Get Sponsored to work at the University of Salford

When your application processing time begins

 UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) starts processing your application once you either:

• Verify your identity and submit your documents and application online using the UK Immigration: ID Check app. We’ll tell you if you can use this service.
• Attend your appointment at a visa application centre (VAC) to provide your fingerprints and a photograph (biometric information)

1. Skilled Worker visa: For applications made in the UK, this can take up to 8 weeks to process. From outside the UK, this can process can take up to 3 weeks.
2. Government Authorised Exchange visa: 3 weeks
3. Global Talent visa: 3 weeks 

You will need to have a tuberculosis  test at a UKVI approved clinic if you are coming to the UK for more than six months and are a resident in any of these listed countries. If your test shows you do not have tuberculosis you will be given a certificate that is valid for six months. You will need to include this certificate with your UK visa application. 

You do not need to apply for a tuberculosis certificate if:

• You are a diplomat accredited to the UK.
• You are a returning UK resident and have not been away for more than two years.
• You lived for at least six months in a country where tuberculosis screening is not required by the UK, and you have been away from that country for no more than six months.
  
   

If you have dependants who have accompanied you to the UK, they will not require a Certificate of Sponsorship, but they will need to apply for an extension of their visa in the UK. 

The Home Office guidance on partner and children dependants should be referred to. 

Dependants normally apply for their visa extension at the same time as the main applicant. 

Their details can be included in the main applicant’s online visa application to form a ‘Family group’ application.

The online application will ask whether any dependants are applying, and the details are added by specifying whether they are a 'dependant partner or spouse' or a 'dependant child'. When applying as a ‘Family group’ the combined visa fees for all those applying must be paid as one amount, the combined NHS Surcharge must also be paid. Where dependants are applying from within the UK separately from the main applicant each dependant will need to submit their own separate online application. 

• Do not travel whilst your visa application is pending, as this will automatically cancel your application.
• Any documents not transcribed in English must be accompanied by a fully certified translation.