UK Expansion Worker & Senior Or Specialist Worker Routes Compared

1. Overview of the UK Expansion Worker and Senior or Specialist Worker Routes

The Global Business Mobility category consists of five types of visas and these are Senior or Specialist Worker, UK Expansion Worker, Graduate Trainee, Service Supplier and Secondment Worker.

This article will compare the routes of UK Expansion Worker and Senior or Specialist Worker. For both routes, the applicants must currently be working for a business linked to the UK sponsor.

The UK Expansion Worker route is suitable for overseas businesses who wish to send their workers who are senior managers or specialist employees to the UK to expand the business. This is a temporary assignment. The UK company must not be trading yet and only has a UK footprint.