UK visa and immigration fees have increased from today, 4 October 2023.
The increases affect a number of UK immigration applications made from this date, including:听
- Skilled Worker visa听
- Student visa听
- Graduate visa听
- Government Authorised Exchange visa听
- Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement)听
- Naturalisation as a British Citizen听
- Visitor visa听
The new fees are available via .
For the Skilled Worker and Government Authorised Exchange visas, hiring/managing departments will also need to be aware that the Certificate of Sponsorship (COS) fees have also increased:听
- Skilled Worker 拢239 per COS听
- Government Authorised Exchange 拢25 per COS听
In addition to the visa fees, the Home Office announced plans to increase the Immigration Health Surcharge. A date has not been provided for this but it is anticipated this will be introduced later in the Autumn. For further details on the Health Surcharge, please see .
The ability to attract, successfully recruit and retain talented individuals from a global market is important to the achievement of our University Strategy. The University therefore provides assistance with the costs incurred in making visa and immigration applications where this is a requirement of working for the University, including an interest-free loan up to 拢10k to support newly appointed staff in meeting these expenses, and reimbursement of certain visa application and Immigration Health Surcharge costs. For further details, please see the 鈥榁isa and Immigration Costs Assistance鈥� policy via the HR Immigration and visas webpage.听
If you have any questions on the visa and immigration costs assistance policy, please contact Ask HR:听
- Raise a ticket through鈥�听
- Call Ask HR鈥痮n ext 27547 (dial A-S-K-H-R) or 023 8059 7547 if calling from outside the University听
- 贰尘补颈濒鈥�Ask_HR@soton.ac.uk鈥�听