Requirement;Explanation

You are aged 18 or over;You will not be eligible for this Visa if you are under 18. You have a valid Certificate of Sponsorship for the job you are planning to do;Certificate of Sponsorship will need to have been issued by an employer that is authorised by the Home Office. Your sponsor must be listed as A-rated on the Home Office’s register of licensed sponsors. It must include certain mandatory information, including details of your name, job and salary, a start date which is no more than 3 months after the date your Skilled Worker visa application. Your job offer is a genuine vacancy;You must undertake a genuine vacancy and are capable of undertaking the role for which your Certificate of Sponsorship has been assigned. If there are reasonable grounds to believe that the job you are being sponsored to do does not exist, is a sham or has been created mainly so that you can apply for a Skilled Worker Visa then your application will be refused. Your sponsor has paid any required Immigration Skills Charge;The Immigration Skills Charge is a charge for each foreign worker that a sponsoring employer seeks to employ. The Immigration Skills Charge must be paid each time a sponsoring employer assigns a Certificate of Sponsorship to a migrant. Your job is at an appropriate skill level;Under the Skilled Worker Visa route, the role you are looking to fill must be skilled to at least RQF level 3, which is roughly equivalent to A-levels. You do not need to hold a formal qualification in order to satisfy the skills level requirement. It is the skill level of the job that you will be doing that will determine whether the threshold is met. You are competent in the English language;You must have at least CEFR Level B1 (equivalent to IELTS 4.0). You will be paid a salary which equals or exceeds both a general salary threshold and the ‘going rate’ for the occupation;The general salary threshold under the Skilled Worker route is £25,600 a year. Therefore, in most cases an applicant for a Skilled Worker Visa must be paid a salary which equals or exceeds £25,600 a year and 100% of the going rate for the occupation, whichever is higher. The assessment of salary is based on guaranteed basic gross pay. You have enough money to support yourself without relying on public funds;You will need to have cash funds of at least £1,270 available.You will need to have held the money for at least 28 consecutive days ending not more than 31 days before the date of your Skilled Worker Visa application. You have provided a criminal record certificate (if applicable);In most cases you will be required to provide a criminal record certificate of the country of your residence after the age of 18. You have provided a valid TB certificate (if applicable);You will be required to provide a TB certificate if you are a citizen of a country from a certain list.