Main requirements and List of documents required to file a Representative of an Overseas Business visa application 

Main requirements of the Representative of an Overseas Business visa: 

• The overseas business or media organisation that the applicant represents must be active and trading outside the UK, with its headquarters and principle place of business remaining outside the UK.

• The applicant must have been recruited and taken on as an employee outside the UK by the business they will represent.

•  The applicant must intend to work full-time as the representative of the overseas business or media organisation and must not intend to undertake work for any other business or engage in business of their own

• The decision maker must be satisfied that the applicant is a genuine Representative of an Overseas Business.

• The decision maker must not have reasonable grounds to believe the business is being established in the UK by the overseas business, or the applicant has been appointed as a representative of the overseas business or media organisation, mainly so the applicant can apply for entry clearance or permission to stay.

• An applicant must be a Sole Representative who is a senior employee of an overseas business, who is assigned to the UK to establish and supervise a branch or subsidiary of an overseas business, where that branch or subsidiary will actively trade in the same type of business as the overseas business.

• The applicant must be a senior employee of the overseas business with the skills, experience and knowledge of the business necessary to undertake the role, with full authority to negotiate and take operational decisions on behalf of the overseas business.

• The applicant must not have a majority stake in, or otherwise own or control a majority of the overseas business they represent, whether that ownership or control is by means of a shareholding, partnership agreement, sole proprietorship or any other arrangement.

Below documents required from the Overseas employer to file the Representative of an Overseas Business Visa application:

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1. A full description of the overseas business’s activities, including details of assets and accounts and the share distribution or ownership for the previous year 

2. A letter which confirms that the overseas business will establish a registered branch or wholly-owned subsidiary in the UK in the same business activity as the overseas business

3. A job description, salary details and contract of employment for the applicant

4. A letter confirming that the applicant is a senior employee of the overseas business with the skills, experience and knowledge of the business necessary to undertake the role, with full authority to negotiate and take operational decisions on behalf of the overseas business.

5. A notarised statement which confirms the applicant will be their sole representative in the UK, that the company has no other active branch, subsidiary or representative in the UK and, that its operations will remain centred overseas.

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