UK Launches New High Potential Individual Route

The High Potential Individual (HPI) route has gone live from 9 am on 30 May 2022, giving eligible individuals a new short-term immigration option for the UK.

The HPI route is intended for recent graduates from top universities to be able to live and work in the UK on an unsponsored basis.

It has a similar grant profile to the Graduate route, offering successful applicants three years' immigration permission if they have a qualification equivalent to a UK PhD, or two years if they have one that is equivalent to a UK Bachelor or Master's degree.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible, an applicant must:

• Be aged 18 or over;

• Have been awarded an academic qualification equivalent to a UK bachelors or UK postgraduate degree within the five years before the date of application (an Ecctis certificate will be needed to show the equivalence of the degree);