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The UK business visitor visa is generally preferred by business travelling employees and their employers since the application process is typically less onerous than other work visa routes. This Visa is a sub-category of the Standard Visitor route. If your application for a Business Visitor Visa is successful, it will be granted for either 2, 5 or 10 years, although you can only visit the UK for up to six months at a time. You might be able to stay for longer if you’re an academic on sabbatical and coming to the UK for research.
A business visitor is a visitor who comes to the UK for a period of up to 6 months to carry out permitted business-related activities. The general business activities that visitors are permitted to conduct include attending meetings, conferences, seminars, interviews, advising and consulting, trouble-shooting, providing training; and sharing skills and knowledge, manufacturing and supply of goods, translators or interpreters, personal assistants and bodyguards, tour group couriers, journalists, artist, entertainer or musician, market researchers and overseas employed drivers. Visitors should further note that except in relation to reasonable expenses to cover travel and subsistence, they should generally receive no payment from a UK source for any activities undertaken in the UK. The appointment must be able to financially support himself for the duration of visit and must have a legal invitation from a legitimate company . As a visitor you must not receive payment from a UK source.
There are very few exceptions to this rule. Under the Rules for visit visas, various activities are expressly prohibited. Business visitors must be aware of these to avoid breaching the conditions of their visa. Business visitors are not permitted to do work for an organisation/business in the UK, establish or run a business as a self-employed person, do a work placement or internship, directly sell to the public and provide goods and services. Shuvagata Dey, a barrister of Lexpert Solicitors in London, told to Daily Dazzling Dawn that, genuineness and credibility as a genuine visitor is the main requirement to get the opportunity.
