• United Kingdom Prospective Entrepreneur
  
• Your proposed business funding must be £50,000 to £200,000 and you must be able to prove that your business is being considered for funding by 1 or more:
• Registered venture capitalist firms regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
• UK entrepreneurial seed-funding competitions endorsed by UK Trade and Investment
• UK government departments

Sponsor letters

How long you can stay:

• You can stay in the UK for up to 6 months.
  
• You can also apply to change (‘switch’) to a Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa anytime within 6 months.

  Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa: This Visa allows you to stay there for 3 years and 4 months. What you can and can’t do in UK…You can:

• Go to meetings, conferences, interviews or site visits

• Go to trade fairs, as long as they’re only for promoting your business and don’t involve selling anything directly to the public

• Arrange deals, trade agreements or contracts

• Speak at a one-off, not-for-profit conference

• Check details of products and buy them

Recruit staff, as long as it’s for the business allowed by your visa

You can’t:

• live in the UK for extended periods in the same category
• work, including selling merchandise
• get public funds
• study
• marry or register a civil partnership, or give notice of marriage or civil partnership
• get private medical treatment
• extend your visa into same category or switch into another category except tier 1 Entrepreneur
• bring in family members (‘dependents’) – they must apply separately