Graduate visa Checklist

Complete an eligible qualification during the relevant Student permission at a provider with a track record of compliance. The provider must report successful completion to the Home Office by application; a graduation ceremony or award certificate is not required first. Check permitted course changes, listed professional qualifications and Sabbatical Officer rules.

Actual compliant sponsor/provider, course, notification by application, permitted change/professional/Sabbatical Officer branches.

GR4–GR5; successful completion

Where GR1.5 applies to a course completed in the 12 months before application and a government or international scholarship agency funded both fees and living costs, obtain that body's actual written consent to the application. Check the actual sponsorship and dates; an unsigned generated letter is not consent.

Where GR1.5 applies to a course completed in the 12 months before application and a government or international scholarship agency funded both fees and living costs, obtain that body's actual written consent to the application. Check the actual sponsorship and dates; an unsigned generated letter is not consent.

GR1.5

Apply in the UK before Student/Tier 4 (General) permission expires. GR1.3 requires current or last Student permission; GR2 suitability and any overstayer exception must be assessed separately. Expired permission does not automatically qualify.

Apply in the UK before Student/Tier 4 (General) permission expires. GR1.3 requires current or last Student permission; GR2 suitability and any overstayer exception must be assessed separately. Expired permission does not automatically qualify.

GR1.3; GR2.1–2.2; Introduction 6.2 Student definition; public Graduate guidance before-expiry application

You must pay the Immigration Health Surcharge as part of your application to access the National Health Service during your stay.

Actual Graduate validity requirement; separate identity, suitability, payment and decision workflow acceptance remains open.

GR1.2(a)

Partners normally must already have been Student/Tier 4 dependants. Children need eligible prior dependant status or the specified UK-born exception. Check age, relationship and actual status; new family members cannot generally join through Graduate.

Partners normally must already have been Student/Tier 4 dependants. Children need eligible prior dependant status or the specified UK-born exception. Check age, relationship and actual status; new family members cannot generally join through Graduate.

Your partner and children / actual occupation continuity child location conditions

ExistingStudentdependantsandUK-bornchildexception; notgeneralnewfamilyadmission.

You must be physically present in the UK at the time of your application, as you cannot apply for this visa from overseas.

Actual Graduate validity requirement; separate identity, suitability, payment and decision workflow acceptance remains open.

GR1.2(d)

For courses of 12 months or less, the relevant UK study period is the full course; for longer courses it is at least 12 months under the relevant Student permission. Check permitted study abroad and the precisely dated COVID distance-learning exceptions against GR6, using actual study history.

Relevant Student permission and course length (12 months or less includes exactly 12); permitted study abroad; date-specific GR6.2/6.3 COVID exceptions based on actual history.

GR6.1–GR6.3

You must not previously have been granted Graduate permission or permission under the Doctorate Extension Scheme. Prior course completion or a new degree does not reset this validity condition.

Previous actual grants as Graduate OR Doctorate Extension Scheme; no repeat-reset via new degree.

GR1.4