthalmic opticians
2217: medical radiographers
2219: health professionals that are ‘not elsewhere classified’, such as audiologists and occupational health advisers
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