UK Tier 1 Investor Visa

About UK Tier 1:

• This is a temporary residency permit for the United Kingdom, which allows you to eventually receive permanent residency and citizenship of the UK.
• The Tier 1 Investor Visa is intended for individuals who are prepared to invest at least £2,000,000 in the UK economy. The UK’s immigration policy encourages direct investments and offers investors from third countries the most favorable conditions for receiving a residency permit, followed by permanent residency and citizenship.

Benefits:

• Live in the UK year-round –You and your family members will have the right to live in the UK, do business, work, study for free, and enjoy all the other rights of UK residents.
• You don’t need to prove English skills-An applicant for a UK investor visa does not have to prove a knowledge of English and does not have to show funds for his/her family to live in the UK.
• Several ways of investment without running a business-When obtaining a visa, you do not need to start a business and prove real efforts in this vein. The investor only has to choose an investment option.
• Receive permanent residency and citizenship in the future
• Work or study
• Apply to settle after 2 years if you invest £ 10 million
• Apply to settle after 3 years if you invest £ 5 million
• Apply to settle after 5 years if you invest £ 2 million

Who Can Benefit:

• The main investor
• his/her spouse
• any underage children

The visa is initially issued for three years with a following extension for two years. Only the main applicant is required to spend at least 183 days per year in the UK.

Eligibility:

• You must have at least £2,000,000 investment funds to apply for a Tier 1 (Investor) visa.
• You must be 18 or over to apply for this visa
• be able to prove that the money belongs to either you or your husband, wife, unmarried or same-sex partner
• have opened an account at a UK regulated bank to use for your funds
• Your funds must be – held in one or more regulated financial institutions
• free to spend (‘disposable’) in the UK
• Your money can be in the UK or overseas when you apply.

Condition Precedent:

• Making an investment in the UK economy of £2,000,000, £5,000,000 or
  £10,000,000 in one or several ways:
• British corporate bonds
• Shares in British companies
• Investing in the capital of operating companies that are registered in the UK

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