Youth Mobility Visa UK from India

Youth Mobility Scheme is a new immigration route for young adults from different countries who intend to experience life and culture in the United Kingdom. It is a scheme in which an applicant aged 18-30 can stay and work in the UK for a good 2 years of the period. It has replaced the existing route T5 (Temporary Worker), and applicants can start applying for this visa program.

Recently, the UK greenlighted 3,000 Visas for Indian nationals confirming the UK India Young Professions scheme. The scheme will allow 18-30 years old graduated Indian citizens to participate in a professional and cultural exchange. The confirmation came hours after PM Modi and Rishi Sunak’s brief meeting, making India the first visa-national country benefitting from the scheme.

Indian applicants are now eligible to apply for the visa. Applicants can start forwarding their applications, and the decision will be made according to the Immigration Rules enforced on 31 December 2021.

Immigrants under this route can seek employment during this tenure and work without sponsorship. Certain limitations to this route are that immigrants cannot bring in their dependents along with them. They’ll have to apply separately. Within 2 years, they can get a sponsorship for Skilled Worker Visa and switch the route.

Before applying, check the requirements of the documents. The applicants will also have to pay the healthcare surcharge as part of their application. Check how much to pay before applying.

The applicants applying for the visa from outside the UK must apply online. As part of the application, applicants are required to prove their identity. This depends on where they’re from and their passport type.

The applicants will have their fingerprints and photographs taken at a visa application centre. This is to get a biometric residence permit. The applicants will have to use the ‘UK Immigration: ID Check’ app to scan their identity document - you’ll also create or sign in to their UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) account.

The applicants will be told what they need to do when they apply.

In case of an appointment, the centre may need to keep the passport and documents while they process the application. The applicants may have to travel to their nearest visa application centre (this could be in another country).

If the applicants have a child while they’re in the UK, they do not automatically become a British citizens.

They can apply online for their visa as dependents on the applicants. The applicants must do this if they want to travel in and out of the UK with their child.

It is also necessary to provide a full UK birth certificate for each child, showing the names of both parents.

• Applicant must be between 18 and 30 years of age at the time of application.
• Applicants can apply for the visa 6 months before the travel.
• Applicant must be a citizen from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, Monaco, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, and San Marino.
• Applicant must be a British Overseas citizen, British Overseas Territories citizen or British National (Overseas).
• Applicants from India must have at least a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 3 years of professional work experience from a Skilled Occupations list in the UK. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-skilled-occupations
• Applicant must have funds of £2,530 in the form of Savings or Fixed deposit for 28 days within the 31 days of the application.
• Applicant must not have children under 18 years, financially dependent on them.
• Applicant must not have previously entered the UK on the Youth Mobility Scheme route.
• The applicant will have to pay the visa application fee and IHS at the time of Visa application, along with the required Biometric information.
• Applicants must have taken a tuberculosis test from the country where they must take it.
• Applicant must not have any visa refusal under the general grounds for refusal.
• Applicants must prove their identity and provide their documents as part of their application.
• Once applied online, prove your identity and provide your documents, you’ll usually get a decision on your visa within 3 weeks.
• The applicants must have at least £2,530 in their bank account to show they can support yourself in the UK.

• Visa Fees: £259
• Immigration Health Surcharge – Currently £470

Every year the UK home office allocates a certain amount of migrants allowed to travel from migrating countries. Below is the number of migrants from the participating countries and territories allowed under the Youth Mobility Scheme.

• Applicant with a successful visa grant under Youth Mobility scheme can enter and remain in the UK for a period of up to 2 years.
• Migrant under this visa can enter and leave the UK any time. If he/she turns 31 during that period, applicant still stay till his/her visa is valid.

Applicant cannot request an admin review if the visa is refused under Youth Mobility Scheme.

• Applicant with a valid visa under Youth Mobility Scheme will have no access to public funds.
• Applicant is allowed to work as any professional except a Sportsperson or Sports Coach.
• Applicant can be self-employed with a condition that he/she does not have any employees and hold an equipment not more than £5000 for the business and does not carry own premised except his/her home.

An applicant is allowed to switch to another immigration route such as Skilled Worker Visa and Start Up route before his/her Youth Mobility Scheme visa (T5) expires. Within the UK.